'Facebook of Science' Seeks to Reshape Peer Review by Colin Macilwain from The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Campus & Library Publishing Services:
Addressing Peer Review Concerns:
Impact Factors:
The following links lead to statements which should answer some of the questions you might have about Open Access (OA) and related issues of scholarly change. Evidence has been collected to give support for these claims, so please take time to explore the citations and links below each explanation. We encourage comments and suggestions as we hope to improve and update this dynamic and changing resource.
accessed on 11/25/2010 from:
http://rcsproject.wordpress.com/oa-answers/
Jottkandt, Sigi. "The Accessibility of Open Access Materials in Libraries" E-LIS (2010) (http://eprints.rclis.org/18766/).
These Databases can be used to find Impact or H Factors. There is more information about Impact Factors and related items such as H-factors, Eigenfactors on the Impact & H Factors page in the Open Access & Open Access Publishing Fund Guide. Impact factors vary greatly by subject area.
FANTASTIC Library Guide created Jennifer Lyon. This guide contains resources and information on NIH's Public Access Policy for peer reviewed articles resulting from NIH funding.
OATP uses social tagging to capture new OA developments comprehensively and in real time. Participants tag new developments using Conotea. The resulting feed is OA, for reading or mashing up with other feeds and online services. The project beta launched on April 16, 2009, and there's a full-length description of it in the SPARC Open Access Newsletter for May 2, 2009.
OPEN ACCESS (OA): Literature is freely available to readers on the Internet.
OPEN SOURCE: Share code by downloading for free and contributing to the improvement of the code.
OPEN EDUCATION: Free access to educational materials, syllabi, reading lists, lectures, etc.
OPEN DATA: Access to raw data to re-use. See Panton Principles.
OPEN SCIENCE: of all scientific processes, including research process, data, and notes, to support credibility and reproducibility
OPEN PEER REVIEW: see “I Hate Your Paper” and the Shakespeare Quarterly Open Peer-Review Experiment
OPEN BOOKS: full text monographs available free of charge.
OPEN NOTEBOOK SCIENCE (ONS): you make all your research freely available—as best you can—to the public, and in real time. “Unlike open access (OA), ONS aims to make raw scientific data (rather than published research) freely available within hours of production, not after the months or years involved in peer review.” See: The Impact of Open Notebook Science.
Announcing Scientific Reports, a new open access
publication
Nature
Publishing Group (NPG) today announces the 2011 launch of Scientific
Reports. An online, open access, peer-reviewed publication, Scientific
Reports will publish research covering the natural sciences - biology,
chemistry, earth sciences and physics. Scientific Reports is
accepting submissions from today, and will publish its first articles in June
2011. More information is available on the Scientific Reports website
(www.nature.com/scientificreports).
BMJ Group launching BMJ Open this Fall 2010
BMJ Open is an open access journal for general medical research. Using a continuous publication model the journal will provide rapid publication for research from any medical discipline or therapeutic area.
Not only will the journal publish traditional full research reports, including small or low-impact studies, but we intend to shed light on all stages of the research process by publishing study protocols, pilot studies and pre-protocols. The journal will also place great emphasis on the importance of data sharing; raw data will be linked to at its repository or hosted online as supplementary material wherever possible.
http://blogs.bmj.com/bmjopen/2010/08/16/bmj-open-accessible-medical-research/
American Physical Society - 08/02/2010
The American Physical Society has announced that it will make all of its online journals available to public libraries. "APS will provide this access at no cost to participating public libraries, as a contribution to public engagement with the ongoing development of scientific understanding." This is the result of an effort to make peer-reviewed journal content available to the public through open-access venues. See the press release for details on obtaining access.
http://www.aps.org/about/pressreleases/journalslibrary.cfm
Nature Publishing launching Scientific Reports an new Open Access publication
"Nature Publishing Group (NPG) today announces the 2011 launch of Scientific Reports. An online, open access, peer-reviewed publication, Scientific Reports will publish research covering the natural sciences - biology, chemistry, earth sciences and physics. Scientific Reports is accepting submissions from today, and will publish its first articles in June 2011. More information is available on the Scientific Reports website (www.nature.com/scientificreports)."