NCBI Tool for Managing Bibliographies in eRA Commons
Ontology Add-in for MS Word 2007 - Microsoft and Creative Commons recently released an Ontology Add-in that will "enable authors to easily add scientific hyperlinks as semantic annotations, drawn from ontologies, to their documents and research papers".
Author Add-in for PubMed Central - Provides authors of scientific articles with the ability to read and write files from Word 2007 into the XML format used by the National Library of Medicine for archiving articles in PubMed Central.
Creative Commons Add-In - Enables you to embed Creative Commons licenses into Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents.
Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine - Enables you to create a form to attach to a copyright agreement that defines certain rights.
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Open Access Publishing Gains Universities' Support
Recently, five universities, Cornell, Harvard, Dartmouth, Berkeley and MIT signed a compact in support of "the timely establishment of durable mechanisms for underwriting reasonable publication charges for articles written by its faculty and published in fee-based open-access journals." These universities are encouraging other academic institutions to join them in support of a centrally financed system to pay author processing fees to OA publishers.
Please go here to read the Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity.
Reality Bites. Van Orsdel LC, Born K. Library Journal. V 134 No 7 April 15, 2009
In the face of the downturn, libraries and publishers brace for big cuts...Some see in the financial debacle an opportunity to promote more open systems of scholarly exchange, and open access (OA) initiatives are clearly gathering momentum.
Please go here to read the article: Reality Bites.
Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS) - This site covers the "concepts, principles, advantages, approaches and means to achieving" Open Access.
Keep Your Copyrights - This site offers simple-language explanations about copyright and educates authors and other creators about why they might want to retain their copyrights, much like renting out their content to publishers rather than selling their content and no long having ownership rights.
An Introduction to Publication Agreements for Authors - While geared toward legal scholars, health science scholars will find this a useful primer for understanding how to give publishers rights without transferring complete copyright when signing copyright transfer agreements.
Learn about retaining your copyright AND sharing your data and research via open access publishing and technology through Creative Commons and Science Commons
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Consider submitting your research to KUMC’s own institutional repository. Please go to Archie, Digital Collections @ KUMC to learn more.
The digital collection policy for The University of Kansas includes a link to a worldwide list of institutional digital collection policies: Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies
The University's Role in the Dissemination of Research and Scholarship – A Call to Action.
University Research Publishing or Distribution Strategies? by David Shulenburger
A video series about digital repositories was taped at the November 2008 SPARC repositories meeting. They may be shared, commented upon, or downloaded for campus use.
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While the NIH Mandate is being challenged by the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act, this latest bill would broaden access to federally funded research results. Federal Research Public Access Act proposes that 11 other federally funded agencies require its grant recipients to make their manuscripts publically available no later than 6 months after publication.
NIH Mandate
This policy requires investigators to deposit articles stemming from National Institutes of Health funding in PubMed Central. This change may have implications for you as a researcher in regard to author rights along with implications for research institutions.
Fast Facts:
The policy is an important opportunity for faculty and researchers to greatly expand access to NIH-funded research, and to use and build upon this information.
- The National Institutes of Health is the world’s largest funder of non-classified research, with a $29.2 billion budget.
- NIH grant funded research results in 80,000 peer-reviewed articles/year. That’s 200 articles/day.
- The U.S. is the 21st country to mandate open access of publicly funded research
For detailed information, please visit our NIH Public Access Policy page.
Fair Copyright in Research Works Act
Federal Research Public Access Act
Last Updated 7/2/2009
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