I spent a little time yesterday brushing up on good blogging techniques and one of the lessons I’ve been reminded of is to keep the titles of posts relevant. I think this one is up to scratch. So welcome to BioMed Central‘s Open Repository blog. It’s good to get started on the right foot. I… Read more »
Open Access Publishing: Funding Mechanisms and Institutional Collaboration Increasingly, grant funding agencies are stipulating, as a condition of award, that the results of research sponsored by them should be made freely available online or via an institutional archive. Moreover, these agencies are prepared to fund the costs of such publications as part of the grant. … Read more »
Sean Eddy, a member of the editorial board of BMC Bioinformatics, has won the Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Access in the Life Sciences. The award is presented by the Bioinformatics Organization in honour of Benjamin Franklin, "One of the most remarkable men of his time. Scientist, inventor, statesman, he freely and openly shared his… Read more »
As a nicely timed followup to the previous post about Sam’s sponsored run in a BioMed Central T-Shirt, Cancer Research UK today became the most recent of the UK PubMed Central funder group to announce its official open access policy. Like the other UK PMC funders, Cancer Research UK will from June 1st 2007 require… Read more »
On Sunday 24th June I will be running in the Chelmsford Race for Life – a 5 km run. Race For Life is a very important fund raising event that takes place all over the country to raise money for Cancer Research UK. BioMed Central has kindly sponsored me and given me a very dashing… Read more »
The UK Department of Health has been an active supporter of open access to published research, both through NHS England’s BioMed Central membership , and also through the Department’s involvement in UK PubMed Central. It has now released an official policy statement, requiring funding recipients to deposit resulting articles in UKPMC within 6 months of… Read more »
BioMed Central is pleased to announce the appointment of Melissa Norton MD as Editor-in-Chief of the BMC series of open access journals. Melissa has been with BioMed Central since late 2005, serving as Medical Editor of the BMC series. In the newly-created role of Editor-in-Chief, Melissa’s responsibilities encompass all aspects of developing and running the… Read more »
Researchers in Germany can now go to a central DFG-supported website to find information on open access-related issues, ranging from publication strategies and legal aspects to the relevant policies of research institutions such as Max Planck Society and Helmholtz Association. The platform, jointly operated by four leading German universities, offers advice for authors, journal editors… Read more »
It is always interesting to see the underlying principles of open access being applied in areas beyond academic research. A little while ago, in a chapter of Neil Jacobs’ book on open access, I pointed out the parallel with parliamentary and electoral information. The success of theyworkforyou.com, effectively a parliamentary ‘mashup’, demonstrates just how significant… Read more »
Congratulations to Henri Derschum, from the InstMikroBioBW, who left the 17th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) conference in Munich last month with a shiny new iPod nano. The competition was a huge success as hundreds of hopefuls crowded the BioMed Central stand to sign up, some more than once! The BMC… Read more »