Hardin Scholarly Communication News

A Newsletter for the Health Sciences Campus at the University of Iowa

March 14, 2006
Issue 2.06

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 News@Hardin.

Table of Contents

NIH Proposes New Project and Database to Study Genetic Causes of Disease

The “Impact Factor” Revisited

OA Research Resources from the Wellcome Trust

Survey Points to Increase Author Understanding of NIH Policy

Call for OA to Flu Virus Genome Data

Balancing Openness and Security in Biomedicine

SPARC Partners with Science Commons

A Year in Review - PLoS 2005

Funder Requires Grantees to Share Data Every Two Months

Huge, Growing OA Medical Textbook

Royal Society Open Access Warning

Keeping Online Articles Available

Budget Cuts Threaten Canadian Medical Researchers

Open Access Medical Images

NLM Board of Regents Recommends Strengthening the NIH Policy

BioOne Progress Report

More on strengthening the NIH policy

Open Access Programs web site

In Debate, British MP’s Chastise the Government over its Response to 2004 STM Inquiry

DOAJ Marks 2000th Journal

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