What better way to celebrate the last day of April than with another release of new features? (Yes, I can think of a few too, but you’ve got to be careful what you say on these blogs – you never know who might be reading). Today brings to new enhancements to Open Repository. The… Read more »
One of Open Repository’s most useful additions has been the ability to automatically retrieve metadata from PubMed given a PubMed ID. In the last couple of days, this integration has been taken a little further. Now, when submitting an item, if you have used a PubMed identifier, on reaching the ‘Upload a file’ screen the… Read more »
No, I know I’m clearly not referring to the number of blog posts recently (unless the answer is very few, very slowly). So, what’s been happening in Open Repository land? Well, after a very busy couple of days with the DSpace User Group sessions (the presentations from which are now online), we’ve been hard at… Read more »
We are delighted to announce that Thomson Scientific recently accepted the following BioMed Central journals for indexing: BMC Veterinary Research Cardiovascular Ultrasound Frontiers in Zoology Neural Development Nutrition Journal Having been accepted for tracking, all five journals are now on course to receive an Impact Factor. Inclusion of these titles in Thomson Scientific is indicative… Read more »
With effect from April 7th 2008, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy requires all peer-reviewed articles resulting from research carried out with NIH funding to be deposited in the PubMed Central archive, and to be made freely available within at most 12 months of publication. If you are an NIH grantee… Read more »
The Winter 2008 issue of the US National Academy of Science’s publication Issues in Science and Technology focuses on the developing world, and includes the following article outlining the potential benefits of open access to the scientific and medical literature for researchers (and others) in developing countries. Matthew J. Cockerill and Bart G.J. Knols, Open… Read more »
Having survived Microsoft’s hospitality yesterday (and they were extremely hospitable, hence the reason most of those that were there are struggling), I am back at the campus of Southampton University (this time with Peter and Dominic in tow) for the formal start of Open Repositories 2008. Today’s sessions started with an very interesting keynote presentation… Read more »