Hardin Scholarly Communication News

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

September 2006 | Issue 4.06

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 Provost Supports Federal Research Public Access Act
New England Provosts Call for Broader Access to Publicly Funded Research
Rallying Behind Open Access
Three big publishers offer Open Access Options
Report on Oxford Open Experiment
Open access: Implications for Scholarly Publishing and Medical Libraries
Congress Pushes Plan to Make Papers Free
Support for the NIH Public Access Policy
BMC Collects Funder Policies on Open Access
Open Access for the Medical Librarian
Encouraging Society Publishers to Experiment with OA
‘Nature’ Opts for Open Peer-review Systems
The Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance (CBCRA) Provides OA to the Research it Funds
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine – Three Essays on Open Access Issues

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