Poverty & Public Policy is a new peer-reviewed OA journal published by the Policy Studies Organization and the Berkeley Electronic Press. The inaugural issue was released in March 2009.

The OA option for the hybrid video journal Journal of Visualized Experiments now includes a CC BY-NC license, making it eligible as a cost for authors funded by the Wellcome Trust and the UKPMC Funders Group. JoVE will also deposit OA articles in PMC for free access upon publication. See also our past posts on JoVE.

The Universidad Veracruzana library has launched a new IR. (Thanks to Juan Manuel Zurita Sánchez.)

Ray English, SPARC-Oberlin Group Webcast on Harvard Policy, SPARC, April 17, 2009.

Evie Browne, Creative Re-Use Demonstrates Power of Semantic Enhancement, Public Library of Science, April 16, 2009.

Mengfei Chen, Journals: The Cost of Free Access, New University , April 20, 2009.  This excerpt picks up after Chen discusses the MIT OA policy and rising journal prices: Comments " Tagler questioned whether MIT’s policy is really an open-access policy.  'The term is bandied around too often. Open Access is a model, MIT's policy is a repository,' Tagler said. "

Patrick Gaulé, Access to the scientific literature in India, CEMI Working Paper 2009-004 , February 23, 2009.

Kuang-hua Chen and Jieh Hsiang, The unique approach to institutional repository: Practice of National Taiwan University, The Electronic Library , 27, 2 (2009) pp. 204-221.  The DOI-based URL is not working.  Accessible only to subscribers, at least so far.  Abstract:

The World Atlas of Language Structures started life in 2005 as a £475 book from Oxford University Press, but now has an OA edition under a CC-BY-NC-ND license.  The OA edition is a joint production of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the Max Planck Digital Library. Comment .  Thanks to Robert Forkel via pampel and the OATP.

Abstracts of the presentations from the 32nd UKSG Annual Conference and Exhibition (Torquay, March 30 - April 1, 2009) are now online.  For example, see Jan Velterop, Beyond Open Access : Also see the Charlie Rapple's blog notes on Jan's presentation, from the conference blog.

Jane Kaye and four co-authors, Data sharing in genomics — re-shaping scientific practice, Nature Reviews Genetics , May 2009.  (Thanks to Garrett Eastman.)