Hardin Scholarly Communication News - 6/27/06
A Newsletter for the Health Sciences Campus at the University of Iowa
June 27, 2006
Issue 3.06
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
U of Iowa grad student resolution on scholarly publishing
What does Reed Elsevier lobby for?
PLoS raises its processing fees
Call for an OA database on resistance to antimalaria drugs
Science journals artfully try to boost their rankings
Nature peer review trial and debate
New ALPSP survey of online subscription journals
New free database on drugs and lactation
Are scholarly publishers ready for the future?
Profile of Harold Varmus
PLoS Medicine editorial on impact factors
Nine interviews on open access
Elsevier offers OA hybrid journals
Cancer-patient advocacy group joins Alliance for Taxpayer Access
Nature article on PLoS finances
Comments on Declan Butler’s story on PLoS
More on Nature’s coverage of PLoS’ finances
BioOne announces journal preservation agreement with Portico
PLoS to launch PLoS ONE, an OA database
The CURES Act and FRPAA
Librarians educating faculty about OA issues
Four more BioMed Central journal accepted for impact factor tracking
New hybrid OA journal on nanotechnology
Forthcoming OA journal on medical education
