New Scholarly Kitchen Podcast — Adventures with the FOIA
A new episode of the Scholarly Kitchen podcast is ready. This time, we talk with head chef Kent Anderson about his experience filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
Revisiting: The Price of Posting — PubMed Central Spends Most of Its Budget Handling Author Manuscripts
Revisiting Kent Anderson’s post based on his FOIA request documents show that PubMed Central spends most of its money tagging author manuscripts, and that its stricter rules for NIH authors may double its costs.
PubMed Central Revealed — Reviewing and Interpreting the Findings of a Surprising 2013
As requested, here is a summary of all the things found so far through the FOIA requests regarding PubMed Central — from eLife to BMC to JMLA to conflicts of interest to coverups. It’s quite a fetch.
The Silent Dog — Why Didn't the PubMed Central National Advisory Committee Even Bark?
[…] NAC, which only recently became available, there was no discussion of materials ascertained through a Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA) request, information which showed that the PMC NAC itself was kept in the dark about activities at PMC, and […]
Something's Rotten in Bethesda, Indeed — How PubMed Central Came to Help Launch and Initially Publish eLife
[…] eLife being published through PMC. However, based on emails and documents obtained via an ongoing Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA) request, we now know that the initial request came from eLife, specifically and explicitly wishing to use PMC as […]
Why Were PubMed Central and eLife Discussing PeerJ?
[…] yesterday, sharing information gleaned from reams of printed emails, memos, and presentations generated by a Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA) request I filed in November 2012. Today, I’m going to explain finding something in those 500+ pages that I […]
The Price of Posting — PubMed Central Spends Most of Its Budget Handling Author Manuscripts
New documents obtained via an ongoing FOIA request show that PubMed Central spends most of its money tagging author manuscripts, and that its stricter rules for NIH authors may double its costs.
PubMed Central and eLife — New Documents Reveal More Evidence of Impropriety and Bias
[…] on PMC. After what struck me as unsatisfactory answers and aggressive stone-walling, I filed a Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA) request about a week later. I’ve been receiving documents based on this and other FOIA requests ever since and […]
PubMed Central and F1000 Research — More Signs of Favoritism and Activism, and More Conflicts of Interest
[…] The final 200+ pages of items responsive to an expanded “F1000 Research” portion of my Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA) request show not only that PMC leadership once again violated its stated policies by inviting F1000 Research into PMC, […]
Independence Lost — Taxpayer Funding and Information Access Take a Dark Turn
[…] animal welfare was removed from the US Department of Agriculture site, requiring taxpayers to file Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA) requests to learn what is going on in more than 1,200 labs and more than 6,000 other animal facilities, […]
Link Miser — Why the NLM Links to PubMed Central Versions Directly from PubMed Search Results
[…] Library of Medicine (NLM) justify this design? According to documents recently obtained through an ongoing Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA) request, not very well or clearly — and certainly not openly. This story begins in February 2011, when Janet […]
Are US Taxpayers the Primary Beneficiaries of the NIH Public Access Policy?
[…] the world on the backs of UK taxpayers. And documents recently acquired via my ongoing Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA) requests show that taxpayer subsidy has been a sensitive issue within the NIH, and that it has not been […]
Seeking Acceptance at F1000 Research — Early Problems With Identity and Outsourced Authority
[…] indexed in PubMed? Let’s look at what I recently obtained via the ongoing and expanded Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA) request filed with the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The materials reveal how PMC changed its role relative to […]
The Lens We Look Through — Are We All About Containers or What Goes Into Them?
[…] In emails between PeerJ and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) retrieved via my ongoing Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA) request, PeerJ confidently notes its similarity to other journals that have no editorial leader at their helms — PLoS […]
The eLife Story Continues — Evasions Seem the Best We Can Expect
[…] and NLM have been very aware of it, based on internal emails obtained from a Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA) request. Since the first post last October, there were indications within emails from NIH and NLM employees to librarians […]