Thomson Scientific launches Citation Impact Forum
Thomson Scientific today announced the launch of its Citation Impact Forum, an online forum promoting scholarly discussion about citation-based research evaluation.
Thomson Scientific today announced the launch of its Citation Impact Forum, an online forum promoting scholarly discussion about citation-based research evaluation.
Publisher bodies believe that the new NIH research publication policy undermines intellectual property rights and does not provide funding to implement the requirements.
Under new law NIH-funded researchers are required to offer their findings free to the public a year after they are published commercially.
Representatives of Subito e.V., scientific libraries, and various international publishers have endorsed a framework agreement within German speaking countries.
Fragile medieval manuscripts detailing the Hundred Years' War between France and England have been digitised by The University of Sheffield and IT experts Tribal.
New copyright legislation for digital publishing is imminent, according the European Information Society Commissioner.
President Bush says that the LHSS Appropriations Act, 2008, which includes the requirement for NIH-funded research to be made open access, is too expensive.
A team of researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland has investigated how false research results can slip through the editing and peer-review processes.
The US Senate has approved a bill that directs the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to require rather than request that the researchers it funds make their results publicly available.
Three trade associations have released a joint statement that sets out conditions for using copyright works where the owners of the material cannot be found.