This page contains First Author* guides providing an overview of the background, current situation, and possible future directions of the main debates covered by the site. Links are provided to key sites in each area and to discursive articles on each topic. The language section provides overviews of guides to fluent scientific composition, journal submission requirements, and recommends top style manuals. Use the links on the right-hand side of the page to locate links and downloads by issue.
Links
*Nature’s AOP policy:
www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/about.html
*Netprint's list of journals that will accept papers previously published on preprint servers: clinmed.netprints.org/misc/policies.shtml
*Romeo; a SHERPA-funded E-print search for journals that have agreed to publish work that has previously been self-archived: http://romeo.eprints.org
*The Eprints Handbook. A guide to self-archiving from the Open Society Intitute: http://www.eprints.org/documentation/handbook/
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Research and Information
*Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers. The Facts About Open Access. Research by Kaufman-Wills Group LLC. October 2005: http://www.alpsp.org/publications/FAOAcompleteREV.pdf: A comparison of the production costs and quality of open access and traditional journals.
*Cooperative Commons: a forum promoting web-based collaboration, through open-access, blogging and peer-to-peer networks http://www.cooperationcommons.com/cooperation-commons
*International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications: www.inasp.org
*Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC): www.jisc.ac.uk
*Open Access Evangelism: The blog of Steven Harnard, a leading figure in the open access movement: http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?
*Open Access News blog: Peter Suber's blog, updated daily: www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html
*Open Access Overview: introduction to OA for those who are new to the concept: www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm
*Open and Shut: Richard Poydner's blog covering the development of the open access debate: http://poynder.blogspot.com/
*The Open Archives Initiative:
www.openarchives.org
*Open Access Bibliography: A book that combines an overview of open access concepts with around 1,300 sources from 1999-2004 that provide an insight into the aims and development of the open access movement: Freely downloadable from: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/oab/oab.htm
*Open Access Webliography: a collection of links to websites covering a broad range of issues related to open access: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/cwb/oaw.htm
*The Open Society Institute's Information Program: www.soros.org/initiatives/information/about
*SPARC Open Access Newsletter: Monthly newsletter from SPARC by Peter Suber: www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm
*Peter Suber's work on Open Access: www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/oawritings.htm
*Timeline of the open access movement: Peter Suber's chronology of the landmark events: www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm
*Conferences and workshops related to the open access movement: Peter Suber's list of past and future conferences, updated almost daily: www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/conf.htm
*What you can do to help the cause of open access Peter Suber's list of what individuals and institutions can do to support the open access movement: www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/do.htm
*'There is no Open Source Community'. An article by John Mark Walker on the economics driving the open source movement.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/01/12/no_oss_community.html?page=1
Archives and Institutional Repositories
*The Consortium of Research Libraries (CURL) funds a range of repositories and archiving programs in the UK: www.curl.ac.uk/projects/index.htm
*Cyclades - an example of an open archive project: www.ercim.org/cyclades/index.html
*DLib: The internet journal devoted to digital library technology:
www.dlib.org
*Highwire Press: division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free, full-text, peer-reviewed content, with 885 journals and 1,075,014 free, full-text articles online: highwire.stanford.edu
*Open DOAR: A directory of open access repositories, currently under development:
www.opendoar.org
*SHERPA: A JISc and CURL-funded project focusing developing institutional repositories:
www.sherpa.ac.uk
Open Access Journals, Publishers and Search Engines
*BioMed Central; open access publishers:
www.biomedcentral.com/home
*The Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works: www.creativecommons.org. The Science Creative Commons provides more targeted tools and licenses for scientific information.
*DOAJ; a directory of open access journals: www.doaj.org
*Nixon, William J. "DAEDALUS: Freeing Scholarly Communication at the University of Glasgow", Ariadne Issue 34 (2003): An article by one of the founders of Southampton’s open archive, Daedalus:
www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue34/nixon
*OAIster; an open access search engine:
www.oaister.org
*OpenScience: a project is dedicated to writing and releasing free and Open Source scientific software. http://www.openscience.org/blog/?page_id=44
*Pinfield, Stephen, Gardner,Mike and MacColl, John. "Setting up an institutional e-print archive" Ariadne Issue 31 (2003):
www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue31/eprint-archives/intro.html
*Public Library of Science: The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource:
www.publiclibraryofscience.org
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*Nature's blogs: Homepage for Nature's growing collection of blogs: http://www.nature.com/blogs/index.html
*ScienceBlogs: A collection of blogs from different scientific disciplines.
