Self-motivated vs. mandated archiving
My post last week about citation rates of mandated vs. self-selected Open Accessfulfills resulted in an interesting discussion thanks to...
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Having an impact (factor) and other stories from Gregory Petsko
Biologist Gregory Petsko has written a monthly column for the journal Genome Biology since the journal launched in 2000. To mark the 10th anniversary of the column and the journal, Genome Biology created an eBook (iPad/...
Helping researchers create scholarly content
Two weeks ago I gave a presentation at the STM Annual Conference 2010 in Frankfurt (STM is the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers). I told the audience that publishers could do a much...
Start Open Access Week with Kick-Off Video
Find out more at the Open Access Week website. And watch this blog for another Open Access story later today....
New in PLoS ONE: Citation rates of self-selected vs. mandated Open Access
PLoS ONE today published a paper very relevant to Open Access Week (which started today): Gargouri Y, Hajjem C, Larivière V, Gingras Y, Carr L, Brody T, Harnad S. Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation...
In which I suggest a preprint archive for clinical trials
The ArXiv preprint archive for research articles in physics, mathematics, computer science and related disciplines was initiated by Paul Ginsparg...