The latest impact factors (for 2007) have just been released from Thomson Reuters. They are as follows: PLoS Biology – 13.5 PLoS…
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Open Access 2007 Impact factors for PLoS Journals
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PLOS ONE A new Managing Editor for PLoS ONE
Pete Binfield joined PLoS this week as the Managing Editor for PLoS ONE. Pete’s originally a physical scientist, and obtained a PhD…
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Publishing PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics and PLoS Pathogens forge ahead
PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics and PLoS Pathogens were launched in the Summer of 2005, and are now entering a new phase…
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Open Access Open access mandates from the National Institutes of Health and the European Research Council
On January 11th, the NIH announced their new public access policy, which has now been strengthened to a mandate as required by…
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Open Access Public Access to Research Funded by National Institutes of Health – Now Law
On Dec 26th, 2007, President Bush signed the Bill that requires all NIH-funded research to be made available to the public. This…
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Publishing Roll Credits: Sometimes the Authorship Byline Isn’t Enough. Guest Blog by Michael Molla and Tim Gardner.
Concept: Michael Molla (1) and Tim Gardner (2) Writer: M. Molla Editor: T. Gardner Readers: Jeff Hasty (3) Jeremiah Faith (4) (1)…
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Publishing Bringing Peer Review Out of the Shadows
An interesting collection of reader comments has accumulated in response to the PLoS Biology article by Hauser and Fehr, entitled “An incentive…
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Publishing Mandate for public access to NIH-funded research has taken a further step towards becoming law.
We are delighted that U.S. Senate has just passed the Labor-HHS appropriations bill containing the provision to mandate public access to NIH-funded…
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Publishing 2006 impact factors for PLoS journals
The 2006 impact factors have just been released by Thompson ISI. The first two PLoS journals continue to perform very well: 14.1…
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Open Access Paying for open access publishing – a role for institutions
Nottingham University has recently established a fund of £20,000 to help researchers pay open access publishing fees. Although £20,000 doesn’t sound like…
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Open Access A trio of open access policies from UK funders
Over the past week or so, three major funding agencies in the UK have announced their policies on open access. The Department…
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Publishing US Petition for Public Access to Research
Momentum for public access to publicly-funded research was boosted last month with the celebration of a National Day of Action by students…