Duke Medical Center Library & Archives
Tag: open access

Find Open Access Articles through Unpaywall
Posted On: Friday, May 19, 2017 - 16:36 by Jamie Conklin
If you need an article not available in our e-journals or catalog, try Unpaywall for an open access version. First, install the Unpaywall browser extension for Chrome or Firefox. Then when viewing an article, click the green tab for open access that automatically appears on the right side of the browser when an open access version is available.
Unpaywall finds open access content through a variety of sources, including PubMed Central, the Directory...
MORECategories: Explore Tools
Tags: open access

Open Access Required by Gates Foundation
Posted On: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 - 14:40 by Megan von Isenburg
As of January 1, 2017, the Gates Foundation Open Access Policy will require that all Gates Foundation-funded research be promptly and broadly disseminated. What does this mean?
From the Foundation Website:
Our Open Access policy contains the following elements:
Tags: publishing, open access

Making Information Free: Open Access & More
Posted On: Friday, October 7, 2016 - 13:56 by Patricia Thibodeau
Easy and immediate access to journal articles still remains a challenge. Even Duke cannot provide access to everything. Journal prices have continued to increase year after year with more and more expensive journals being published. That means important clinical, research, and educational content can be locked up for months, years, or permanently, inaccessible to the patients, health providers, researchers, teachers and learners that need access to them. This problem becomes even more massive when you look at access to information within developing countries, and can become an obstacle as Duke tries to work with global sites to reduce disparities in health, education, and research.
The following three movements are trying to ensure that...
MORECategories: Resource Updates
Tags: open access, journals, NIH Public Access Policy, publishing, open science, cope fund

Duke Elements - We Can Help!
Posted On: Tuesday, March 8, 2016 - 15:54 by Brandi Tuttle
Do you manage your Duke Elements publications?
Have you received a message from Duke Elements notifying you the system has found new publications for you or that you have publications awaiting your approval? Remember, your publications are only displayed in your Scholars@Duke profile if you have approved them in Elements. The Library can help make sure your publications are listed in your Scholars@Duke profile!
Would you like to increase the reach of your publications?
While you are approving publications for display in your Scholars profile, you may also upload the full text of the publications for open access via the DukeSpace...
MORECategories: Resource Updates
Tags: Elements, Scholars@Duke, publications, repository, open access

Is your journal asking for a waiver of the Duke Open Access Policy?
Posted On: Monday, March 31, 2014 - 13:43 by Patricia Thibodeau
Some Duke authors are being asked by journal publishers to obtain a waiver from Duke’s Open Access Policy. Duke’s Open Access policy does require that authors retain the rights to the article, including depositing the “final author’s version of the article” in the university repository. Some journals object to having a copy deposited in the Duke repository, while others just want an assurance that the copy at Duke will not become public for a number of months after it is officially published.
The Provost’s designee Kevin Smith (kevin.l.smith@duke.edu, 919.668.4451) can work with you on obtaining a waiver to the policy or ensuring that access to the copy you submit to Duke is delayed...
MORECategories: Alerts
Tags: open access
On the Science journal sting operation
Posted On: Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 09:44 by Megan von Isenburg
The journal Science recently published the results of a "sting operation" that involved sending poor quality research to several Open Access journals. The article, "Who's Afraid of Peer Review," begins with the tantalizing story:
"On 4 July, good news arrived in the inbox of Ocorrafoo Cobange, a biologist at the Wassee Institute of Medicine in Asmara. It as the official letter of acceptance for a paper he had submitted 2 months earlier to the Journal of Natural Pharmaceuticals, describing the anticancer properties of a chemical that Cobange had extracted from a lichen.
In fact, it should have been promptly rejected. Any reviewer with more than a high-...
MORETags: open access