University Library News

The World Health Organisation (WHO), now follows an open access policy to ensure the widespread dissemination of scientific research. The policy applies to all WHO-authored or WHO-funded research published in external journals and books.

From the WHO website:

Journal articles or book chapters produced by individuals or institutions who are funded in whole or in part by WHO must be published in one of the following ways:

• in an open-access journal (such as those published by BioMed Central, Hindawi and PLoS);
• in a subscription journal that offers a hybrid open-access fee option (most subscription journals now offer the option for authors to pay a fee to ensure that their articles are openly accessible);.
• in a subscription journal that allows authors to deposit the accepted author manuscript in Europe PubMed Central within 12 months of the date of publication.

Hundreds of Georgia State University faculty and graduate students publish their research in open access journals available through PubMed Central (PMC) and through the GSU Library’s research repository ScholarWorks.  Here is a sampling of GSU authors cited in PMC:

• Department of Psychology
  Alice N. Barrett, John P. Barile, Esther K. Malm, Scott R. Weaver.  English Proficiency and Peer Interethnic Relations as Predictors of Math Achievement among Latino and Asian Immigrant Students.  J Adolesc. Published online 2012 September 5. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2012.08.002

• Center for Inflammation, Immunity & Infection, and Department of Biology
  Young-Tae Lee, Ki-Hye Kim, Eun-Ju Ko, Yu-Na Lee, Min-Chul Kim, Young-Man Kwon, Yinghua Tang, Min-Kyoung Cho, Youn-Jeong Lee, Sang-Moo Kang. New vaccines against influenza virus. Clin Exp Vaccine Res. 2014 January; 3(1): 12–28. Published online 2013 December 18. doi: 10.7774/cevr.2014.3.1.12

• Georgia Health Policy Center, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
  Glenn Landers, Mei Zhou The Impact of Medicaid Peer Support Utilization on Cost. Medicare Medicaid Res Rev. 2014; 4(1): mmrr.004.01.a04. Published online 2014 February 18. doi: 10.5600/mmrr.004.01.a04

• School of Public Health
  Monica H Swahn, Jane B Palmier, Agnes Benegas-Segarra, Fe A Sinson. Alcohol marketing and drunkenness among students in the Philippines: findings from the nationally representative Global School-based Student Health Survey. BMC Public Health. 2013; 13: 1159. Published online 2013 December 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-1159

• The Gerontology Institute
  Candace L. Kemp, Mary M. Ball, Molly M. Perkins.  Convoys of care: Theorizing intersections of formal and informal care.   J Aging Stud.Published online 2012 November 15. doi: 10.1016/j.jaging.2012.10.002

• Department of Physics and Astronomy
  Ramesh G. Mani, John Hankinson, Claire Berger, Walter A. de Heer. Observation of resistively detected hole spin resonance and zero-field pseudo-spin splitting in epitaxial graphene.  Nat Commun. 2012 August 7; 3: 996. doi: 10.1038/ncomms1986

• Department of Psychology
  Jalika C. Street, Farah Taha, Ashley D. Jones, Kamilah A. Jones, Erika Carr, Amanda Woods, Staci Woodall, Nadine J. Kaslow. Racial Identity and Reasons for Living in African American Female Suicide Attempters.  Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. Published online 2012 August 6. doi: 10.1037/a0029594

• Division of Nutrition, Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing and Health Professions
  Anita M. Nucci, Caitlin Sundby Russell, Ruiyan Luo, Vijay Ganji, Flora Olabopo, Barbara Hopkins, Michael F. Holick, Kumaravel Rajakumar. The effectiveness of a short food frequency questionnaire in determining vitamin D intake in children.  Dermatoendocrinol. 2013 January 1; 5(1): 205–210. Published online 2013 January 1. doi: 10.4161/derm.24389

• Neuroscience Institute and Department of Biology
  Charles D. Derby. Cephalopod Ink: Production, Chemistry, Functions and Applications. Mar Drugs. 2014 May; 12(5): 2700–2730. Published online 2014 May 12. doi: 10.3390/md12052700

• Department of Computer Science
  Xuan Guo, Yu Meng, Ning Yu, Yi Pan. Cloud computing for detecting high-order genome-wide epistatic interaction via dynamic clustering.  BMC Bioinformatics. 2014; 15: 102. Published online 2014 April 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-15-102

• Department of Chemistry and The Centre for Biotechnology and Drug Design
  Hyo-Jick Choi, Charles F. Ebersbacher, Min-Chul Kim, Sang-Moo Kang, Carlo D. Montemagno.  A Mechanistic Study on the Destabilization of Whole Inactivated Influenza Virus Vaccine in Gastric Environment. PLoS One. 2013; 8(6): e66316. Published online 2013 June 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066316