Volume 10, Issue 3; March 2005
Editor: Jonathan M Goodman
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Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
- The Beilstein Institute has announced the
launch of the first major open access journal for organic chemistry:
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. It will be published by the
Beilstein Institute in co-operation with BioMed Central.
The Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry will
make organic chemistry
research freely available immediately on publication, and
permanently available in the public archives of science. There will be no charge for authors, as the journal will be supported by the Beilstein Institute. A call for papers with full information for authors will be published in May.
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ACS widens access to its journals
- The American Chemical Society
is broadening access to research articles
published in its scholarly journals with two
experimental policies:
The first
policy represents a response to NIH's public access guidelines recently
released by the National Institutes of Health:
"The NIH encourages authors whose work it funds to submit their
peer-reviewed manuscripts to PubMed Central, the agency's free digital
archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature."
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Wellcome Trust requires Open Source publishing
- The Wellcome Trust is a strong supporter of open access publishing, and now proposes to require Wellcome Trust supported publications to be deposited in PubMed Central, or the European PMC once it is established. The Wellcome Trust's recent study showed that an author-pays business model has the opportunity for substantial cost savings over the reader-pays model.
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How did XML begin?
- This interview with Tim Bray, one of the creators of XML, explains how it started in the context of a project to computerise the Oxford English Dictionary. It was necessary to bring SGML to the web, and the interview mentions that XML is more complicated than it needs to be, despite the aim of keeping it simple.
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FEBS Journal
- The European Journal of Biochemistry has been replaced by FEBS Journal from the beginning of 2005. This is one of the journals published by the Federation of European Biochemical Societies.
FEBS, a signatory of DC Principles, has made all
articles published in EJB,
FEBS Journal and FEBS Letters freely available following a 12 month
Embargo. In addition, Nucleic Acids Research has also moved towards an Open Access
publishing model for 2005.
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The World Wide Web Consortium
- The World Wide Web Consortium agrees web standards. However, the Web Hypertext Application Technology working group (WHAT), a collaboration of Web browser manufacturers and interested parties who wish to develop new technologies, is also interested in standards, is proposing a different direction for web forms. The two possible developments are XForms and Web Forms 2.0.
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British Science Language Science Signs
- Online glossaries for science and engineering and the built environment are now available. Art and design has been updated.
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Digital Media Project
- Which is more important: science or music? Music and film distributors are want to protect their commercial interests, but legislation could have an impact on all digital information.
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Burndy Library for the history of science
- The Burndy Library may move from MIT to Pittsburg in 2007.
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Google's word limit
- Google's word limit: Google's word limit has increased from ten to thirty two words, allowing for more complicated queries, which is particularly useful when qualifying search terms with a minus sign preceding other terms to be rejected.
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NIH Open Access Policy
- Some comments on the NIH Open Access Policy.
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New York Public Library Digital Gallery
- The New York Public Library's Digital Gallery contains over quarter of a million digitized images, including some of chemistry and chemists.
© 2005 J M Goodman, Cambridge
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