http://scienceblogs.com/main/about/
*Recherchen blog: A German language weblog of information professionals and reports about search engines, databases, services of libraries, bibliometrics http://recherchenblog.ch
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The Impact Factor and alternatives
*ISI’s guide to using the Impact Factor:
www.isinet.com
*One of the creators of the Impact Factor, Eugene Garfield’s library of publications on the subect: www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/impactfactor.html
*Cite Seer - a searchable database of publications in the computer and physical sciences with links to the citations:
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/
*Science Watch’s Hottest Journals of the Millennium (so far) which ranks journals in the various subject areas according to their citations between 1999 and 2004 excluding review articles:
www.sciencewatch.com/jan-feb2005/sw_jan-feb2005_page1.htm
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*JAMA’s Fifth International conference on Peer Review:
www.ama-assn.org/public/peer/peerhome.htm Abstracts now available.
The full text of articles from the fourth conference are available:
www.ama-assn.org/public/peer/prc_program2001.htm
*Peer Review and the acceptance of new scientific ideas; an overview of the system of peer review with analysis of its efficacy and an enquiry into how to raise public awareness. 'Sense About Science' Working Party (London, 2004) www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/PDF/peerReview.pdf
*Sumner, Tamara and Buckingham Shum, Simon. Open Peer Review & Argumentation: Loosening the Paper Chains on Journals. Ariadne, 5, 1996:
www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue5/jime
*A discussive article on online peer review: Roberts, Peter. Scholarly Publishing, Peer Review and the Internet. First Monday, 4, 1999: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_4/proberts/index.html
*Stephen Harnad points out the reduced costs of online peer review: Harnad, S. The Invisible Hand of Peer Review:
www.exploit-lib.org/issue5/peer-review
*Another critique of peer review from Frank Tippler: Tippler, F. "Refereed Journals: Do They Insure Quality or Enforce Orthodoxy?" ISCID, 2003:
www.iscid.org/boards/ubb-get_topic-f-10-t-000059.html
*A final attack on the peer review system: Engber, D. "Quality Control
The case against peer review." Medical Monitor, 2005:
www.slate.com/id/2116244
*T. Abate surveys tests of the peer review system and interviews experienced peer reviewers: Abate, T. "What's the verdict on peer review?" 21st Century, Issue 1:
www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-1.1/peer.htm
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*Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) - UK committee exploring issues such as fabrication of data, conflict of interest etc: www.publicationethics.org.uk
*International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) - policy on sponsorship, authorship and accountability - also policies on peer review, editorial freedom and integrity, conflict of interest, industry support, internet publishing and other related issues:
www.icmje.org/sponsor.htm
*Nuffield Council on BioEthics - discussive articles and guidelines on topics such as the human genome project, AIDS/HIV etc.:
www.icmje.org/sponsor.htm
*World Association of Medical Editors - publication ethics resources - articles, examples, facility to put questions to panal of expert editors and links to other sites:
www.wame.org/ethics.htm
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*BLAST:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST
*GenBank:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Nucleotide&itool=toolbar
*Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com/
*Google Scholar Blog: a blog from Dean Guistani focusing on searching databases for medical information: http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/googlescholar/
*HubMed: An alternative interface for PubMed:
www.hubmed.org/
*INSDC: The International Nucleotide Sequence Databases (INSD) have been developed and maintained collaboratively between DDBJ , EMBL, and GenBank for over 18 years. INSDC provides unified policy statements and a link to each database:
www.insdc.org/
*ISI web of science journal search: scientific.thomson.com/mjl/
*MedBioWorld - links to journals (majority are US) with various search facilities for articles and citations and a very good collection of links to newsgroups, dictionaries, and research and writing tools:
www.medbioworld.com/index.html
*One Entry to Research: critical assessment of Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar. Updated by Lars Iselid, Umeå University Library, to document a Swedish BIBSAM-project.
