Comments on: BioMedCentral — The Case in Point for Open Access http://www.infotodayblog.com/2008/12/04/biomedcentral-the-case-in-point-for-open-access/ A Conference Weblog by the Editors of Information Today Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:44:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bryan Vickery http://www.infotodayblog.com/2008/12/04/biomedcentral-the-case-in-point-for-open-access/comment-page-1/#comment-6685 Bryan Vickery Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:55:13 +0000 http://www.infotodayblog.com/?p=1590#comment-6685 Thank you for the mention Dick. As I mentioned to you at Online, there is a way to calculate how open access (publishing) is growing in various subject areas by using PubMed. For more details on the Open Access Quotient see: How open access is your research area? (revisited) http://blogs.openaccesscentral.com/blogs/bmcblog/entry/how_open_access_is_your1 Bryan Thank you for the mention Dick. As I mentioned to you at Online, there is a way to calculate how open access (publishing) is growing in various subject areas by using PubMed.

For more details on the Open Access Quotient see:

How open access is your research area? (revisited)
http://blogs.openaccesscentral.com/blogs/bmcblog/entry/how_open_access_is_your1

Bryan

]]> By: Stevan Harnad http://www.infotodayblog.com/2008/12/04/biomedcentral-the-case-in-point-for-open-access/comment-page-1/#comment-6676 Stevan Harnad Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:20:59 +0000 http://www.infotodayblog.com/?p=1590#comment-6676 BMC's success and acquisition by Springer may be the case in point for Open Access Publishing, but (contrary to your headline) not for Open Access itself, which is not the same thing as Open Access Publishing... See: "Please Don't Conflate Green and Gold OA" http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/485-guid.html BMC’s success and acquisition by Springer may be the case in point for Open Access Publishing, but (contrary to your headline) not for Open Access itself, which is not the same thing as Open Access Publishing…

See: “Please Don’t Conflate Green and Gold OA”
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/485-guid.html

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