The Forum for Global Health Protection (FGHP) is being established to respond to calls from the scientific and policymaking communities for a source of easily accessible, authoritative information about new and emerging health threats.
Independent from governments and focusing on new and emerging health threats, the not-for-profit Forum will collate and disseminate a wide range of information, making it available free of charge to enable informed decision-making.
Areas covered by the FGHP will include: [1] emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, [2] hazardous chemicals and poisons, [3] ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, [4] natural and man-made disasters, [5] emerging environmental hazards, [6] deliberate or malicious release of chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear material, and [7] emergency preparedness and response.
The FGHP works in close association with – but independent from – the UK’s Health Protection Agency (HPA) and has strong links with other health-related organizations across the globe.
Professor Pat Troop, head of the Forum’s International Scientific Advisory Board and CEO of the HPA, said: “It is critical that up-to-date, accurate information on new and emerging health threats is made available – quickly and easily. To address this, the FGHP will use an Open-Access model, meaning that the full text of content on the FGHP website and all FGHP publications will be accessible free of charge, from the day of publication. Uniquely and importantly, this Open-Access policy also extends to authors. No charge will be made for publication in the Forum’s academic journal, the Journal of Global Health Protection, scheduled for launch in January 2007.” ...
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/12/2006 03:52:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
