Thursday, December 27, 2007

NIH Public Access Mandate Made Law

From: Alliance for Taxpayer Access
www.taxpayeraccess.org

For immediate release
December 26, 2007

Contact:
Jennifer McLennan
jennifer [at] arl [dot] org
(202) 296-2296 ext. 121

PUBLIC ACCESS MANDATE MADE LAW
President Bush signs omnibus appropriations bill,
including National Institutes of Health research access provision


Washington, D.C. – December 26, 2007 – President Bush has signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2007 (H.R. 2764), which includes a provision directing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide the public with open online access to findings from its funded research. This is the first time the U.S. government has mandated public access to research funded by a major agency.

The provision directs the NIH to change its existing Public Access Policy, implemented as a voluntary measure in 2005, so that participation is required for agency-funded investigators. Researchers will now be required to deposit electronic copies of their peer-reviewed manuscripts into the National Library of Medicine’s online archive, PubMed Central. Full texts of the articles will be publicly available and searchable online in PubMed Central no later than 12 months after publication in a journal.

"Facilitated access to new knowledge is key to the rapid advancement of science," said Harold Varmus, president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Nobel Prize Winner. "The tremendous benefits of broad, unfettered access to information are already clear from the Human Genome Project, which has made its DNA sequences immediately and freely available to all via the Internet. Providing widespread access, even with a one-year delay, to the full text of research articles supported by funds from all institutes at the NIH will increase those benefits dramatically."

"Public access to publicly funded research contributes directly to the mission of higher education,” said David Shulenburger, Vice President for Academic Affairs at NASULGC (the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges). “Improved access will enable universities to maximize their own investment in research, and widen the potential for discovery as the results are more readily available for others to build upon.”

“Years of unrelenting commitment and dedication by patient groups and our allies in the research community have at last borne fruit,” said Sharon Terry, President and CEO of Genetic Alliance. “We’re proud of Congress for their unrelenting commitment to ensuring the success of public access to NIH-funded research. As patients, patient advocates, and families, we look forward to having expanded access to the research we need.”

“Congress has just unlocked the taxpayers’ $29 billion investment in NIH,” said Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, a founding member of the ATA). “This policy will directly improve the sharing of scientific findings, the pace of medical advances, and the rate of return on benefits to the taxpayer."

Joseph added, “On behalf of the Alliance for Taxpayer Access, I’d like to thank everyone who worked so hard over the past several years to bring about implementation of this much-needed policy.”

For more information, and a timeline detailing the evolution of the NIH Public Access Policy beginning May 2004, visit the ATA Web site at http://www.taxpayeraccess.org.


The Alliance for Taxpayer Access is a coalition of patient, academic, research, and publishing organizations that supports open public access to the results of federally funded research. The Alliance was formed in 2004 to urge that peer-reviewed articles stemming from taxpayer-funded research become fully accessible and available online at no extra cost to the American public. Details on the ATA may be found at http://www.taxpayeraccess.org.

Jennifer McLennan
Director of Communications
SPARC
(the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)
http://www.arl.org/sparc
(202) 296-2296 ext 121
jennifer@arl.org

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Congress directs EPA to reopen libraries!

Good new from the US! In an omnibus Appropriations Bill, Congress Directs EPA to reopen its libraries!.

From the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility News Release:

Washington, DC — Buried within the omnibus appropriations bill Congress sent this week to President Bush is a Christmas present for the beleaguered library network of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Congress ordered EPA to restore library services across the country and earmarked $3 million for that purpose, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).

Thanks to Fred Stoss on CHMINFO.

Thursday, December 20, 2007

E-LIS Bibliography from InfoDOC

For full-text of the following items, try a search in E-LIS


Bibliography about E-LIS


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Alonso Arévalo, Julio and Barrueco Cruz, José Manuel (2006)
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Anil Kumar, * and Kalyane, V. L. (2004) Bibliographics for the 983
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Coll, Imma (2005) Iniciativas de acceso abierto en Ciencias de la
Información y Documentación : evolución y perspectivas de E-LIS.
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Baiget, Tomas and Peset, Fernanda and Subirats Coll, Imma and
Rodriguez-Gairin, Josep-M and Ferrer, Antonia and Ontalba-y-
Ruiperez, Jose-Antonio (2007) Authority records for author's names
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LIS : Open-Access-Archiv für Literatur zum Informations- und
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per biblioteconomia e scienze dell'informazione. Delivered at
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archiwum publikacji z zakresu bibliotekoznawstwa i informacji
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prints in Library and Information Science.

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Información(19):pp. 1-46.

