Immediate Practical Implication of Houghton Report: Provide Green Open Access Now

2010-02-18 Thread Stevan Harnad
** Apologies for Cross-Posting ** Harnad, S. (2010) The Immediate Practical Implication of the Houghton Report: Provide Green Open Access Now. Prometheus (in press) http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18514/ ABSTRACT: Among the many important implications of Houghton et al’s (2009) timely and

Facing up to fraud - China's exponential research growth could fuel fraud

2010-02-18 Thread Dana Roth
The January 25 issue of Chemistry Industry (issue 2, 2010) has a short article on research fraud which includes a sidebar on the situation in China (see below). This suggests that, contrary to Heather Morrison's suggestion, scholar led open access publishing is not a viable solution. Without

Re: Funder mandated deposit in centralised or subject based repositories

2010-02-18 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 18-Feb-10, at 7:04 AM, Garret McMahon wrote: I have a general query regarding funder requirements that stipulate deposit into a centralised or subject based repository such as PubMed Central. Is anybody meeting such a requirement by developing processes that incorporate the institutional