Dennis G. Jerz, Open Source, Open Access, and Commons-Based Peer Production: Creating a Sustainable University Culture -- Computers and Writing 2009, Jerz's Literacy Weblog, June 20, 2009. Notes on a session at Computers and Writing 2009 (Davis, Calif., June 18-21, 2009).
The June 2009 issue of the Igitur Newsletter is now available. See especially: Increasing exposure and possibilities for reuse of information: the creative commons license Long-term preservation of Open Access journals secured Proefschriften Plus: enhanced dissertations In the Spotlight: Digital Student Thesis Archive Upload your publication in the Igitur Archive See also our past posts on Igitur.
Shu-Kun Lin, Full Open Access Journals Have Increased Impact Factors, editorial, Molecules, June 22, 2009.
Reports from the Association of American University Presses annual meeting (Philadelphia, June 18-21, 2009): Scott Jaschik, Change or Die?, Inside Higher Ed, June 22, 2009. Jennifer Howard, Scholarly Presses Discuss What It Takes to Survive, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 22, 2009. Access restricted to subscribers.
Amy Kohrman, Momentum grows for long-term preservation strategy of digital content, Letter of the LAA, Spring 2009. The article is on page 10 of the PDF. See also our past posts on CLOCKSS.
Jörg Tauss, a member of Germany's Bundestag, resigned his membership in the Social Democratic Party and joined the Pirate Party on June 20. See English coverage by the AP, The Local, or TorrentFreak. (Thanks to Matthias Spielkamp.) Tauss left the SPD due to disagreement with its approach to Internet censorship. Tauss, who is under investigation for possession of child pornography, has said he will not seek re-election.
Roehampton University has adopted an OA mandate. (Thanks to Stevan Harnad.) Deposits are hosted in the Roehampton University Research Repository. See also the policy and accompanying Further Guidance document, both dated November 4, 2008.
I'll be on the road all this week (Mon-Sat, June 22-27) with few opportunities for blogging or email.
Niha S. Jain, Ed School Faculty Endorse Open Access, Harvard Crimson , June 20, 2009.
Gunther Eysenbach, Open Access journal JMIR rises to top of its discipline, Gunther Eysenbach's Random Research Rants , June 20, 2009. Excerpt: Comment . The OA impact advantage helps journals, not just authors. TA journals may have their reasons not to convert to OA, but they can't pretend that there's nothing in the other pan of the scale. Congratulations to JMIR and Gunther.
The Internet Rights and Principles Coalition of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is organizing the wiki-based revision of the Internet Rights Charter, originally drafted by the Association for Progressive Communications. The charter supports OA for publicly-funded research as a right. Also see our post on the charter's last revision in November 2006.