PMC Canada: Making Canadian health research accessible to all
Canadians will soon have access to the latest health research findings with the launch of PubMed Central Canada (PMC Canada). Building on the successful PubMed Central archive developed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, PMC Canada will help accelerate the creation of knowledge and facilitate its use by providing a freely accessible, Canada-based archive of peer-reviewed health science literature.
PMC Canada is the result of a three-way partnership between the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the National Research Council’s Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, and the U.S. National Library of Medicine. It will be part of the larger PubMed Central International network, which currently includes the U.S. PubMed Central and UK PubMed Central. The long term goal is to create a global network of digital archives that facilitates the sharing of locally deposited content with others in the network. This international network will help researchers across the globe build upon one another’s work and speed up the discovery process to address important health challenges.
PMC Canada will support CIHR’s Policy on Access to Research Outputs, which requires that all peer-reviewed publications resulting from CIHR funding be freely accessible online within six months of publication. This archive will provide CIHR researchers an outlet to deposit their peer-reviewed publications and allow them to reach a much broader audience, which has the potential to increase the value and impact of their research.
The first phase of PMC Canada will be launched during Open Access Week – October 19-23, 2009. It will include a manuscript submission system to enable CIHR researchers to deposit articles that are accepted for publication by peer-reviewed journals.
To deposit articles in the archive using the manuscript submission system, CIHR researchers will need to have a PMC Canada account created. To set up an account, please send an e-mail message to access@cihr-irsc.gc.ca.
SOURCE: CIHR E-Alert: Issue 78
This is a fabulous website. So nice to look at and to negotiate through. Would love to get in touch with the webmaster to give him/her some work!
Dee Kramer
Dee,
Good luck with this event. I hope to read some interesting results from your conversations. Unfortunately, Unfortunately, I am not able to join you as I am in Phoenix from Oct 13 to 17th.
Peter
Great idea – I’d be happy to participate! Glad you are feeling better.
Hello Community –
It looks like we will create a terrific series of stories about being a knowledge broker.
So far, I have positive interest from:
Josee Duquette
David Phipps
Melanie Barwick
Daryl Rock
Angie Hart
Kirsten Sears
Heather Bullock
David Yetman
Hal de Lair
(I hope I haven’t forgotten anybody, I was away last week and have still not finished the email pile.)
Let me know if others are interested in contributing something.
As I mentioned above, the content is quite open – conversational, key lessons, 400-800 words about your experience as a knowledge broker/catalyst/leader.
The stories will be posted at both
http://www.knowledgemobilization.net
http://knowledgemobilizationworks.blogspot.com
David – are you able to share the slides or notes from these sessions?
Thanks.
Peter
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Hi Sarah,
I am trying to do exactly the same thing – start a network of people who are conducting research on KT. My mandate is the province of Ontario (in Canada), in particular scientists conducting cancer control health services research associated with the OICR (Ontario Institute for Cancer Research). I’m just in the process of conducting a needs assessment to get a better idea of what kinds of tools, etc. they would like to use to start the network. I will definitely be starting a mailing list and a web site. The nature of the site will vary depending on the results of the needs assessment and may as simple as a few pages explaining what we do or be full fledged social networking type of environment.
What group are you working with? What are your plans? Would you like me to send you a copy of my needs assessment? Thanks.
Laura
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Laura O’Grady, PhD
Assistant Professor
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Knowledge Translation Research Network
Scientific Associate
Department of Family & Community Medicine
Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Faculty of Medicine
University of Toronto
263 McCaul Street, Room 323
Toronto, Ontario, M5T 1W7
Telephone: +1 416-978-7994
Fax: +1 416-978-4717
laura.ogrady@utoronto.ca
laura@lauraogrady.ca
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