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PubMed Central = PMC

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“US PubMed Cen­tral renamed PMC, adopts new web page design — 06 Aug 2012

PubMed Cen­tral, the repos­i­tory of the US’ National Insti­tutes of Health, has short­ened its name to PMC in a bid to avoid being con­fused with PubMed. It has also gone for a new look and feel, and has been updated to con­form to NCBI’s new stan­dards for page design. The redesign is seen to allow for a cleaner and more uni­form pre­sen­ta­tion across PMC’s site as well as its arti­cle, issue and jour­nal archive pages.

For instance, the jour­nal logo is on the page cen­tre, with addi­tional white space. The nav­i­ga­tion links are designed to be more com­pact while the font colours are more uni­form across the site. The arti­cle pages have also been enhanced by a more com­pact pre­sen­ta­tion for arti­cle front mat­ter, fea­tur­ing links to author infor­ma­tion, arti­cle notes and copy­right and licence information.

The views for tables and fig­ures have been enhanced. Other improve­ments to the new arti­cle page include eas­ier read­abil­ity and nav­i­ga­tion, includ­ing links to the var­i­ous arti­cle for­mats, and to the cor­re­spond­ing arti­cle cita­tion in PubMed as well as to those PubMed cita­tions that are related to the article.

There is also an enhanced look for bib­li­o­graphic cita­tions that are ref­er­enced in the arti­cle. Finally, at the top of each sec­tion of an arti­cle, the “Go to” nav­i­ga­tion links offer a drop down menu that takes the reader to any sec­tion more quickly and eas­ily, whether it’s the Abstract, Intro­duc­tion, Dis­cus­sion, or any oth­ers within the arti­cle page.

Click here”

Source: Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, Aug. 6, 2012

100 Open Access science journals to be launched by Versita in 2012

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Ver­sita Launches Open Access Jour­nal Program

By Theresa Cramer 

From ResourceShelf Newslet­ter No. 558, May 31, 2012 

From the press release:

Aca­d­e­mic pub­lisher Ver­sita announced today the launch of a new pro­gram of Open Access jour­nals. 100 Emerg­ing Sci­ence Jour­nals are being launched in 2012. The program’s focus is on young and rapidly devel­op­ing fields of sci­ence, which have not yet been cov­ered by a des­ig­nated jour­nal. The emerg­ing top­ics have been iden­ti­fied in Life Sci­ences, Chem­istry, Med­i­cine, Physics and Math­e­mat­ics.
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One of the main rea­sons of this out­stand­ing sup­port is the Open Access pub­lish­ing model, which pro­vides free and unlim­ited access to the jour­nal arti­cles for all inter­ested read­ers. In view of Aca­d­e­mic Spring – and with Open Access gain­ing a momen­tum across scholar com­mu­ni­ties world­wide — Ver­sita is not plan­ning any pub­li­ca­tion fees for the first two years.

Read the full release

Petition for Public Access to all Publicly-funded Research

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ASU (Ari­zona State Uni­ver­sity) Libraries have posted a con­cise piece about Open Access to schol­arly research in ” The Library Chan­nel” newslet­ter:  http://lib.asu.edu/librarychannel/2012/05/21/petition/

There is a video and a link to more infor­ma­tion as well as the peti­tion at http://www.whitehouse.gov

Freely share the data and the knowledge!

 

Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) launched by UNESCO

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 Global Open Access Por­tal launched at UNESCO meet — 07 Nov 2011

“The Global Open Access Por­tal (GOAP) was launched at a spe­cial side event organ­ised dur­ing the 36th ses­sion of the UNESCO Gen­eral Con­fer­ence at Paris head­quar­ters. The por­tal is aimed at pre­sent­ing a snap­shot of the sta­tus of open access (OA) to sci­en­tific infor­ma­tion around the world.

For coun­tries that have been more suc­cess­ful in imple­ment­ing OA, the por­tal high­lights crit­i­cal suc­cess fac­tors and aspects of the enabling envi­ron­ment. For coun­tries and regions that are still in the early stages of OA devel­op­ment, it iden­ti­fies key play­ers, poten­tial bar­ri­ers and opportunities.

The por­tal has coun­try reports from over 148 coun­tries with weblinks to over 2,000 initiatives/projects in mem­ber states. It is sup­ported by an exist­ing Com­mu­nity of Prac­tice (CoP) on Open Access on the WSIS Knowl­edge Com­mu­ni­ties Plat­form that has over 1,400 members.

