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Antidepressant Use Linked To Superbug Infections

Robin Wulffson | Examiner.com | May 7, 2013

...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

Rebecca Fairbairn | BioMed Central Blog | December 10, 2012

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 »

BioMed Central To Publish Open Access Journal Clinical Diabetes And Endocrinology In Collaboration With The University Of Michigan

Press Release | BioMed Central, University of Michigan | September 30, 2014

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

Yojana Sharma | University World News | May 23, 2014

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

Paul Jump | Times Higher Education | August 22, 2013

In a significant victory for data miners, the open access publisher BioMed Central is to waive all copyright over datasets it publishes. Read More »

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

Rebecca Fairburn | BioMed Central Blog | November 19, 2012

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

Press Release | JournalClick | May 20, 2014

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

Rebecca Lawrence | PMLiVE | July 3, 2014

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

Connor Emdin | The Varsity | August 25, 2012

Making academic publications freely available to researchers and curious students should be standard practice... Read More »

Publishers' Copyright Move 'Could Limit Use Of Research'

Paul Jump | Times Higher Education | August 9, 2014

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

Ross Mounce | Open Knowledge Foundation | October 30, 2012

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 »

University Research: If You Believe In Openness, Stand Up For It

Erin McKiernan | The Guardian | August 22, 2014

Publishing openly provides greater exposure, boosts prospects and can lead to more citations...

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