Publicly funded research for a price, Marketplace (American public media), April 28, 2009. A four-minute radio story on the NIH policy and Conyers bill by Janet Babin. The web site contains a full transcript and comments from listeners.
Mike Rossner, A challenge to Goliath, Journal of Experimental Medicine , April 27, 2009. An editorial. Rossner is the Executive Director of Rockefeller University Press, and this editorial appeared in the latest issues of all three RUP journals -- Journal of Cell Biology, Journal of Experimental Medicine, and the Journal of General Physiology.
Peter Murray-Rust, Open Chemistry Data at NIST, A Scientist and the Web, April 24, 2009.
The US Senate has confirmed Kathleen Sebelius as the new US Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Comment . Here's a bit of what I said when President Obama nominated her in February:
Peter Murray-Rust, BioIT in Boston: What is Open?, A Scientist and the Web, April 27, 2009. Update. See also Where do we get Semantic Open Data?.
Daniel Cull, Exclusive: Interview with E-Conservation, Dan Cull Weblog, April 27, 2009. Interview with Rui Bordalo of e-conservation magazine.
A Medical Journal for the World's Health Priorities, PLoS Medicine Editors, editorial, April 28, 2009.
In discussing the vote at the University of Maryland, Philip Davis makes this claim: Comments Davis' link points to a Cornell study he authored in December 2004. The study calculated the costs to universities in a hypothetical world in which all peer-reviewed journals converted to OA, all charged publication fees, and all fees were paid by universities.
SPARC and ACRL have produced a new FAQ for CERN's SCOAP3 project. Excerpt: PS: SCOAP3 produced an FAQ for US libraries back in 2007. The new FAQ is an update of the old one, and CERN's links now point to the new edition.
The Globethics.net Library and the Open Access Movement, Globethics.net Newsletter , April 2009. An editorial.
Tíscar Lara, El papel de la Universidad en la construcción de su identidad digital, Revista de Universidad y Sociedad del Conocimiento , 6, 1 (2009).