…the National Institutes of Health has established a policy mandating open access to the full text of research results from projects it funds. Conservative estimates have placed at least a quarter of the quality medical research done in the world as funded by NIH grants and contracts. All the material will end up deposited at [...]

There’s more to the open-access movement than financial reasons. Re-analysis of clinical trials recently made open access has confirmed the link between suicidal tendency and paroxetine, a member of the class of antidepressants known as SSRIs. The link had previously been suspected but was difficult to establish because the studies were not readily available. Open [...]

The knowedgable answers from a professional actually implementing an open-source ILS via OSS-4-Lib.

Information professionals usually don’t think of marketing themselves as a big issue. We know are the key to accessing information; we are service- and customer-oriented; we know our business – so, customers will just come to us, right? Unfortunately, we do need to market ourselves – not just to be known, but also to let [...]

The NIH has released its open-access plan, Enhanced Public Access to NIH Research Information (September 3, 2004) for public comment. Excerpts: This notice is to announce and to seek public comments regarding NIH�s plans to facilitate enhanced public access to NIH health related research information. NIH intends to request that its grantees and supported Principal [...]

First, read Users Trump Library Vendors Again! >The Shifted Librarian It’s true libraries have limited resources, but they already have a vendor for their catalog, and that vendor should be the one leading the way.� Libraries must begin demanding these types of services from the vendors. It’s crazy to see users writing code to compensate [...]

OCLC Research Publications Repository contains works produced, sponsored, or submitted by OCLC Research. In general, the works are research-oriented and are in the subject area of library and information science. Many items describe OCLC Research projects, activities, and programs and were originally published by OCLC, while others are from peer-reviewed scholarly journals Peter Scott’s Library [...]

Stephen Downes writes about blogs as educational tools in Educause. I highly recommend you read it for yourself because it’s very well-balanced and insightful. I couldn’t resist including some of my favorite bits below. …the events of September 11 brought home to me the immediacy of blogging. We ran ongoing coverage, submitted via SMS to [...]