Fostering open-access in the research community
Open access ‘opens up a new path of communication between researchers and citizens that will contribute to relocating science and scholarship within our societies,’…
April/May 2007
Biomedical archive is first step towards national hub
UK funders of biomedical and health research increasingly require that peer-reviewed articles arising from research they fund become freely available to maximise their impact.…
‘OA creates new opportunities’
For many years, publishers, scientists, academics, librarians, funders and government officials have debated the value of greater public access to the results of scientific…
Revolutionising background research
It’s the middle of the night. A researcher can’t sleep for thinking about her research. She is presenting her latest findings to her colleagues…
Semantic enrichment boosts information retrieval
At the beginning of February 2007, RSC Publishing launched the first phase of its Project Prospect and, in doing so, became the first primary…
The repository jigsaw
For many years, physicists have been using the disciplinary archive arXiv.org to deposit preprints and postprints of their research articles. In 2000, a small…
Electronic access boosts power of reference book
For nearly 100 years the Houben-Weyl series, recently renamed Science of Synthesis, has provided a key source of methodology information to organic chemists. Traditionally,…
Bentham announces OA growth strategy
Bentham Science plans to launch over 300 open-access journals during 2007 with the first 100 journals being launched by May 2007. The journals, collectively…
Encouraging innovation
How did Hindawi Publishing come about?Nagwa Abdel-Mottaleb (my wife and cofounder of Hindawi) and I were graduate students in the USA from 1992 to…