Archive for May, 2005
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American Chemical Society Expresses Opposition to NIH’s PubChem
The press reports that the American Chemical Society is calling on Congress to shut down the NIH’s PubChem, a freely accessible database that connects chemical information with biomedical research and clinical information, organizing facts in numerous public databases into a unified whole. PubChem is a critical component of the NIH strategic “roadmap” to speed new medical treatments and improve healthcare.
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UC Santa Cruz Academic Senate Passes Resolutions on Scholarly Publishing
The UC Santa Cruz Academic Senate passes four resolutions on scholarly publishing. They include calls for a specific mechanism to engage faculty support for library content negotiations, exploration of the challenges of academic evaluation, pursuit of a collective copyright to bolster faculty copyright management, and tying immediate scholarly communication issues to the larger question of stewardship of UCSC’s scholarly assets.
