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Harvard op-ed in support of OA Gregory N. Price and Elizabeth M. Stark, Access for All, Harvard Crimson, April 27, 2007. Price is a mathematics student and Stark a law student at Harvard. They are founding members of Harvard College Free Culture. Excerpt:
I'm on the road with few opportunities to blog. I'll start catching up this weekend.
Two new OA journals from the University of Limoges The Presses Universitaires de Limoges has launched two new OA journals:
(Thanks to l'album des sciences sociales, one and two, via Klaus Graf.) Cornell University has teamed up with BookSurge (a subsidiary of Amazon) to provide print-on-demand for the rare works that Cornell has digitized from its library and made OA on its web site. For details, see Daniel Aloi's story in the April 24 Chronicle Online. How IP law affects scientific research in four countries The Science & Intellectual Property in the Public Interest (SIPPI) project of the AAAS has released five reports on the Effects of Intellectual Property Protections on the Conduct of Scientific Research. Three are on intellectual property experiences of scientists in the US, UK, and Germany, one is on research-tool access in Japan, and one summarizes the other four. SHERPA has won the SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications for 2007. From today's announcement:
PS: Congratulations to everyone at SHERPA, especially to Bill Hubbard for his expert leadership. Update. Also see the SHERPA press release. Heather Morrison, Open Access Policy Update, a presentation at Beyond Limits: Building Open Access Collections (Burnaby, BC, April 19, 2007).
Dorothea Salo, Repository middleware, Caveat Lector, April 24, 2007. Excerpt:
The Online Education Database has put together a list of 80 selected Open Education Resources. (Thanks to Jimmy Atkinson.) SVN as repository software and authoring environment Peter Murray-Rust, What is an Institutional Repository for? A Scientist and the Web, April 24, 2007.
Canadian funding agency launches an OA repository Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) launched its OA repository as a pilot project in December 2005 and has now made it official. From yesterday's announcement:
Reme Melero has made a list of the OA repositories in Spain. Most, but not all, already appear in OpenDOAR and ROAR. The page also includes a Google custom search engine for searching across this set of repositories. Update. Also see the OAI harvester for Spanish repositories, from the Spanish Ministry of Culture. (Thanks to Klaus Graf.) Remedios Melero and Jordi Prats Prat, The route of a homeless Digital Object from "Closeland" to "Openland", a presentation at the CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (Geneva, April 18-20, 2007).
Data-driven science requires open data Peter Murray-Rust, Data-driven science - a scientist's view, a position paper for the NSF/JISC Repositories Workshop (Phoenix, April 17-19, 2007). Excerpt:
OA can create new business opportunities for publishers, which can help or hurt the academy Don Waters, Doing much more than we have so far attempted, a position paper for the NSF/JISC Repositories Workshop (Phoenix, April 17-19, 2007). Excerpt:
R. Stephen Berry on OA in chemistry R. Stephen Berry, Thoughts on digital scholarship in chemistry, Create Change, April 19, 2007. (Thanks to Chemistry Central.) Excerpt:
PLoS ONE has upgraded to v. 0.6. From the PLoS blog:
Red Hat supports open-source science Matt Asay, Red Hat: Let's open source science next, Open Sources (a blog for InfoWorld), April 19, 2007. Excerpt:
Also see Stephen Shankland's article in News.com and Matthew Aslet's article in Computer Business Review Online. SAE may lift its notorious DRM If you remember, the MIT libraries canceled their access to the Society of Automotive Engineers' digital library when the SAE refused to lift its onerous DRM. Now Randy Reichardt reports that the SAE has heard from more angry customers and may back down. Excerpt:
Scholarly communication moving toward mass-market blog-like tools David Rosenthal has blogged some notes and reflections on the NSF/JISC Repositories Workshop (Phoenix, April 17-19, 2007). Excerpt:
More on OA to UK theses and dissertations Tracey Caldwell, EThOS begins in earnest, Information World Review blog, April 19, 2007. Excerpt:
Astronomy journal launches an OA edition After 16 years of TA publication, the astronomy journal, Meta Research Bulletin, has added an OA edition. (Thanks to SpaceBanter.) MRB is published by Meta Research. From the journal's about page:
Making your OA publications easier to find PublicationsList is a new tool from Textensor that lets authors make an online linked list of their OA publications. From today's announcement:
German copyright proposals would reduce access and impede research Germany's Coalition for Action on Copyright for Education and Research (Aktionsb�ndnis: Urheberrecht f�r Bildung und Wissenschaft) issued a press release on April 19 calling on Germany's Bundestag to reject copyright proposals that would impede research and adopt proposals that would promote and facilitate research. Read it in German or Google's English. Rainer Kuhlen, Speaker for the Coalition, has been kind enough to send me some additional details on the press release and copyright proposals:
Update. Also see Stefan Krempl, Professoren schlagen Alarm wegen der Urheberrechtsnovelle, Heise online, April 20, 2007 |