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A review is presented of Impactstory's Unpaywall browser for Google Chrome and Firefox browsers, which provides free full-text copies of open access (OA) research papers to users.

The article highlights the author's favorite open search tools for finding open arts and humanities content. Topics discussed include the JURN search tool, which discovers the full text of open journals in the arts and humanities; the sister tool of JURN called GRAFT, which searches the world's academic repositories, and the extremely poor semantic interpretation of queries resulting in subsequent slowing down of Paperity, a multidisciplinary aggregator of OA journals and papers.

This section offers news briefs on information technology. Google has launched the strategic initiative, known as RE

An interview with Stevan Harnad, a cognitive scientist, is presented. Harnad relates the developments after he posted a message on the Internet calling for fellow researchers to offer their papers for free on the Internet, that was called Subversive Proposal, in which he admits that his call was not noticed. He recalls that attendees at the 2001 Budapest OpenAccess Initiative (BOAI) in Hungary neglected the importance of self-archiving. Harnad prefers Green Open Access (OA) initiative as it is quicker and surer. INSET: OA Highlights in 2009.

The article offers statistics related to the event Open Access Week, including the prison sentence facing biologist Diego Gómez Hoyos for uploading a scientific paper to the internet, the adoption of open scholarship by the organization Human Genome Project, and the number of articles published in open access journals.

The article focuses on Bioline International, a pioneer in open access (OA) initiatives. It states that the company was launched as a service to distribute scientific papers online, and became an aggregator that provides free platform for 70 periodicals from various nations. It mentions that Bioline also faces problems such as the misunderstanding that it is cost free, and the focus on high-impact factor metrics which increases library spending and decreases diversity in knowledge dissemination.

The article reports on the launch of UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) on January 9, 2007. UKPMC is the British version of the U.S. National Institutes of Health's PubMed Central. It will provide free access to a permanent online archive of peer-reviewed research papers in the medical and life sciences. The service is the product of work done by the Wellcome Trust to encourage British research-funding bodies to promote and encourage open access publishing. A special manuscript-submission system has been also introduced to let scientists submit articles that have been accepted in a peer-reviewed journal directly to UKPMC.

The article examines the trend in open access (OA) publishing in 2006. During a keynote address at the Internet Librarian International Conference, Danny Quah from the London School of Economics and Political Science in Great Britain asserted that scholarly publishing was an economic anomaly. Blackwell Publishing has released a best practices white paper on ethics in scholarly journal publishing. An op-ed piece in the November 1, 2006 issue of Indian newspaper The Hindu provides an overview of the OA movement.

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