The GOAP, launched together with the revamped Open Train­ing Plat­form (OTP) and the first UNESCO Open Edu­ca­tional Resources (OER) Plat­form, pro­vides the infor­ma­tion for policy-makers to learn about the global OA envi­ron­ment. They can also view their country’s sta­tus, and under­stand where and why OA has been most successful.

Devel­op­ment of the por­tal has been made pos­si­ble with sup­port received from the gov­ern­ments of Colum­bia, Den­mark, Nor­way and the US. The por­tal will be a work in progress, and shall be fur­ther improved with the sup­port received from the com­mu­nity of OA practitioners.

OA is report­edly at the heart of UNESCO’s man­date to pro­vide uni­ver­sal access to infor­ma­tion and knowl­edge. The UNESCO Open Access pro­gramme shall con­tinue to facil­i­tate pol­icy dia­logue in mem­ber states, share knowl­edge and best prac­tices in the field of OA, and build and share local capac­i­ties through North-South and South-South co-operation to build knowl­edge soci­eties for sus­tain­able development.”

Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter (today)

Open Access Coalition

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Today Kansas and 21 other
uni­ver­si­ties and col­leges announced that they’re join­ing forces to form the
Coali­tion of Open Access Pol­icy Insti­tu­tions, or Coapi. The new group will
“col­lab­o­rate and share imple­men­ta­tion strate­gies, and advo­cate on a national
level,” it said in a state­ment. 

 

Read more: http://bit.ly/p8A9eo

Source:  Trevor Dawes, Cir­cu­la­tion Ser­vices Direc­tor, Prince­ton Univ.

Open Access — 1st North American Meeting

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SPARC to host first North Amer­i­can meet­ing on Open Access in 2012

The Schol­arly Pub­lish­ing and Aca­d­e­mic Resources Coali­tion (SPARC) will host its first North Amer­i­can meet­ing on Open Access in 2012. The first of its kind, the event will expand on the suc­cess­ful bien­nial SPARC Dig­i­tal Repos­i­to­ries meet­ing.
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Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter July 27, 2011

Cambridge Journals — Open Access through August 30, 2011

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“ Cam­bridge Jour­nals open access to online con­tent pub­lished dur­ing 2009 and 2010 — 18 Jul 2011

Cam­bridge Jour­nals, a divi­sion of Cam­bridge Uni­ver­sity Press (CUP), UK, is cel­e­brat­ing recent achieve­ments by mak­ing all its online jour­nals con­tent from 2009 and 2010 free for six weeks.

Cam­bridge has enjoyed accel­er­at­ing suc­cess in recent years with increas­ing num­bers of jour­nals pub­lished, improved impact fac­tors and mul­ti­ple enhance­ments made to Cam­bridge Jour­nals Online (CJO). Usage has sig­nif­i­cantly increased with the digi­ti­sa­tion of new and archive con­tent, and more peo­ple are now able to access Cam­bridge Jour­nals than before. Cur­rently over 1.3 mil­lion arti­cles are down­loaded from CJO every month.

To cel­e­brate these suc­cesses, and to reach out to new cus­tomers, Cam­bridge Jour­nals has announced that it is mak­ing all online con­tent pub­lished dur­ing 2009 and 2010 free between July 15 and August 30, 2011.

Dur­ing the trial, the Cam­bridge Jour­nals team will also be look­ing for feed­back to help shape the future of the ser­vice. The CJO web­site is con­tin­u­ally devel­op­ing, informed by con­sul­ta­tion with key cus­tomers in the aca­d­e­mic and library com­mu­ni­ties. Users will be encour­aged to give their feed­back on CJO and con­tent, to ensure the ser­vice keeps on devel­op­ing accord­ing to their needs.”

Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, July 18, 2011

American Physical Society offers Open Access option to authors

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“ APS announces new alter­na­tive for Phys­i­cal Review jour­nal authors to pay article-processing charges — 16 Feb 2011

The Amer­i­can Phys­i­cal Soci­ety has announced that as of Feb­ru­ary 15, 2011, authors in most Phys­i­cal Review jour­nals will have a new alter­na­tive to pay an article-processing charge whereby their accepted man­u­scripts will be avail­able barrier-free and open access on pub­li­ca­tion. These man­u­scripts will be pub­lished under the terms of the Cre­ative Com­mons Attri­bu­tion 3.0 License (CC-BY). The most per­mis­sive of the CC licenses, CC-BY grants authors and oth­ers the right to copy, dis­trib­ute, trans­mit, and adapt the work, pro­vided that proper credit is given. This new alter­na­tive is in addi­tion to tra­di­tional subscription-funded pub­li­ca­tion. Authors may choose one or the other for their accepted papers.

