The legal disputes following the withdrawal from the market of two drugs for the treatment of pain (the COX-2 inhibitors rofecoxib and valdecoxib) have led to another critical examination of the paper publishing process. I...
The new NIH Public Access policy started this past Monday. Fellow Nature Networker Graham Steel has summarized this week's reaction of the blogosphere. I would like to highlight some of the discussions we had...
I did a little experiment to figure out whether the full-text versions of my last 15 papers (published between 1997-2008) are available online. The result: * 3 papers available for everybody * 10 papers only available...
Starting this week, papers submitted from NIH-funded research have to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after publication. But what is the current situation in Germany, especially mandatory Open Access? The Berlin...
Around Christmas, mandatory open access for NIH-funded research was signed into law: The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them...
Erythropoietin is an effective drug to increase your number of red blood cells. It is primarily used in anemic patients with cancer and on dialysis, but it is also popular with athletes that want to (illegally)...
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