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Kaitlin Thaney, $120m - will it help, and a look at the greater issues, Sniffing the beaker , May 29, 2009.  Thaney is the project manager at Science Commons.  Excerpt: PS:  Note that Francis Collins may soon be the next Director of the NIH.

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In January (or so) the US government released DataFerrett, a free tool for searching, browsing, combining, and analyzing open data released by the federal government.  DataFerrett can draw data from many different sources, display it in graphs or tables, and produce reports.

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The Journal of New Frontiers in Spatial Concepts is a new peer-reviewed OA journal from the Karlsruhe University Press.  Though the journal has been publishing articles since February 2009, in German and English, it will not officially launch until June 9.  It's Karlsruhe's first online journal. Also see the announcement in German or Google's English.

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Robert Kiley, Open Access Mandates:  View from the Wellcome Trust, a slide presentation from today's RIN/RSP meeting, Research in the open: How mandates work in practice (London, May 29, 2009).  The other presentations are not yet online.