Victoria Henson-Apollonio, Kay Chapman, and Sebastian Derwisch, Some IP challenges in the developing world; and what is being done, Open and Shut ? April 19, 2009. Excerpt: PS: Also see our past posts on CGIAR.
The current issue of European Review has a section on OA. (Thanks to Russ Swan.) Gerard Van Trier, Focus: Scholarly Publishing and Open Access Michael A. Mabe, Scholarly Publishing Dieter M. Imboden, Scientific Publishing: the Dilemma of Research Funding Organisations Robert Aymar, Scholarly Communication in High-Energy Physics: Past, Present and Future Innovations Paul Ayris, New Wine in Old Bottles: Current Developments in Digital Delivery and
More than 30,000 full-text articles are now OA via Medknow journals.
A group of European and Latin American organizations have launched Project NECOBELAC.
Stevan Harnad, Open access scientometrics and the UK Research Assessment Exercise, Scientometrics , April 2009. The publisher's edition is accessible only to subscribers. PS: While the journal dates this issue April 2009, it published this article online on November 14, 2008. Also see the OA preprint, which we blogged in March 2007.
The University of Virginia Faculty Senate considered an OA resolution on April 8. (Thanks to iNODE via Charles Bailey.) From the resolution: Comments Kudos to the UVa Task Force on Scholarly Publication and Authors' Rights for bringing this forward. The Faculty Senate minutes are not yet online.
The Open Knowledge Foundation has launched the European Open Data Inventory.
The Association for Laboratory Automation has adopted a delayed OA policy, with a two-year moving wall, for the scientific articles in the Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation (published by Elsevier). Non-scientific content is OA without delay. The OA content will be posted to JALA Online.
Eve Gray, IPR Bill Regulations promulgated - the death knell for open science in South Africa? Gray Area , April 21, 2009. Excerpt: PS: Also see our past posts (1, 2) of Eve Gray's coverage of South African legislation that would smother OA.
Mathias Hatakka, Build it and They Will Come? – Inhibiting Factors for Reuse of Open Content in Developing Countries, The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries , 2009.
Nathan Yergler, Open Access and Linked Data, yergler.net, April 20, 2009.