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Barriers to equitable access to quality health information with emphasis on developing countries
This article, published for The Rockefeller Foundation's conference series 'Making the eHealth Connection', assesses the barriers to quality health information in developing countries, which hamper the development of health systems and services. While the Internet has improved access to health...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2008 | EN
Guidelines on science and health communication
These guidelines, produced by the UK Social Issues Research Centre, the UK Royal Society and the Royal Institution of Great Britain, address the issues of health reporting and science reporting on health-related issues such as new drugs and medical technologies. The first section is addressed...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: December 2001 | EN
Reed Elsevier: Statement on Open Access
This is the written evidence given by Britain's largest science and technology publisher to a UK parliamentary inquiry on scientific publications. In the statement, Reed Elsevier defends the traditional 'user-pays' model of scientific publishing. It argues that by introducing an 'author-pays'...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: March 2004 | EN
Nature Publishing Group: Statement on Open Access
This is an extract of a letter from Richard Charkin, chief executive of Macmillan publishers, which was submitted as written evidence to a UK parliamentary inquiry on scientific publications. In the letter, Charkin argues that the 'author-pays' model used by open-access journals "potentially...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: March 2004 | EN
Framing the Issue: Open Access
This is an overview of the open-access movement and its potential, designed for members of the research and academic communities. It highlights the key points to consider in thinking about and discussing open access, gives examples of open-access implementation, and provides sources for more...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: May 2003 | EN
Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing
This is a statement of principle that was drafted at a meeting in April 2003 at the headquarters of the US-based Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The statement spells out significant concrete steps that all relevant parties -- including scientific research organisations, scientists, publishers...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: June 2003 | EN
Institutional Repository Checklist and Resource Guide
This document is designed to guide institutions on how to create digital collections of the intellectual output of a single university or a multiple institution community of colleges and universities in an 'institutional repository'. It outlines the benefits of this approach to organising and...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2002 | EN
Self-archiving FAQ
This is a list of frequently asked questions on self-archiving of research papers. It provides information on what self-archiving is, and gives advice on how researchers, libraries, publishers and research funders can facilitate self-archiving. The questions also address concerns that...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2002 | EN
Budapest Open Access Initiative Statement
This declaration was signed by key players in the open-access movement at a meeting organised by the Open Society Institutehttp://www.soros.org in Budapest in February 2002. It calls for barriers to open-access publishing to be removed, with the aim that research articles from all academic fields...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: February 2002 | EN
E-journals: Developing Country Access Survey
This survey, conducted by the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, gives an overview of the activities and views of publishers regarding access to their information within the developing world either free or at reduced cost. The results of a short...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2003 | EN
An Economic Analysis of Scientific Research Publishing
This comprehensive study of the current status of the global science publishing industry was commissioned by the UK-based Wellcome Trust and completed in September 2003. It reviews how the current market structure functions - in terms of supply and demand - who the key players are, and how...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: January 2003 | EN
Science in the Information Society
ICSU has published four brochures on: universal access to scientific knowledge; decision making and governance; policy issues for scientific information; and improving education and training. The brochures were published following a meeting on 'Science in the Information Society' held in Paris...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: May 2003 | EN
Comments and Inputs from the Scientific Community on the Draft Declaration and Action Plan for the World Summit on the Information Society
This document - compiled on behalf of the international scientific community - suggests amendments to the Draft Declaration of Principleshttp://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_multi.asp?lang=en&id=1013|1014 and Draft Plan of Action...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: May 2003 | EN
Message from the Founders: Why PLoS Became a Publisher
This statement, published in the first issue of the open-access journal PLoS Biologyhttp://www.plosbiology.org , outlines the philosophy behind the journal - the first to be published by the Public Library of Sciencehttp://www.plos.org . PLoS Biology has been launched to demonstrate that...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: October 2003 | EN
Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
This declaration was made at a meeting on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities held in Berlin, Germany in October 2003. It aims to promote the Internet as a "functional instrument for a global scientific knowledge base", and says that "content and software tools must be openly...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: October 2003 | EN
