Publishers oppose government mandates
A coalition of 75 nonprofit publishers has made a statement opposing any legislation that would 'abruptly end a publishing system that has nurtured independent…
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EC outlines information-access plans
The European Commission has revealed how it intends to help increase and improve access to and dissemination of scientific information.
Open-access petition presented to EC
The petition calling on the European Commission to adopt polices to guarantee free public access to research results has been delivered to the EU…
Over 15,000 sign open-access petition
The petition urging the European Commission to support open access has attracted over 15,000 signatories in its first two weeks.
Final versions carry little weight with librarians
Information professionals are satisfied to offer their researchers anything that has been peer-reviewed, according to a recent study.
Global science gateway formed
The US Department of Energy and the British Library have teamed up to make international science information resources accessible via a single internet portal.
Thomson provides data for research trends study
Thomson Scientific is supplying journal literature information to The Patent Board for a study of scientific research trends on behalf of the US National…
European Commission asked to support open access
A group of European organisations are calling on the European Commission to support public access to the output of EC-funded research shortly after publication.
Scientists are reluctant to join in with open peer review
Nature’s authors and readers are reluctant to participate in an open peer-review process, according to a recent experiment carried out by the journal.
New developments put pressure on search engines
As Google and its rivals move into traditional research information territory, they could face challenges of their own. A new type of search engine…
UK PubMed Central is launched
The UK version of the US National Institutes of Health’s open-access biomedical research archive has now been launched.
Search engines have bigger effect on usage than open access
Growth in online usage of Oxford Journal’s Nucleic Acids Research, a journal that went fully open-access in January 2005, is more linked to search…