The Deutsche Morgenlaendische Gesellschaft (German Oriental Society) has digitized its journal backfiles for OA. (Thanks to Klaus Graf.) Three of its four journals are no longer published, and ran from 1886-1938, 1922-1936, and 1922-1935. But the oldest was launched in 1847 and is still going strong. The digitization project was funded by the DFG.
Uwe Jochum, Was "Open Access" kostet: Ein Beispiel aus den Geisteswissenschaften, TextKritik , March 22, 2009. PS: Thanks to Klaus Graf for noticing, and for pointing out, that Jochum assumes that all OA journals charge publication fees, when of course most do not.
The presentations from I Jornadas Interuniversitarias de la Comunidad Valenciana sobre Acceso Abierto al Conocimiento (Valencia, March 24, 2009) are now online.
The presentations from Les thèses électroniques: réglementation, gestion, diffusion (Nancy, March 26, 2009) are now online.
Tens of Thousands of Open Access Digitized Books Now Available Through the Prospector Catalog, press release, April 10, 2009. See also our past posts on HathiTrust.
Mark Turner, Announcing New Cognitive Science Network, Social Science Research Network, April 14, 2009.
The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) has added several significant improvements. For example, it now displays the OA repositories it harvests by continent and country. Each country on the map of Europe, for example, shows the number of that country's repositories in the BASE index.
Denise Troll Covey, Self-Archiving Journal Articles: A Case Study of Faculty Practice and Missed Opportunity, Portal , April 2009. (Thanks to Charles Bailey.) PS: The published edition is not OA, but a preprint from July 2008 is OA.
Charlotte Webber, Open access research celebrated at BioMed Central's Research Awards ceremony, BioMed Central Blog, April 15, 2009.
J. Paul Lomio, Law Journals and Open Access: A Call to Action, Speaking of Computers, April 13, 2009. See also our past post on the Durham Statement.
Welcome to the World of OER!, OER@UCT, April 1, 2009.