Research Works Act threatens public access to literature
See below for an important update to this posting. A bill introduced in the House of Representatives in December 2011 could have enormous consequences for scientific and medical researchers if passed....
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FRPAA proposes public access to all federally-funded research
In opposition to the publishing industry-backed Research Works Act (RWA), a bill was introduced in Congress yesterday to require public access to research articles resulting from funding from federal...
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Achieving an Open Access Policy at UCSF
Updated June 15: The UCSF Faculty voted unanimously to pass the Open Access Policy on May 21. See the full announcement. The UCSF Open Access Policy website is available to guide faculty on the...
View ArticleExpanding Public Access to Research Results
See below for important updates to this posting. An impressive number of open access initiatives have recently come from the federal and California government. These efforts have the potential to...
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PeerJ – Innovating Scholarly Publishing
After only a year of existence, the open access publisher PeerJ has already made a splash in the world of scholarly publishing. PeerJ’s two publications, the academic journal PeerJ and pre-print server...
View ArticleFollowing UCSF’s Lead, UC Adopts an Open Access Policy
On July 24, 2013, the University of California became the largest academic institution to adopt an open access policy. UC’s Academic Council passed the policy, which strives to make all of UC’s...
View ArticleOpen Access and Peer Review
One of the challenges that is often brought up with regards to publishing in open access journals is the perceived low quality of some of these journals and the belief that they are not peer reviewed....
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Elsevier gets Scrutinized for Take-Down Notices
This post was updated on December 21, 2013. When it comes to public relations, the publisher Elsevier seems to be its own worst enemy. They’ve recently issued take-down notices to commercial sites such...
View ArticleAltmetric’s Top 100 Articles of 2016 – check out UCSF!
The company Altmetric, which produces those colorful donut wheel scores you see in UCSF Profiles and many publisher websites, put together this beautiful compilation of the 100 articles with the top...
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UCSF at the OpenCon Conference
OpenCon 2017 brings together leading student and early career academic professionals from around the world to learn, network and advance open access, open data and open education. The UCSF Library is...
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