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Scientific Reports: a new open access journal from NPG
A new online open access journal from Nature Publishing Group, Scientific Reports, is now live.The journal is a primary research publication covering all areas of the natural sciences.The APC for UK...
View ArticleRoyal Society Medicine Open papers -- now deposited in PMC
Papers published under the Royal Society of Medicine's open access option (RSM Open) are now deposited in PubMed Central and mirrored to UKPMC.The open access option is available to all authors and...
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Leading research organisations announce top-tier, open access journal for...
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust announced today that they are to support a new, top-tier, open access journal for biomedical and life sciences...
View ArticleUKPMC -- now with links to records held in the Centre for Reviews and...
A core strategy of the development of UKPMC has been to help users access, (through a single search interface), a range of relevant information, in addition to peer-reviewed journal articles, that...
View ArticleUKPMC Engagement Manager vacancy
Engagement ManagerUK PubMed CentralBritish LibrarySt Pancras, London43 month fixed term contract£37,561 per annumUK PubMed Central (UKPMC) is a unique, innovative online resource offering free access...
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European Bioinformatics Institute to lead UK PubMed Central
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) has been awarded the contract to run and lead the development of UK PubMed Central (UKPMC), the free online...
View ArticleUKPMC is hiring!
Project Manager for UKPMCWe are looking to recruit an experienced Project Manager to join the Literature Services Team at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) located on the Wellcome Trust...
View ArticleThe Open Access Interviews
In the latest of his Open Access Interviews, freelance journalist Richard Poynder interviews Robert Kiley from the Wellcome Trust about the Trust's policy with regard to paying OA publication fees.
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Mark Patterson named Managing Executive Editor of new open access journal
Dr Mark Patterson, director of publishing at the Public Library of Science (PLoS), has been named managing executive editor of a new open-access research journal that the Howard Hughes Medical...
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Open Biology - a new open access journal
Today is the official launch of the Royal Society's first wholly open access and online journal - Open Biology.The new journal is publishing research in cell biology, developmental and structural...
View ArticleTwo reports from the UK Open Access Implementation Group (OAIG)
Yesterday the UK OAIG released research reporting on the benefits of open access to commercial companies and findings from a JISC Collections consultation on the practicalities of paying for open...
View ArticleEditorial team announced for ‘eLife’, the new open access journal to be...
The senior editorial team is today announced for ‘eLife’, the new top-tier, open access research journal to be launched next year with the support of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max...
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SpringerPlus -- new OA journal from Springer
SpringerPlus, the new Open Access journal from Springer (and based on the PLoS One model) is now accepting manuscripts from all disciplines of science. The journal will accept manuscripts describing...
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Open Access, UKPMC and PubMed: how are we doing?
The graphic above shows articles available in UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) - read-only articles: green; Open Access articles: blue - compared to the number of abstracts in PubMed.For articles published in...
View ArticleIntroducing UKPMC Labs
UKPMC Labs is a new component of the UKPMC website, which will showcase novel applications based on UKPMC content.The first application to be featured on the Labs website is EvidenceFinder, an...
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Citation Sort Order and Navigation
Are you interested in finding highly cited articles? If so then the new features in UKPMC will be of value to you. Search results can now be sorted by the number of times articles have been cited.Each...
View ArticleApril deluge
Last month, the wettest April in the UK since records began, there was also a deluge of articles in the popular press about open access. This is a round-up of some of the articles (and perhaps notable...
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Increasing proportion of UKPMC articles are open access
A previous poston this blog showed how the proportion of open access content in UKPMC was increasing. By open access, we mean "free to read AND free to reuse", at least for non-commercial purposes,...
View ArticleReactions to the Finch report on expanding access
The report of the Working Group chaired by Dame Janet Finch about Expanding Access to Published Research Findings has been published. This recommends a programme of action to enable more people to read...
View ArticleAnnouncing the UK PubMed Central Web Service
A Web Service of UKPMC content has been released, and is available via the following link: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/citexplore/webservice.jsp.The Web Service (version 3.0.1) is SOAP based and gives...
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