Bernard Rentier, Faux départ !, Bernard Rentier, Recteur, June 22, 2009. Read it in the original French or Google's English. See also our past posts on Enabling Open Scholarship and its predecessor, EurOpenScholar.
Jonathan Eisen, Another reason to publish as Open Access - libraries hurting big time financially and they will be cancelling many subscriptions, The Tree of Life, June 27, 2009.
Association of Research Libraries, Elsevier Motion to Block License Release Denied in Open-Records Decision, press release, June 23, 2009.
Neil Pakenham-Walsh, Why are publishers participating in developing country access initiatives?, post to the Healthcare Information For All by 2015 mailing list, June 30, 2009. See also our past posts on INASP and on developing country access initiatives, such as HINARI.
Malcolm Gladwell, Priced to Sell, New Yorker, July 6, 2009. A review of Chris Anderson's Free: The Past and Future of a Radical Price. See also our past posts on Anderson's Free.
The presentations from Open Access - What are the Economic Benefits?
Knowledge Exchange, Benefits of Open Access clearly outweigh costs in three European Countries, press release, July 1, 2009. See also our past posts on Houghton's research.
I just mailed the July issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter . This issue takes a close look at OA and the variety of digitization projects. How far can we defend the principle that the results of publicly-funded digitization projects should be OA? What if the public funds are supplemented by private funds? What if the works to be digitized are under copyright?
A Citation Services draft project proposal, drafted at a recent workshop in Amsterdam, is now soliciting feedback. For background, see posts by the JISC Information Environment Team and Alma Swan.
The Economic Development and Infrastructure Committee of the Parliament of Victoria, Australia on June 24 released the final report of its Inquiry into Improving Access to Victorian Public Sector Information and Data.
Matthew Cockerill, BioMed Central and Twitter, BioMed Central Blog, June 24, 2009.