HSL News

Health Sciences Authors Reach "The Top 100"

Four health sciences faculty made made the list of 100 top books by 100 UW authors featured in the Dec issue of Columns. All four are in the UW Libraries collection. Holds may be placed by clicking on the book's title.

• When your body gets the blues - Marie-Annette Brown
• A brief history of the mind - William Calvin
• Bioethics beyond the headlines - Albert Jonsen
• Nature cures, history of alternative medicine in America - James Whorton

Open Access Launch of NeuroCommons

Today Science Commons officially launched NeuroCommons. The NeuroCommons is a proving ground for the ideas behind Science Commons: open legal contracts and Open Access literature, advanced use of open-standards Semantic Web technology, and the construction of an open community involving all the stakeholders in scientific funding, research, and publishing.

It represents an integrated testbed for Science Commons' work in Publishing and Licensing as well as the first investment in our efforts to create a Science Commons by a private company. NeuroCommons will:

1. Use freely available literature and databases to make scientific knowledge, descriptions of biological materials, and data sets easier to use and find - we will connect a graph of neurological information and publish it in Semantic Web standard formats.


2. Provide a web-based infrastructure for search, community-driven additions, and annotations.


3. Lower the legal and technical barriers to finding and sharing knowledge and tools in the neurosciences.

NIH Manuscript Submission System: Third Party Option

As of July 6th, the NIH Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) system accepts submissions from users who have an NIH MyNCBI account. This account will enable "third parties" (e.g., administrative personnel, graduate students, etc.), with permission from the author, to deposit NIH-funded manuscripts into PubMed Central (PMC).

Previouslty, only NIH Staff or users who had Electronic Research Administration (eRA) Commons accounts could submit manuscripts to the NIHMS system. Instructions for Third Party submission may be found on the Scholarly Publishing & Open Access page.

Explore Copyright Myths & Monsters

The UW School of Medicine's Office of Industry Relations will be presenting "Copyright Myths and Monsters: Authorship, Ownership, Open Source, and Fair Use Pitfalls" on Wed, Jan 12, 2005.

Place: Turner Auditorium, Health Sciences Building, Room D-209

Time: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Speakers:
Susan Wray, DDS, JD, Director, Industry Relations, UW Medicine &
Charles Williams, PhD, JD, Director, Digital Ventures, UW TechTransfer

Enhanced Public Access to NIH Research

The NIH is proposing that all published research supported by NIH funding must be included in their open access digital repository, PubMed Central , within 6 months of publication. The deadline for public comment has been extended to Nov 16, 2004. Visit the proposal site to voice your opinion!

For more information, see the NIH Public Access Q&A or visit HSL's page on Publishing in Today's Research Environment.