Open Access Week is coming up on October 19-23, 2009. Here's a taste of what's coming: DuraSpace is looking for repository success stories to highlight during OA Week. The deadline for entries is September 28. SPARC is hosting a pre-OA Week Webcast on student engagement on September 30. The Repositories Support Project is holding a contest to find the UK university which receives the most deposits in its IR during OA Week.
SPARC, Changing the Game: Pioneers Report on Efforts to Support Open-Access Publication, press release, September 24, 2009.
Iryna Kuchma, The first open access repository in Belarus – Belarusian State University Digital Library, EIFL, September 23, 2009.
COAR: Confederation of Open Access Repositories, DRIVER, apparently recent.
Warna Oosterbaan, ‘Maak wetenschappelijke publicaties openbaar’, NRC Handelsblad, August 1, 2009. SPARC Europe today posted an English translation: Plasterk is Minister for Education, Culture and Science in the current Dutch government. Also see: Open Wetenschap, NRC Handelsblad blog, August 1, 2009. A pro-OA editorial on the newspaper's blog.
Randy Schekman, PNAS takes action regarding breach of NIH embargo policy on a PNAS paper, editorial, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 18, 2009. Alan E. Guttmacher, Elizabeth G. Nabel, and Francis S. Collins, Why data-sharing policies matter, editorial, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 18, 2009.
The presidents of 57 liberal arts colleges in the U.S. today released a letter supporting the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2009 (FRPAA, S.1373). The colleges are members of the Oberlin Group of Libraries.
After a premature launch in June, Enabling Open Scholarship launched today. From the press release: See also our past posts on Enabling Open Scholarship and its predecessor, EurOpenScholar.
Earlier this week, we posted the latest news on the transfer of the OAIster metadata harvester to OCLC, including some points of confusion and contention. Roy Tennant of OCLC has posted two updates to clarify and defend OCLC's actions: Roy Tennant, The Straight Dope on OAIster, HangingTogether, September 21, 2009. Roy Tennant, Clarification on OCLC/OAIster Transfer, HangingTogether, September 23, 2009.
The International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications recently released its Autumn 2009 newsletter, which highlights INASP's Journals Online (JOLs) project. The JOLs provide a low-cost online publishing platform (based on Open Journal Systems) and capacity building for journals in developing countries, with the goal of providing OA to the journals' full text. Excerpt: Pakistan is also being considered for a JOL.
The plaintiffs in the Google Book Search settlement today filed a motion with the court asking to delay the fairness hearing, scheduled for October 7. In a memo accompanying the motion, the plaintiffs explain that they are amending the preliminary settlement in light of discussions with the U.S. Department of Justice. From the memo: Comment. This could be big.