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Antidepressant Use Linked To Superbug Infections
...All medicines have both benefits and risks and antidepressants are no exception. According to a new study, people who take certain antidepressants are at increased risk for superbug infections...
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BioMed Central launches 'open access' Cases Database & Semantic Search Tools
BioMed Central has launched a new semantically-enriched search tool, Cases Database, which aims to enhance the discovery, filtering and aggregation of medical case reports from open access journal articles. Read More »
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BioMed Central To Publish Open Access Journal Clinical Diabetes And Endocrinology In Collaboration With The University Of Michigan
BioMed Central and the University of Michigan are pleased to announce an agreement to publish a new open access journal, Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology, which is now open for submissions and will begin publishing in the first quarter of 2015...
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China's Research Funders Announce Open Access Policies
China’s top science funding agencies – the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Natural Science Foundation of China – have issued new open access policies on research in a move to make research widely available. The academy said open access would “facilitate knowledge dissemination and accelerate the globalisation of science”...
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Data miners strike gold on copyright
In a significant victory for data miners, the open access publisher BioMed Central is to waive all copyright over datasets it publishes. Read More »
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OHNews 2013 Readers Choice: Most visited links to 'Open Access' Publications
As we head towards the end of the year, the global 'Open Health' movement continues to grow and strengthen. Based on the number of hits by our Open Health News (OHNews) readers on links to 'Open Access' health informatics and medical publications (e.g. Read More »
Open Access Africa Wrap-up
Last week was a significant time for open access in Africa. BioMed Central’s third Open Access Africa conference at the University of Cape Town (UCT) was so rich in content that it is hard to do it justice in a blog.
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Open Access Research Library JournalClick Posts Rapid Growth - Now 3.4 Million Articles
An innovative open access online library of research articles has announced that it now plays host to over 3.4 million free articles, and adding new articles each day as they are released...
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Open Publishing Can Improve Access To Knowledge
There have been increasing demands for more transparency in the reporting of research findings, which has built up pressure on all those involved in making and testing potential new drugs, biologics and medical devices.
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Publication Liberation
Making academic publications freely available to researchers and curious students should be standard practice... Read More »
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Publishers' Copyright Move 'Could Limit Use Of Research'
Scientific publishers producing model copyright licences will make it harder for academic research to be a “first class citizen of the web”...
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Review Of Open Access In Economics
Ever since BioMed Central (BMC) published its first free online article on July 19th 2000, the Open Access movement has made significant progress, so much so that many different stakeholders now see 100% Open Access to research as inevitable in the near future. Read More »
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University Research: If You Believe In Openness, Stand Up For It
Publishing openly provides greater exposure, boosts prospects and can lead to more citations...
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