http://oneentry.wordpress.com/
*PubCrawler: A service delivering updates from the PubMed and Genbank databases to match user-specified keywords. The updates can be delievered to your computer, a remote server, or by email:
pubcrawler.gen.tcd.ie
*PubMed: The NLM database:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed
*Thomson's searchable databases of drug information, patient care notes, and hospital management practises:
http://www.thomson.com/healthcare/healthcare_pharma_biotech.jsp
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Web referencing and social bookmarking
*Cite-U-Like: a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise references to academic papers:
www.citeulike.org/
*del.icio.us: the most popular social bookmarking site: http://del.icio.us/
*Connotea: Nature's freely available web referencing tool:
www.connotea.org/about
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*Davidson, Lloyd A. and Douglas, Kimberley. Promise and Problems for Scholarly Publishing. Journal of Electronic Publishing. 1998: 4; 2:
www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-02/davidson.html
*The International DOI Foundation:
www.doi.org
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*Coalition for Networked Information:
www.cni.org
*Crossref:
www.crossref.org
*RefChecker: a program for verifying the accuracy of citations:
www.goodcitations.com
*Rapple, Charlie. After the Gold Rush: the Golden Age of Reference Linking. Learned Publishing (2004)17, 299–304:
titania.ingentaconnect.com/vl=2495783/cl=56/nw=1/fm=docpdf/rpsv/cw/alpsp/09531513/v17n4/s6/p299
*SFX: the reference link server developed by Ex Libris:
www.sfxit.com
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*Google Maps Mania: An unofficial blog tracking websites, mashups and tools making use of Google Maps: http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2006/04/fidelity-labs-shows-off-2-new-google.html
*Museum of Modern Betas: A rating system for popular betas, based on the number of bookmarks in del.icio.us.: http://momb.socio-kybernetics.net/blog/popular-betas-march-2006
*Nascent, Nature's blog on web technology and science: http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/
*Semantic Web Starting Point: A blog with links to semantic web tools, tutorials, and discussion:
http://dannyayers.com/archives/2005/10/03/semantic-web-starting-points/
*Research Buzz: almost daily updates on new web-based research tools: http://www.researchbuzz.com
*Robin Good's blog for communications professionals with some useful links: http://www.masternewmedia.org/index.html
*TechCrunch: reviews of the latest web 2.0 technology: http://www.techcrunch.com
*TechMemerandum: up-to-the-minute technoical news from a variety of sources: http://www.techcrunch.com/
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*Paul Miller. 'Web 2.0: Building the New Library'. Ariadne, Issue 45, October 2005: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/miller/#6. A good overview of the landscape of Internet 2, described as 'an attitude not a technology'.
Internet Journals about Publishing
*Ariadne, a newsletter published by JISC and UKOLN focusing on digital libraries and repositories: www.ariadne.ac.uk
*International Journal of Internet Science: http://www.ijis.net/ - an open-access journal examining all aspects of web research and publishing.
*Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP) - A US based journal discussing issues in electronic writing and publishing, about to be re-launched:
www.press.umich.edu/jep/08-01/SPOannouncement.html
*Learned Publishing, the journal of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (pre-2005 issues freely available): www.alpsp.org.uk/journal.htm
*Scholarly Publishing and Resource Coalition (SPARC) publications: the Academic Resource Coalition (ARL)'s project SPARC publishes Open Access News, on developments in Open Access and E-News and SPARC activites:
www.arl.org/sparc/pubs/index.html
*Science Editor - the Publication of the Council of Science Editors (members only)
www.councilscienceeditors.org/publications/cbeviews.cfm
*Society for Scholarly Publishing: articles, news and links on issues in academic publishing:
http://sspnet.org
*Technical Communication Online: The journal of the Society for Technical Communication (pay per view):
www.techcomm-online.org/
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Examples from major journals:
*Cell:
www.cell.com/misc/page?page=authors
*Nature:
www.nature.com/nature/submit/index.html
*Lancet:
www.thelancet.com/authors
*The Journal of Neuroscience: www.jneurosci.org/misc/itoa.shtml?ck=nck
General rules
*Guide to Uniform Requirements for Submission to Biomedical Journals from the International Committee of Medical
Journal Editors (ICMJE):
www.icmje.org/
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*Google glossary - how to retrieve definitions from web searches:
www.googleguide.com/glossary.html
*Merriam-Webster - searchable subscription-based dictionaries and thesaurus:
www.m-w.com/home.htm
*Online Medical Dictionary:
cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd
*Oxford Reference Online:
www.oxfordreference.com/pub/views/home.html
*Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
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*A comprehensive and amusing searchable directory of differences in American and British spelling and meaning:
www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionary/
*William Struck’s ‘Elements of Style’ - classic US style manual including grammar, spelling, composition and style:
www.bartleby.com
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Structure and Style of Scientific Papers
*LaTeX typesetting system: Guides and download area:
www.latex-project.org/
*The Consort guide to correct structuring of randomised control tests:
www.consort-statement.org/
*Rust, Geoffrey. "Metadata: The Right Approach: An Integrated Model for Descriptive and Rights Metadata in E-commerce" D-Lib Magazine (July/August 1998): Discussion of the DOI in terms of Internet copyright protection: www.dlib.org/dlib/july98/rust/07rust.html#conclusions
*White papers from the DOI foundation:
www.doi.org/publications.html
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