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De Robbio, Antonella (2004) E-LIS : un archivio aperto
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Gargiulo, Paola (2005) Berlin III Status Report : OA progress in
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Gómez, Nancy D. and Santillan-Aldana, Julio (2007) Archivo E-LIS:
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González Harmon, Rita and Limón González, Erwin Guillermo (2006)
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Hirwade, Mangala and Mahajan, Kartika (2006) E-LIS : a step towards
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Holt, lkay (2006) Uluslararas bir Aç k Ar iv: E-LIS . Delivered at
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(Turkey). Presentation.

Holt, lkay (2005) E-LIS: E-prints in Library and Information
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(Turkey). Presentation.

Leite, Fernando César Lima and Márdero Arellano, Miguel Ángel and
Moreno, Fernanda Passini (2006) Acesso livre a publicações e
repositórios digitais em Ciência da Informação no Brasil .
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Lewandowski, Dirk (2004) E-LIS : E-prints in Library and
Information Science . In Proceedings Internationales Symposium für
Informationswissenschaft (ISI), Chur (Switzerland).

Machovec, George and Morrison, Heather and Whitehead, Heather
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Conference: Issues in Book and Serial Acquisitions, Charleston, SC
(US). Presentation.

Marchitelli, Andrea (2006) Open access per la ricerca e il suo
pubblico . Delivered at L'Open Access tra gli attrezzi di lavoro
dei nuovi bibliotecari del digitale, Venezia Marghera (Italy).
Presentation.

Marchitelli, Andrea (2005) E-LIS: Un archivio aperto internazionale
per la Biblioteconomia e la Scienza dell'Informazione . Delivered
at Earth prints open archive, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e
Vulcanologia -INGV, Roma (Italy). Presentation.

Márdero Arellano, Miguel Ángel (2005) Open access journals and
digital repositories on Library and Information Science In Brazil.
Delivered at First Workshop on Eprints in Library and Information
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McCulloch, Emma (2006) Taking Stock of Open Access: Progress and
Issues.

McKiernan, Gerry (2003) Scholar-based Innovations in Publishing.
Delivered at Association for Library Collections and Technical
Services (ALCTS), Scholarly Communication Discussion Group Panel,
June 23, 2003, Annual Meeting of the American Library Association,
Toronto, Canada, 2003, Toronto, Canda. Presentation.

Medeiros, Norm (2004) A repository of our own: the E-LIS e-prints
archive . OCLC Systems & Services 20(2):pp. 58-60.

Melinš ak Zlodi, Iva and Paveli , Damir (2004) Upravljanje
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Millet Fuster, Mercé (2007) Tendencias actuales en comunicación
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Mornati, Susanna (2003) Istanze "open" nella comunicazione
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Mornati, Susanna and Tajoli, Zeno (2004) AEPIC: una piattaforma di
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Morrison, Heather (2007) Open access as an Unprecedented Public
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Morrison, Heather (2006) Creators of the Commons. Delivered at
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Morrison, Heather (2006) E-LIS : the Open Archive for Library and
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Bernhardt, Beth R. and Daniels, Tim, Eds. Proceedings 26th Annual
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Morrison, Heather (2005) Open access : policy and advocacy .
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Communication (OAI4), Geneva (Switzerland). Presentation.

Morrison, Heather and Subirats Coll, Imma and Medeiros, Norm and De
Robbio, Antonella (2007) E-LIS: the Open Archive for Library and
information Science. The Charleston Advisor 9(1).

Muddiman, Dave and Durrani, Shiraz and Dutch, Martin and Linley,
Rebecca and Pateman, John and Vincent, John (2000) Preface and
acknowledgements, in Muddiman, Dave, Eds. Open to All? : the Public
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Muela-Meza, Zapopan Martín (2006) E-LIS : 4,000 documentos e-prints
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Biblioteca Nacional "José Martí," La Habana, Cuba.

Muela-Meza, Zapopan Martín (2005) The Open Access Movement in Latin
America. A continuation of the historic clashes between the
capitalistic-driven forces against the socializing forces of
information and knowledge sharing. Delivered at First Workshop on
Eprints in Library and Information Science, Geneva (Switzerland).
Presentation.