The new article-processing charges, which will cover all costs and pro­vide a sus­tain­able fund­ing model, have been set at $1700 for papers in the Phys­i­cal Review and $2700 for those in Phys­i­cal Review Let­ters. The result­ing open access arti­cles will appear along­side and mixed in with subscription-funded arti­cles, con­vert­ing these jour­nals into ‘hybrid’ open access jour­nals. Rev­enue from the article-processing charges will decrease the need for sub­scrip­tion income and help to keep the APS sub­scrip­tion price-per-article among the low­est of any physics journals.

Also as of Feb­ru­ary 15, Phys­i­cal Review Spe­cial Top­ics — Accel­er­a­tors and Beams (PRST-AB) and Phys­i­cal Review Spe­cial Top­ics — Physics Edu­ca­tion Research (PRST-PER) will have their full archives and all future papers made avail­able under the CC-BY license, thereby con­vert­ing both of these jour­nals to ‘gold’ open access jour­nals. PRST-PER’s publication-charge scheme has been realigned with the new pro­gramme. PRST-AB will con­tinue to be funded by its spon­sors. Finally, APS’s Free to Read pro­gram will be phased out, and all of these papers cov­ered by the CC-BY license.

These devel­op­ments for exist­ing APS jour­nals fol­low the announce­ment in Jan­u­ary of a new jour­nal, Phys­i­cal Review X (PRX), an online-only, fully open access, pri­mary research jour­nal cov­er­ing all of physics and its appli­ca­tions to related fields.”

Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter 2/16/11

Open Access study in Europe shows ~10% of articles published in OA journals

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“ Study of Open Access Pub­lish­ing project presents find­ings of two-year EC funded study on OA pub­lish­ing — 17 Jan 2011

The SOAP (Study of Open Access Pub­lish­ing) project pre­sented the results of its two-year Euro­pean Com­mis­sion (EU) funded exam­i­na­tion of open access pub­lish­ing at an open sym­po­sium on Jan­u­ary 13, 2011, in Berlin, Ger­many. Over the two-year study dura­tion, the SOAP project per­formed a com­pre­hen­sive study of open access jour­nals, pub­lish­ers and busi­ness mod­els, includ­ing analy­sis of pub­lish­ing houses, learned soci­eties and licens­ing along with the over­all sup­ply and demand for open access.

The study sur­veyed over 50,000 researchers for their opin­ions on open-access jour­nals, which make all their papers freely avail­able online and usu­ally charge authors a fee for each pub­lished paper. Accord­ing to the study, while sci­en­tists like open-access papers as read­ers, as authors, they are still skep­ti­cal. The study found over­whelm­ing sup­port for the con­cept, with 89 per­cent of respon­dents stat­ing that open access is ben­e­fi­cial to their field. How­ever, this sup­port did not always trans­late into action, the study noted. While 53 per­cent of respon­dents said they had pub­lished at least one open-access arti­cle, over­all only about 10 per­cent of papers are pub­lished in open access journals.

The study found two main rea­sons as to why researchers do not sub­mit their work to open-access jour­nals. About 40 per­cent said that a lack of fund­ing for author fees was a deter­rent, while 30 per­cent cited a lack of high-quality open-access jour­nals in their field.

Requir­ing authors to make sure the results of their work are freely avail­able has report­edly had only par­tial suc­cess. Robert Kiley, head of dig­i­tal ser­vices at the Well­come Trust’s Well­come Library in Lon­don, said at the sym­po­sium that open-access rates had risen from 12 per­cent to 50 per­cent since the fun­der began requir­ing its grantees to pub­lish in open-access jour­nals or deposit their papers in a freely avail­able repos­i­tory. How­ever, Kiley acknowl­edged that Well­come Trust had not imposed sanc­tions on researchers who failed to comply.

The study also makes it clear that open-access jour­nals are pro­lif­er­at­ing, espe­cially among small pub­lish­ers. It was observed that one-third of open-access papers were pub­lished by the more than 1600 open-access pub­lish­ers that pub­lish only a sin­gle jour­nal. The study also iden­ti­fied 14 ‘large pub­lish­ers’ that pub­lish either more than 50 jour­nals or more than 1000 arti­cles per year. The group accounts for roughly one-third of open-access pub­li­ca­tions, the study noted.”

Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, 1/17/11