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NOTES 1. Daniel Akst, "Information Liberation," Wall Street Journal Digital Network, March 7, 2008, accessed March 2011, online.wsj.com/ article/SB120486540450119149.html. 2. Createchange.org, accessed March 2011. 3. "About SPARK," accessed March 2011, www. arl.org/sparc/about/index.shtml. Google Scholar is probably the most used resource for scholars, students, and the curious. OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS The second strategy put forth in the Budapest Open Access Initiative is to publish online OA journals. While OA journals are free, it is difficult to know what is available. The directory at www.doaj.org provides a complete listing of all OA journals, more than 6,000 to date. Even though OA journals are on the rise and are free to readers, they are not free to publish. Other funding sources must be made available for this effort to truly succeed. The International Journal of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (ijtmb.org), for example, is funded through donations to the Massage Therapy Foundation (MTF). Contributions make it possible to provide free access to all seeking scholarly information on massage and bodywork. Glenn Hymel, PhD, executive editor of IJTMB, was instrumental in selecting an OA system for the journal. "In the case of the MTF's commitment to research, education, and service to colleagues and the public at large, the decision to develop and launch an OA, peer-reviewed journal was rather compelling." MTF President Ruth Werner recently signed MTF's Agreement for Full Participation in NIH PubMed Central Archive. She says this agreement between MTF and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) relates to the indexing of IJTMB into the NLM's international database of academically rigorous peer-reviewed medical journals, PubMed Central. PROGRESS The OA movement is making life a bit easier for us massage therapists to get our hands on information that can feed our minds and improve our practices. Another opportunity for getting involved is to attend an OA conference. This year the PKP conference will be in Berlin in September. Keynote speakers include PKP founder John Willinsky and Google Scholar creator, Anurag Acharya. It should be quite exciting! 1984, Diana Thompson has created a varied and interesting career out of massage: from specializing in pre- and postsurgical lymph drainage to teaching, writing, consulting, and volunteering. Her consulting includes assisting insurance carriers on integrating massage into insurance plans and educating researchers on massage therapy theory and practice to ensure research projects and protocols are designed to match how we practice. Contact her at soapsage@comcast.net. A licensed massage practitioner since 4. Budapest Open Access Initiative, accessed March 2011, www.soros.org/openaccess. 5. Ibid. 6. "Scholarly Publishing and Open Access Issues at UW," accessed March 2011, www. lib.washington.edu/scholcomm. 7. "Open Access to Research," accessed March 2011, www.publicknowledge.org/issues/openaccess. 8. Steve Lawrence, "Free Online Availability Substantially Increases a Paper's Impact," accessed March 2011, www.nature.com/nature/ debates/e-access/Articles/lawrence.html. 9. "Open Access to Research," accessed March 2011, www.publicknowledge.org/issues/openaccess. 10. National Institutes of Health Public Access, accessed March 2011, www.publicaccess.nih.gov. 11. "Budapest Open Access Initiative," accessed March 2011, www.soros.org/openaccess. 12. "Budapest Open Access Initiative," accessed March 2011, www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml. 13. Ibid. 14. R. Lucas and J. Willinsky, "Open Access and the Ongoing Transformation of Scholarly Publishing: A Guide for Doctoral Students," Routledge Doctoral Companion. (London, UK: Routledge, at press). 15. National Institutes of Health Public Access, accessed March 2011, www.publicaccess.nih.gov. 16. Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, "Harvard Goes Open Access," accessed March 2011, www. cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/3462. 17. Research Works Archive, accessed March 2011, www.digital.lib.washington.edu/faq.html. 18. Registry of Open Access Repositories, accessed March 2011, www.roar.eprints.org. 19. Google Scholar, accessed March 2011, www.scholar.google.com. 20. R. Lucas and J. Willinsky, "Open Access and the Ongoing Transformation of Scholarly Publishing," in Routledge Doctoral Companion, ed. Melanie Walker and Pat Thomson (Andover: Routledge, 2010). earn CE hours at your convenience: abmp's online education center, www.abmp.com 121

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