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To: "SPARC Open Access Forum" <SPARC-OAForum@arl.org>
From: Alexei Koudinov <sparcoaforum@neurobiologyoflipids.org>
Subject: [SOAF] Help your scholars to recognize the momentum and comment on NIH OA plan!

9 September 2004

Dear Open Access Friends, Librarians, Journal Editors,

I wonder whether you had a chance to inform your scholars or colleagues
about the latest NIH notice "Enhanced Public Access to NIH Research
 Information" and call for comments.

I feel confident that scientists and students need a bit of librarian help
at this critical moment. As major stakeholders in academic knowledge
scholars should provide an unbiased comments to National Institutes of
Health (NIH) Open Access plan. Academics must be heard and they will be
heard!

Please help scholars to recognize the momentum, and their critical role in
building the future of academic publishing. The time has come. The sample
letter received by 650+ subscribers (*) of the Neurobiology of Lipids
(NoL) is provided below.

Sincerely,

Alexei Koudinov, MD, PhD
Neurobiology of Lipids
Editor

(*) Please note: NoL welcomes readers to voluntary register solely in
order to build the community of scientists and students working on or
interested in the subject of the journal scope. Such registration,
however, is not necessary to access NoL content. Current subscription of
650+ indicates that such number of scholars found that staying in touch
with Neurobiology of Lipids (via 'content alert' feature, for example) is
helpful. Neurobiology of Lipids does not employ institutional membership,
licensing or access control, so please feel free to include link to
<http://neurobiologyoflipids.org/myjournalindex.html>the journal home at
your library resources.

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Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 01:55:48 +0300
To: subscribers[at]neurobiologyoflipids.org
From: emailalerts[at]neurobiologyoflipids.org
Subject: Neurobiology of Lipids eMail Alerts - September 8, 2004
Neurobiology of Lipids
Expert peer-review journal published by the editorial group

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8 September 2004

Three items: 1. NoL Announcement ; 2. New NoL Feature ; 3. your NoL
subscription

Welcome to The Neurobiology of Lipids eMail Alert service.

Our journal web site is completely free of charge, but welcomes one-time
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1. NoL ANNOUNCEMENT
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NIH Notice and call for comment:
Enhanced Public Access to NIH Research Information
National Institutes of Health (3 September 2004)
[FullText] [Related News: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4][NIH comment form] [submit comment
via e.mail]

Representative text: "...This notice is to announce and to seek public
comments regarding NIH's plans to facilitate enhanced public access to NIH
health related research information. NIH intends to request that its
grantees and supported Principal Investigators provide the NIH with
electronic copies of all final version manuscripts upon acceptance for
publication if the research was supported in whole or in part by NIH
funding. This would include all research grants, cooperative agreements,
contracts, as well as National Research Service Award (NRSA) fellowships.
We define final manuscript as the author's version resulting after all
modifications due to the peer review process. Submission of the final
manuscript will provide NIH supported investigators with an alternate
means by which they will meet and fulfill the requirement of the provision
of one copy of each publication in the annual or final progress reports.
Submission of the electronic versions of final manuscripts will be
monitored as part of the annual grant progress review and close-out
process..."

See further details at NoL page on Open Access:
<http://neurobiologyoflipids.org/openaccess/openaccess2004.html#nih040904>.

This page also provides links to
<http://neurobiologyoflipids.org/openaccess/openaccess2004.html#sfn2004abs>
NoL managing editor teaching abstract on Open Access (to be presented at
the 34th Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2004, San Diego, CA,
October 23-27, 2004), and to 26 Aug. 2004
<http://neurobiologyoflipids.org/openaccess/openaccess2004.html#nobelists2c
ongress260804>Open Letter to the U.S. Congress Signed by 25 Nobel Prize
Winners.
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2. NEW NoL FEATURE
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Neurobiology of Lipids recently innovated NIH/NLM PubMed (Medline) &
PubMedCentral search box along with article search box for the Directory
of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) at the
<http://neurobiologyoflipids.org/myjournalindex.html#searchdoajandnlm>journal
home page. It means that you can search major bibliography databases from
the journal home page, instead of having to go elsewhere. We hope that you
will find this feature helpful.

Sincerely,

Neurobiology of Lipids
(ISSN 1683-5506)

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