The keynote talk of MEDNET 2005 was a presentation of Gunther Eysenbach, Associate Professor Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto; and Senior Scientist, Division of Medical Decision Making and Health Care Research.
He conducted a decent research to find out if articles published in Open Access are more likely to be cited (more often and earlier) then non-OA articles.
In a very clear way, although with a little basic statistics, he explained his research method and the results. Taking into account every possible factor that can be significantly important, the results show that there is a difference in favour of the OA articles.
The talk was explenatory about the difference between the GOLD way and the GREEN way.
In his opinion the research conducted by the OPCIT Project is mainly focussed on the GREEN way (the so-called "back-door") and he wanted to show independantly that the GOLD way is the " better" one.
The research wil be published shortly in "his" OA Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), but perhaps the presentation will be available also shortly.
Here a short overview of all new updates around the Journal apps we are supporting. Personally I am most excited about the anouncements of " docwise " making big steps to keep up with BrowZine & Read (Integration -"Open in"- with Dropbox, Evernote and more, save and email full text articles), but making a hug jump with unique features, like shareable Folders with docwise users ánd a RSS reader feature (boldly called Google Reader replacement!). Bring it on! BrowZine : just published the Android Version of their App to which the CMB UMCG now has a subscription. To be downloaded from Google Play Store or Amazon App Store the following publishers have been added Project MUSE Cambridge University Press American Marketing Association Academy of Management Royal Society of Chemistry Institute of Physics American Physical Society Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) American Geophysical Union International Society for Optics a...
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