On 2/22/13, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a memorandum with the subject: Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research. This memorandum from the […]
JH Libraries Open Access Promotion Fund
Way back in October, 2012, during Open Access Week, the Scholarly Communications Group announced an initiative to help JHU authors publish their articles in Open Access journals. Now we need […]
The Best Health Care Business Blogs & Newsletters
There’s no doubt about it. The JHU libraries provide you with an impressive collection of print and e-resources for researching all aspects of health care from a business perspective–tops among […]
Will the Real Dr. Jones Please Stand Up?
Are you tired of searching for yourself in Google Scholar, Scopus, or Academic Search Complete and finding other people who share your family name? This is a serious problem for […]
Why Aren’t All Journals Available Online?
We are always getting questions about why some journals are available online and some are not. Some of the comments from a recent library survey requested that we get “…..all […]
New Things, More Ways: Learning How to Live in the E-Book World
In the tangled world of e-books, there are lots of lessons to be learned. Readers are learning: That an e-book you bought this week may not be available for purchase […]
Why You Should Sign the Open Access Petition
I want you to sign a petition asking the White House to make research articles supported by government funds freely available online. Even though they have reached the magic 25,000 […]
More News! Elsevier and the Research Works Act
There’s been lots of news around and about the scholarly publishing industry lately. I’ve provided some background on the Elsevier boycott as well as why Wikipedia and other sites went […]
eLife: Another Attempt to Change the Scientific Journal
eLife is the newest example of the changes sweeping journal publishing. (It’s so new, it doesn’t have its own website yet.) We’ve already seen: the movement away from print to […]
Background on the Elsevier Boycott
If you’ve heard about the boycott of Elsevier, you may have a few questions about why this is happening. Below is an overview, followed by a boat-load of links. Don’t […]