Publisher Copyright Policies
Use this site to find a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher’s copyright transfer agreement. You can search the site by journal name or through the publisher listing. This service is a development of the original publishers’ listings produced by the ROMEO project (Rights MEtadata for Open archiving).

SHERPA is investigating issues in the future of scholarly communication. It is developing open-access institutional repositories in a number of research universities to facilitate the rapid and efficient worldwide dissemination of research.

Physical Review OnLine Archive (PROLA) now displays citing articles from publishers that participate in the CrossRef forward linking program. Note: the first Physical Review series started in 1893! This resource covers a tremendous amount of physics literature.

The interface for citing articles has also been completely redone to allow convenient browsing by journal and year. For example: Citations of Einstein’s EPR paper.

For more information about CrossRef go to: http://www.crossref.org/

The good folks at Thomson ISI have just released an upgrade to their Web of Science database. It has a slightly new look to the results page and the limits to the analysis and sort features have essentially disappeared!

You will notice a new box at the beginning of your results list with options to “Refine” your search by Subject Categories, Sourch Titles, Document Types, Authors, and Publication Years and more. When you select one of these “Refinements” you will get a listing with the number of hits for each. Then you can select from the sorted options. Cool! AND you can continue to refine your results and for more options, you can use the analyse tool. NOW you can analyse sets upto 100,000 records. This is wonderful news.

Hurray to ISI!

I just love this stuff…