The announcement that the Journal of Visualized Experiments – JoVE – has moved from an open access model, to a subscription-based model, has attracted much comment in the blogosphere, as can be seen from the postings at the Nature Network, and the Scholarly Kitchen blogs.

UK PubMed Central is on Twitter at http://twitter.com/UKPubMedCentral – for now just tweeting blog posts and links to UKPMC Funders’ Group-funded articles as they become available in UKPMC.

A learned society has offered the Wellcome Trust an open access, author pays option for researchers who seek publication in their journal. However, the licence they wish to attach to these articles is more restrictive than the Trust would normally require when paying an OA fee.

The Research Information Network and Universities UK have produced a guide [PDF] to provide advice on paying open access publication charges. Recommendations are made for each of the key players involved in the scholarly communication chain – higher education institutions, publishers, funder and authors.

Papers published by the American Chemical Society (ACS) under their Open Choice option are now available in PMC and UKPMC. Currently around 110 papers – drawn from 20 ACS journal titles – are now freely available.

Users of the UK PubMed Central Manuscript Submission System (UKMSS) will soon be able to use a new service – ‘My UKPMC’ – to report on the outcomes of any grant funded by any one of the UKPMC Funders’ Group member organisations.

Each of the eight funders associated with UKPMC has a Funders Home Page from which you can find all papers in UKPMC which are associated with any of these funding bodies. In addition to be able to view these full-text articles, the article metadata can be exported in csv or xml.

As reported by Jennifer McLennan (Association of Research Libraries) on the SPARC-OpenData mailing list: 2009 Consolidated Appropriations Act ensures NIH public access policy will persist Washington, D.C. – March 12, 2009 – President Obama yesterday signed into law the 2009 Consolidated Appropriations Act, which includes a provision making the National Institutes’ of Health (NIH) Public […]

Papers published in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, for which an author-pays fee has been paid, are now flowing directly in PMC. These papers should be mirrored to UKPMC within the next 24 hours.

The American Thoracic Society – publishers of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology and the Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society – have modified their Open Access policy such that it is now fully compliant with the open access grant conditions developed by […]

The British Library – who, in collaboration with MIMAS, and EBI are responsible for managing the UKPMC service on behalf of the UKPMC Funders Group – have been busy over the last few weeks running workshops and other events to begin the task of alerting the life sciences research community (and soliciting their input) to […]