For the past two years, my work on Open Access News has been funded by SPARC. My funding ends today, and with it my tenure at OAN. I'll leave it to Peter to say what becomes of OAN from here. The Open Access Tracking Project, which we launched last year, continues.
PLoS launched a new collection of research from the Tagging of Pacific Predators group of the Census of Marine Life. The National Library of Finland made two of its catalogs OA: LINDA, the union catalog of Finnish university libraries, and ARTO, an index of Finnish scholarly journals. Lars Juhl Jensen looks for correlations among PLoS' article-level metrics.
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, NIDCR Launches the FaceBase Consortium, press release, October 5, 2009.
Draft of an Open Data Commons Attribution License, Open Data Commons, January 11, 2010.
U.S. House Science and Technology Committee, Report Finds Common Ground in Efforts to Balance Public Access, Scholarly Publishing, press release, January 13, 2010.
David Crotty, Going Legit: The Difficult Path from Piracy to Partnership, The Scholarly Kitchen, January 13, 2010.
Maney Publishing launches open access model, press release, January 15, 2010.
SPARC honors Optical Society of America as a pioneer in scholarly publishing innovation, press release, January 14, 2010.
OA journal announcements, launches, and conversions spotted in the past week: New OA journals: Silence (announcement) Codex: the Journal of the Louisiana Chapter of the ACRL (announcement) Converted to OA: Journal of Korean Medical Science (announcement) Recherches en psychanalyse (announcement) Revue géographique de l’Est (announcement) Converted to delayed OA: Formation emploi (announcement) (2 year
The Institute of Cancer Research has begun asking its researchers to contribute their publications to the IR. BMC journal Cancer Cell International has been accepted for indexing by Thomson Reuters and will receive its first impact factor this year. BioMed Central announced partnerships with CLOCKSS and Portico for preservation of its journals' contents. Lawrence Lessig lectures on "Open Content and the Ethics of Science".
Eric Pfanner, France Offers Google Its Books in Exchange for Tax, New York Times, January 14, 2010. The report is available here (in French).