Monthly Archives: September 2008

UK PubMed Central catching up with US version

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“Research insti­tu­tions to fur­ther develop the UK PubMed Cen­tral web­site — 18 Sep 2008

Eight lead­ing bio­med­ical research fund­ing organ­i­sa­tions, includ­ing Gov­ern­ment bod­ies, Research Coun­cils and Char­i­ties, have approved fund­ing to fur­ther develop the UK PubMed Cen­tral web­site (www.ukpmc.ac.uk) over the next three years. The devel­op­ment will be car­ried out by the British Library, the Uni­ver­sity of Man­ches­ter and the Euro­pean Mol­e­c­u­lar Biol­ogy Laboratory’s Euro­pean Bioin­for­mat­ics Insti­tute (EMBL-EBI), in close con­sul­ta­tion with the UK’s bio­med­ical and health researchers.

Since being launched in Jan­u­ary 2007, the UKPubMed Cen­tral has expanded to offer 1.3 mil­lion full-text, peer-reviewed research papers through its online dig­i­tal archive. The new and improved fea­tures will include direct links to the 18 mil­lion records cur­rently avail­able on the US ver­sion of PubMed as part of the Euro­pean Bioin­for­mat­ics Institute’s Cit­eX­plore bib­li­o­graphic tool; new ways to extract bio­log­i­cal infor­ma­tion from research papers using text analy­sis and data-mining tools; an easy-to-use, intu­itive inter­face; and access to con­tent not included in tra­di­tional jour­nal lit­er­a­ture — clin­i­cal guide­lines, tech­ni­cal reports and con­fer­ence pro­ceed­ings. These devel­op­ments are pro­jected to sig­nif­i­cantly enhance UK PubMed Central’s acces­si­bil­ity and make it a valu­able first point of call for the UK’s life sci­ences researchers.

UK PubMed Cen­tral is part of a net­work of PubMed Cen­tral (PMC) Inter­na­tional repos­i­to­ries. Based on PMC, the US National Insti­tutes of Health (NIH) free dig­i­tal archive of bio­med­ical and life sci­ences jour­nal lit­er­a­ture, UK PubMed Cen­tral pro­vides a sta­ble, per­ma­nent, and free-to-access online dig­i­tal archive of full-text, peer-reviewed research publications.

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From Knowl­edge­s­peak Newsletter

Science.gov now provides 200 million pages

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Science.gov is a free, inte­grated single-search gate­way to reli­able sci­ence and tech­nol­ogy infor­ma­tion from 17 orga­ni­za­tions within 13 fed­eral sci­ence agen­cies. In this new 5.0 ver­sion,  launched on Sept. 15th, there are 7 addi­tional por­tals or data­bases that quadru­ple its content.  New con­tent includes patents, tox­i­col­ogy data, e-prints from the Dept. of Energy and OSTI, and jour­nal archives from PubMed Cen­tral, and Cancer.gov.

The search engine is improved with clus­ter­ing tech­nol­ogy, and Science.gov now pro­vides links to sci­ence news, the EurekAlert! and Wikipedia. 

“Science.gov is hosted by DOE’s Office of Sci­en­tific and Tech­ni­cal Infor­ma­tion (OSTI), within DOE’s Office of Sci­ence. In addi­tion to DOE, Science.gov is sup­ported by con­tribut­ing mem­bers of the Science.gov Alliance, includ­ing the Depart­ments of Agri­cul­ture, Com­merce, Defense, Edu­ca­tion, Health and Human Ser­vices, and the Inte­rior, the Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency, the Gov­ern­ment Print­ing Office, the Library of Con­gress, the National Aero­nau­tics and Space Admin­is­tra­tion and the National Sci­ence Foun­da­tion, with sup­port from the National Archives and Records Administration.”

From Tim Byrne at osti/gov

 

 

 

Chinese Journals: appeal for open access

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“ Chi­nese sci­en­tist appeals for fund­ing to make Chi­nese jour­nals OA — 05 Sep 2008

Zhu Zuoyan, a recently retired deputy head of the National Sci­ence Foun­da­tion of China (NSFC), has report­edly appealed for fund­ing to make sev­eral Chi­nese jour­nals open access (OA). To boost the country’s sci­en­tific jour­nals, he urged to give pri­or­ity to domes­tic sci­ence publications.

Accord­ing to Zuoyan, government-funded open access jour­nals could be a break­through for sci­ence pub­lish­ing in China. He fur­ther stated that OA jour­nals pri­ori­tise aca­d­e­mic mer­its over com­mer­cial inter­ests. A government-funded open access ini­tia­tive would lessen or elim­i­nate the cost of pub­lish­ing, thereby allow­ing Chi­nese jour­nals to attract more high-quality papers and improve their impact.

Zhu’s remarks come amidst crit­i­cisms that Chi­nese sci­en­tists are pub­lish­ing more in over­seas jour­nals than domes­tic ones. Accord­ing to a study by Wang Bing­sheng, a lead­ing physi­cist and edi­tor of the jour­nal Chi­nese Physics Let­ters, in 2006, over 80 per­cent of Chi­nese physics papers pub­lished in jour­nals, listed in the Sci­ence Cita­tion Index (SCI), were pub­lished in inter­na­tional journals.

Also, it has been observed that sci­ence insti­tu­tions in China often assess the out­puts of their sci­en­tists using the impact fac­tors of the jour­nals where they pub­lish their papers. Many inter­na­tional jour­nals have higher impact fac­tors than domes­tic ones.

This trend among Chi­nese sci­en­tists to pub­lish more in over­seas jour­nals, some say, may endan­ger the exis­tence of the 5,000 sci­en­tific jour­nals pub­lished in China.”

Source: Knowl­edge­s­peak Newsletter.

AuthorChoice — the ACS model for open access publishing

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Links to the jour­nals and descrip­tion of the pro­gram:   http://pubs.acs.org/4authors/authorchoice/articles/index.html

The fol­low­ing edi­to­r­ial was pro­moted  yes­ter­day on the CHMINF listserv –

by Kitty Porter, Steven­son Sci­ence & Engi­neer­ing Library, Van­der­bilt University

Author­Choice: a great way to get your papers read.
LJ Mar­nett — Chem Res Tox­i­col, 2007 — ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Chem Res Tox­i­col. 2007 Sep;20(9):1235–6. Click here to read Author­Choice:
a great way to get your papers read. Mar­nett LJ. Pub­li­ca­tion …
Web Search — All 4 versions

(Bib­li­o­graphic data & links, here, thanks to Google!)

Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Library sub­scribes to all of the Amer­i­can Chem­i­cal Soci­ety jour­nals, and they are all indexed by SciFinder Scholar (Chem­i­cal Abstracts Ser­vice) with full text links where available.