Hardin Scholarly Communication News - April 2007
Hardin Scholarly Communication News - April 2007
A Newsletter for the Health Sciences Campus at the University of Iowa
April 2007 | Issue 2.07
Hardin Scholarly Communication News brings together a variety of topics that affect the current system of scholarly communication, with emphasis on new developments, open access and alternative publishing models in the health sciences. This newsletter aims to reflect the interests of its readers so please forward comments, suggestions and entries to include to karen-fischer@uiowa.edu. Subscribers will also receive our newsletter Hardin News.
Table of Contents:
Petition for Public Access to Publicly Funded Research in the United States
Study Shows that Scientists are Still Leary of Publishing in Open Access Journals
Fired editors launch Open Medicine
Non-profit publishers oppose govt. mandates for scientific publishing
Agencies join forces to share data
Google helps terabyte data swaps
NIH Director believes an OA mandate is now necessary
Publishers’ Group Reportedly Hires P.R. Firm to Counter Push for Free Access to Research Results
Evaluating the influence of scholarly journals
University of California Libraries Announce Pursuit of Value-based Journal Prices
Hughes Institute’s Deal With Elsevier Will Open Up Access to Its Researchers’ Work
American Society for Cell Biology: support for free access to research
Open Access to Research Is in the Public Interest - PLoS editorial
