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....
Martin Fenner
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...
Today I started a new blogging network
In the last few weeks I haven’t seen any announcement for a new science blogging network (the last one...
Nature.com iPhone app updated
Earlier this year I wrote about the Nature.com iPhone application that was released in February. Two weeks ago the app was updated with the following changes: * Access to abstracts from additional journals: Nature Genetics, Nature...
Survey asks for feedback about ORCID unique researcher identifier
The ORCID initiative for unique researcher identifiers yesterday started a survey that everybody interested in ORCID should fill out. The...