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JISC announces support for govt. recommendations for peer review process changes

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JISC  (Joint Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems Com­mit­tee) in the U.K. is sup­port­ing an open peer review process.  It should be more trans­par­ent and review­ers should be trained.  JISC also rec­om­mends the shar­ing of data in the sci­en­tific com­mu­nity, and there is men­tion in this brief of the Dryad project to facil­i­tate this shar­ing of data in a repos­i­tory.
“The rec­om­men­da­tions came out of a House of Com­mons Sci­ence and Tech­nol­ogy
Com­mit­tee report that also urged that researchers make their sci­en­tific data
pub­licly avail­able, and that review­ers have for­mal training.”

Source: Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, Aug. 2, 2011.

NIH Open Access Policy — SPARC enews

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The Open Access Pol­icy pro­posed by the National Insti­tutes of Health has been made permanent.

To read more about the pol­icy see the entry 

Here is the 1st paragraph:

“Wash­ing­ton, D.C. – March 12, 2009 – Pres­i­dent Obama yes­ter­day signed into law the 2009 Con­sol­i­dated Appro­pri­a­tions Act, which includes a pro­vi­sion mak­ing the National Insti­tutes’ of Health (NIH) Pub­lic Access Pol­icy per­ma­nent. The NIH Revised Pol­icy on Enhanc­ing Pub­lic Access requires eli­gi­ble NIH-funded researchers to deposit elec­tronic copies of their peer-reviewed man­u­scripts into the National Library of Medicine’s online archive, PubMed Cen­tral (PMC). Full texts of the arti­cles are made pub­licly avail­able and search­able online in PMC no later than 12 months after pub­li­ca­tion in a journal.”

Source: the SPARC enews which comes out monthly from The Schol­arly Pub­lish­ing & Aca­d­e­mic Resources Coalition.