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March 31, 2005
Open Access information site
In order to keep researchers up to date on the rapidly changing Open Access journal initiative, we have created an OA description page.
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March 10, 2005
links software allows sharing of URLs
links.med.yale.edu is a beta project of the Yale Center for Medical Informatics and the Yale University Library.
links is a group linklog; you can post the links you are reading and look at what other people and groups of people are reading on the web here. Anyone at Yale (valid netid required) can get an account simply by signing in through the Yale Authentication Service (use the link at right). Once you have an account, use the bookmarklet to add your own links.
links lets anyone create and join groups here too. Groups are sets of people with some shared interest: a course project team, a research unit, or some friends, whatever you want. Both your own account and groups you join can be made private, so nobody but you (if a private account) or your fellow group members (if a private group) can see your links.
Once you're set up and saving your links here, you can syndicate your own recent links or your group links using RSS, or export your whole set of personal links to a number of formats for use in other systems. See the docs for more details about how to do this.
Our goal is to make links an extremely useful and easy way to share information or just keep notes for yourself. Over the next few months we will be working to improve how links can keep more detailed information about your links, such as bibliographic fields you for journal articles.
links is a beta project for the 2004-2005 academic year; we hope it will be helpful during this beta phase, and we would like to hear from you about what we might do to improve it. Use the contact page above to let us know what you think.
Access is at http://links.med.yale.edu/
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March 07, 2005
ACS and open access
The NIH encourages authors whose work it funds to submit their peer-reviewed manuscripts to PubMed Central, the agency's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. ACS has decided to take on the task of submission to PubMed Central on behalf of its authors, according to Robert D. Bovenschulte, president of the society's Publications Division. ACS will authorize PubMed Central to make the authors' versions of unedited manuscripts available to the public 12 months after the edited, final articles are published by ACS.
ACS's second policy experiment may have even more far-reaching consequences. ACS authors already had the right to distribute up to 50 free digital reprints by directing interested readers to a unique ACS website address for their final published articles. Now ACS will allow unlimited free access to published articles via these same author-directe online links by eliminating the limit one year after publication.'
For additional info see
http://www.chemistry.org/
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