Thursday, 5 April 2012

Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items)

Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items)


Northern Light Introduces Discovery Portals

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 05:41 AM PDT

 
Northern Light Introduces Discovery Portals
newsbreaks.infotoday.com
"According to Northern Light’s CEO, C. David Seuss, a significant content type included in the discovery portal is conference abstracts and poster presentations at scientific conferences. “We spent a couple of years tracking down conference information, which is scattered throughout the web and metatdata is not automatically included.” Plus, when it comes to posters, they convey information by images rather than words. Seuss further commented that the conference abstracts fill a “substantial gap in the literature” since it can be several years before research presented at a conference is published in a peer-reviewed journal. What’s worse, “Controversial research may never be published.” Seuss doesn’t think that open access publishing or the open science movement has changed this...."

Comment on the RCUK draft Policy on Open Access

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 03:40 AM PDT

 
Comment on the RCUK draft Policy on Open Access
Tom Olijhoek
@ccess, (05 Apr 2012)
comments on the recently proposed changes in policy for access to scientific outputs
Posted by tomolijhoek (who is an author) to @ccess oa.new RCUK openaccess on Thu Apr 05 2012 at 10:40 UTC | info | related

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