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Archives: PubMed Central

The Varieties of Lock-in in Scholarly Communications

There are various ways that customers get locked in to services in scholarly communications. These methods are longed for by publishers and disliked by customers, but they naturally emerge as a part of the economy.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Jan 23, 2018
  • 6 Comments

A Confusion of Journals — What Is PubMed Now?

PubMed is found to contain predatory journals and publishers, likely reflecting a long-term and broader problem, which only adds to the confusion about what exactly PubMed represents at this point.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Sep 7, 2017
  • 26 Comments

What Price Progress: The Costs of an Effective Data Publishing Policy

The hidden costs of data availability policies.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jan 13, 2016
  • 8 Comments

PubMed Central Boosts Citations, Study Claims

Researchers claim that PMC boosts citations by 26%. A closer look at the paper reveals serious data and analysis problems. Can we collectively design a better study?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Dec 7, 2015
  • 36 Comments

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.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Apr 8, 2015
  • 44 Comments

U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Announces Public Access Policy

The second public access plan from a US federal funding agency has been announced. Some first impressions…

  • By David Crotty
  • Feb 10, 2015
  • 19 Comments

New US Public Access Legislation Included in Government Funding Bill

The US government’s new appropriations bill contains a public access mandate for research articles funded by some agencies.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jan 16, 2014
  • 31 Comments

Estimating the Adverse Economic Impact of Imposed Embargoes

This is a research report, based on a grant from the American Society of Civil Engineers to explore the potential for adverse economic impact on journals from imposed public access embargoes

  • By David Wojick
  • Jan 7, 2014
  • 34 Comments

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.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Dec 24, 2013
  • 56 Comments

The Silent Dog — Why Didn't the PubMed Central National Advisory Committee Even Bark?

The PMC NAC, facing controversies about its oversight functions and seeing the focus of its oversight embroiled in a public scandal, said nothing about these topics at its latest meeting.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Nov 14, 2013
  • 10 Comments

Should the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) Stop Using PMC As Its Publishing Platform?

Using free government infrastructure that’s not available to everyone else raises questions of fairness, which lead to questions of harm. But who is harmed may be both obvious and subtle.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Oct 30, 2013
  • 18 Comments

Scholarly Kitchen Podcast: Howard Ratner on CHORUS and ORCID

Howard Ratner, Director of Development at CHORUS, brings us up to date on that project and on the ORCID system, which turns one year old today.

  • By Stewart Wills
  • Oct 16, 2013
  • 1 Comment

PubMed Central and eLife — New Documents Reveal More Evidence of Impropriety and Bias

New documents show that the Director of the NCBI was deeply involved in getting eLife launched on PubMed Central, that NLM staff were uneasy about the shortcuts taken to make it happen, and that eLife was largely driving the bus throughout.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Oct 15, 2013
  • 22 Comments

Link Miser — Why the NLM Links to PubMed Central Versions Directly from PubMed Search Results

Why does PubMed preferentially link to PMC versions in its search result lists? Emails from 2011 suggest it’s specifically to generate more traffic to PMC and show off NLM services.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Oct 8, 2013
  • 3 Comments

October 1st 2013: Government Dysfunction Impacts the Dissemination of Scholarly Research

As the US government shuts down, what happens to the scholarly materials it distributes?

  • By David Smith
  • Oct 2, 2013
  • 32 Comments
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