Pfizer supports open access publishing for researchers in low-income countries, a press release from BioMed Central, May 5, 2009. Excerpt: Comments The pharma industry needs access to peer-reviewed biomedical research and (like universities) complains about skyrocketing TA journal prices.
African Journals OnLine (AJOL) is moving beyond OA TOCs to OA full-texts. (Thanks to Charles Bailey.)
Kristi L. Palmer, Emily Dill, and Charlene Christie, Where There’s a Will There’s a Way?: Survey of Academic Librarian Attitudes about Open Access, a preprint forthcoming from College & Research Libraries .
The Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) has adopted an OA policy for its research reports.
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) has summarized the results of its microfiche digitization project. From its April 27 announcement: Comment. This has been a massive digitization and permission-seeking project. Kudos to ERIC for undertaking it and batting 550.
Colin Macduff, An evaluation of the process and initial impact of disseminating a nursing e-thesis, Journal of Advanced Nursing , February 18, 2009. Abstract:
Tony Delamothe, The new BMJ online archive, BMJ , April 29, 2009. An editorial.
Institutions join hands to develop applied ethics journals, Information World Review , May 1, 2009. Excerpt: PS: Also see our past posts on Medknow and Globalethics.
BIO Members Committed to Ensuring Public Access to Key Clinical Trial Results, a press release from Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), May 4, 2009.
S. Bernius and M. Hanauske, Open access to scientific literature - Increasing citations as an incentive for authors to make their publications freely accessible, Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences , 2009. (The DOI-based URL doesn't work at the moment.) Accessible only to subscribers, at least so far. Update (5/6/09).
If you recall, last December the Library of Congress asked Ed Summers to take down his OA Library of Congress Subject Headings linked data service. At the time, Summers thought that the LOC might be considering offering a similar service of its own in the future. The LOC has launched its own service; it's OA and seems to be a real step forward.