Stanford School of Medicine
LaneConnex
Lane Medical Library & Knowledge
Management Center
a division of IRT
Research & Publishing
- Support for Authors
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Lane Postdoc Success Guide
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Biocomputational
Support
- Literature Searching
- HotBooks: Featured bioresearch titles
- Open Access Publishing
Stanford Weighs In
- OA Articles by Stanford authors (PubMed search)
- On open access, Stanford's leadership falters (Stanford Daily editorial)
- Vantage Point (Patrick Brown, PLoS co-founder)
- Vantage Point (Donald Kennedy, Science editor-in-chief)
- C-Lib Exec Summary (Crisis in Scholarly Publishing)
- Keeping the Scholars in Scholarly Publishing (Michael Keller, HighWire Press)
- At What Cost? (Michael Keller in Stanford Magazine)
- Prof Wants Research Online (Pat Brown in Stanford Daily)
Open Access
Will I Be Cited?
Recent studies provide evidence that open access articles are cited more immediately and frequently than non-open access articles. See:
- Open Access Increases Citation Rate
- Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles
- The Effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies
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The Impact of Open
Access Journals: A Citation Study From Thomson-ISI
- Do Open Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact?
- Do open access journals have impact?
Feedback or questions welcome. Contact .
Key Initiatives
- PLoS (Public Library of Science)
- Biomed Central ("The Open Access Publisher")
- PubMed Central (NLM's free archive of life sciences journals)
- SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resource Coalition)
- ACRL (Scholarly Communication - Association of College & Research Libraries)
More Resources
- SHERPA (Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving)
- DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
- Selected Bibliography (ca. 100 citations)
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Published Bibliography
(ca. 1,300 citations)
- PubMed Search (on open access)