Paveli , Damir (2005) Open access movement in Croatia through
experience of ELIS. Delivered at First Workshop on Eprints in
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Perea Henze, Irma (2006) Fomento a la lectura: caso Licenciatura en
Ciencias de la Información en la Universidad Autónoma de
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Armendáriz, Maria Antonieta and Sandoval Pineda, Angélica, Eds.
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Peset Mancebo, Fernanda (2006) Iniciativas españolas en OAI-PMH:
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"La Biblioteca Digital : Investigación y docencia en el Espacio
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Peset Mancebo, Fernanda and Barrueco Cruz, José Manuel and Subirats
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Peset Mancebo, Fernanda and Prats, Jordi (2006) Interoperatividad
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visibilidad y la preservación de la producción científica, Zaragoza
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Peset Mancebo, Fernanda and Subirats Coll, Imma and Barrueco Cruz,
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Ranasinghe, W.M. Tharanga Dilruk (2007) E-LIS : an international
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Santillan-Aldana, Julio (2007) Perspectivas sobre la investigación
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Santillan-Aldana, Julio (2006) La Open Archives Initiative en el
ámbito de la bibliotecología y las ciencias de la información : la
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Santillan-Aldana, Julio (2006) Un proyecto de archivos y mentes
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Thanks to Imma Subirats

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Version 70 of Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

Version 70 of Charles Bailey's Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. Thanks, Charles!

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

3,000 Journals in the DOAJ

For Immediate Release December 12, 2007

For more information, contact:
Lars Bjornshauge Lars.Bjornshauge@lub.lu.se
Anna-Lena Johansson anna-lena.johansson@lub.lu.se

NOW THERE ARE 3000 JOURNALS IN THE DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS!

Lund, Sweden – As of today the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ, http://www.doaj.org) contains 3000 open access journals, i.e. quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the web.

We are very pleased to see that the usage of DOAJ is constantly increasing on all parameters. Every month visitors from more than 160 countries are using the service, hundreds of libraries all over the world have included the DOAJ titles in their catalogues and other services, and commercial aggregators are as well benefiting of the service.

The goal of the Directory of Open Access Journals is still to increase the visibility and accessibility of open access scholarly journals, and thereby promote their increased usage and impact. The directory aims to comprehensively cover all open access scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system. Journals in all languages and subject areas are welcome. To maintain the quality of the service we also have to remove titles from DOAJ if they no longer live up to the selection criteria. 96 titles have been removed so far during 2007.

DOAJ is sponsored by the National Library of Sweden (http://www.kb.se), Axiell (http://www.axiell.se/), EBSCO (http://www.ebsco.com/), Proquest CSA (http://www.csa.com/), INASP (http://www.inasp.info/), Swedish Library Association (http://www.biblioteksforeningen.org/)), Lund university (http://www.lub.lu.se/).

In order to create a sustainable financial foundation for the continuing operation and development of DOAJ we launched the DOAJ Membership Program in February 2007. We invite individuals, universities, research centres, libraries, library organisations, library consortia, aggregators and other organisations to contribute. For more information: http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=membership. As of today, DOAJ has got 3 individuals, 51 libraries, 10 library consortia and 1 aggregator as members. Thanks to our members we have been able to employ more staff and thereby maintain a high quality of the service.

We are constantly working on evaluating more journals to be included in the service, therefore we still need support from the community!

Thank you for your interest and support!

Lars Bjornshauge
Anna-Lena Johansson & The DOAJ-team


Congratulations, DOAJ!!!

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Nature Publishing Group will place genomes in the public domain

Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) , UK, has announced that it is introducing a Creative Commons licence for original research articles publishing the primary sequence of an organism's genome for the first time in any ofthe Nature journals.

The Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported licence will enable researchers to freely share and adapt the work, provided the original is attributed and not used for commercial purposes, and that any resulting work is distributed under a similar licence. No publication fees will be applicable, and the articles will be available free of charge. Nature Publishing Group has published first reports on many significant publicly-funded genome sequencing and analysis projects, most notablythe human genome, published in Nature in February 2001. Wherever possible, NPG will apply the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike licence retrospectively to original research articles reporting novel primary genome-wide sequences that have previously been published in Nature journals. Only original research articles publishing the primary sequence of an organism's genome for the first time will be offered to users under the Creative Commons licence.

Molecular Systems Biology, an open access journal published jointly by NPG and the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO), announced in October that it will offer all authors the option of publishing articles under the Creative Commons Attribution -Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported licence. All other articles published by the Nature journals will remain under NPG's existing licensing and copyright agreements. Under these agreements authors of original research articles retain their copyright, giving NPG an exclusive licence-to publish.

Please see NPG's press release dated December 5th, 2007.

E-LIS: Over 7000 Documents!

I just noticed that E-LIS, "the open archive for library and information science" (http://eprints.rclis.org/), now contains over 7,000 documents (to be precise, 7006 as of 9:40 am MST). There are still many items that can and will be included in E-LIS in the future but 7,000 is a pretty hefty figure, I would say, and a milestone worth noting (at least in a short blog entry).

Disclosure: I am a member of the Canadian editorial team for E-LIS.

Sunday, December 02, 2007

December SPARC Open Access Newsletter

Peter Suber just published the December SPARC Open Access Newsletter. Highlights include a summary and explanation of the complex road towards the NIH OA mandate; and, don't miss Peter's predictions for 2008.