Publisher-Author Agreements and the NIH Public Access Policy

ARL Releases New Analysis
Washington DC–The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released "PubMed Central Deposit and Author Rights: Agreements between 12 Publishers and the Authors Subject to the NIH Public Access Policy," by Ben Grillot, MLS (Maryland 2002), second-year student at the George Washington University Law School, and legal intern for ARL.
To help authors make […]

ISI and impact factors

Published impact factors affect authors’ decisions about manuscript submission, funding awards, and promotion and tenure. While  critiques of the use of impact factors are common, this report by the editors of the Journal of Cell Biology and the Journal of Experimental Medicine is the first to raise serious questions about the underlying validity of the […]