SURFdirect and Creative Commons Netherlands chose the Creative Commons Attribution license as its recommended license for education and research. From the English version of the report: Meanwhile, ccLearn published a data supplement to its report, What status for “open”? (see our past post).
In July, 11 more journals were approved to join Revues.org as OA or delayed OA journals: see the first and second list. Four other journals inaugurated their site on Revues.org in July: Atalaya, revue d'études médiévales romanes Crime, Histoire & Sociétés Genre, sexualité & société Genre &
From RePEc's July 2009 update, six more archives joined RePEc: Universidad de los Andes, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (II), Spiru Haret University Brasov, Austrian Academy of Sciences, ETH Zürich (III), and the German Council for Social and Economic Data. Universidad de los Andes is the first participating archive from Venezuela, bringing the tally of RePEc participating countries to 68.
Marion Jensen, End of an Era, Chickens Don't Have Armpits, June 18, 2009.
Stuart Shieber, Publishers cooperating with the Harvard OA policy, The Occasional Pamphlet, July 28, 2009.
Stuart M. Shieber, Equity for Open-Access Journal Publishing, PLoS Biology, August 4, 2009.
The Access to Knowledge Initiative is a new project at Brigham Young University's McKay School of Education.
Jon Cartwright, Fledgling site challenges arXiv server, physicsworld.com, July 15, 2009. See also this related post on physicsworld.com.
SCOAP 3 , More U.S. libraries support SCOAP 3 , announcement, August 4, 2009.
SPARC, SPARC Calls on Campuses to Coordinate Open-Access Policy Efforts, press release, August 5, 2009. Disclosure: I served as a paid consultant in developing these resources.
The U.S. Senate today confirmed Francis Collins to head the National Institutes of Health. The Scientist notes that Comment. As I noted in our post on the nomination: We can be thankful that the Senate confirmed the nomination, and quickly. If there's any drawback, it's that the lack of a hearing means a missed chance for Collins to explain his views on OA to Congress and the public in a high-profile forum.