The first Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) conference took place in Lund between the 14-16th September 2009.

The full archive (1947 to date) of the British Journal of Cancer -published by NPG on behalf of Cancer Research UK – is now available in UKPMC. Current content is embargoed for 12 months, though articles routed through BJC Open are made available at the time of publication.

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the National Research Council’s Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI), and the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) have announced a three-way partnership to establish PubMed Central Canada (PMC Canada). “PMC Canada is a powerful tool that will help researchers build upon one another’s work and […]

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) – publishers of journals such as Cancer Research and Molecular Cancer Research – have announced the launch of their manuscript deposition service.

UK PubMed Central development partners at the British Library invite life sciences researchers to take part in a short survey on images (takes no more than five minutes). The British Library project team, which manages development activities for UKPMC, and is specifically tasked with identifying additional, hard to find content to add to UKPMC, is […]

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) have announced the development of a licence that will explicitly permit academic reuse of archived author manuscripts. “NPG supports reuse for academic purposes of the content we publish.

The American Society of Hematology – publishers of the journal Blood – have developed a Wellcome-compliant author-pays option. In return for a fee ($2000), ASH will deposit the final version of Wellcome-funded articles directly into PMC, where they will be made freely available at the time of publication.

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (AJTMH) – published by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene – have clarified their author-pays option.

At a poster session at the Open Repositories Conference 2009, Peter Millington (Technical Development Officer st Sherpa) presented data on the number of publishers/journals used by Wellcome-funded authors that offered a Wellcome-compliant OA publishing policy.

This presentation (to run, see below), given at the Research Information Network / Repositories Support Project event on May 29th, 2009, includes some interesting facts and figures about UK PubMed Central as well as a providing a brief outline of some of the development activities being undertaken by the British Library and partners Mimas, the […]

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