Towards a Global Nursing Knowledge Network

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A resource list of materials dealing with open access; we are grateful to Peter Suber for providing the list on which this is based.

Models for online publication and archiving

GNKN does not necessarily advocate any of these particular models in toto; links to information about the models, and to other material on initiatives around online publishing and archiving, are provided as background material to discussions and the development of GNKN.

arXive (http://arxiv.org/ ) ArXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science and computer science.

National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central (http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/) PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences journal literature. Access to PMC is free and unrestricted.

British Medical Journal (http://bmj.com/ )

Cogprints (http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk ) CogPrints is an electronic archive for self-archived papers in any area of psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics, and many areas of computer science, philosophy, biology, medicine, anthropology , and as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition.

BioMed Central (http://www.biomedcentral.com ) BioMed Central is an independent publishing house providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. All the original research articles in journals published by BioMed Central are immediately and permanently available online without charge or any other barriers to access.

Public Library of Science (http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org ) The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit organization of scientists committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource.

Open Archives Initiative (http://www.openarchives.org/ ) The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content.

Other initiatives and links of relevance to this proposal include:

The Budapest Open Access Initiative (http://www.soros.org/openaccess/index.shtml)

Other materials dealing with aspects of online publication and archiving:

The research-impact cycle – a presentation by Tim Brody, e-prints.org:
downloadable Powerpoint version (http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving.ppt)
webpage version (http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving.htm)

Publisher copyright policies and self-archiving (http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/Romeo%20Publisher%20Policies.htm)

Invitation to participate:

We invite you to share your views about such a proposal. We are also interested in your thoughts about:

1) Would you be willing to participate?

2) Would you use such a resource?

Contact:

Linda Q. Thede in the first instance for all queries, comments and contributions - linda.thede@gnkn.org

Peter J. Murray for website issues - peter.murray@gnkn.org