May 15, 2005

PubMed implements Ajax

Pubmed has incorporated the Ajax methodology employed by Google Suggest in its "Single Citation Matcher":

Type in a journal name: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/citmatch.html

For comparison: http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en

The downside is that the code seems to force the user to click the "Go" button, rather than use the return key on the keyboard.

Posted by Kevin Messner at 04:37 PM | Comments (0)

May 02, 2005

NIH Public Access Policy comes into effect

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research came into effect this week.

The policy applies to any "research supported, in whole or in part, with direct costs from NIH". From May 2, 2005, NIH-funded investigators are requested to submit an electronic version of the author's final manuscript, upon acceptance for publication, to PubMed Central.

Peter Suber has a worthwhile commentary on this event and where it puts us: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/05-02-05.htm#nih

Posted by Kevin Messner at 04:27 PM | Comments (0)
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