Ethnologia Europaea has decided to provide OA to its back issues, with a three-year moving wall. However, it has only digitized its file back to 2004. It's still looking for funds to digitize the issues from 1966-2004.
I forgot to mention that yesterday was the 7th birthday of OAN. Yesterday we had 17,391 posts, which comes to about 7 a day for 7 years.
Charles Bailey has posted a roundup of links to blog coverage of Open Repositories 2009 (Atlanta, May 18-21, 2009). Update. See also notes by Elliot Metsger, Peter Murray-Rust, and Les Carr.
Francis Collins said to be contender to run NIH, Los Angeles Times , May 23, 2009. Excerpt: Comments. This matters for two reasons: Collins is not just a leader in mapping the human genome, but in making the results OA. He has also defended OA at the NIH's PubChem against anti-OA lobbying by the ACS.
City of Vancouver embraces open data, standards and source, CBC News, May 22, 2009. (Thanks to Michael Geist.) See also our past post. Toronto Announces Open Data Plan at Mesh09, Visible Government, April 13, 2009.
On May 8, Elizabeth Pisani released the first draft of the Bamako data sharing code of conduct. The code arose from last year's Global Ministerial Forum on Research for Health (Bamako, Mali, November 17-19, 2008), where participants formulated the Bamako Call to Action on Research for Health, which included a call for "open and equitable access to research data, tools, and information...."
William New, Broad Plan On IP, Innovation In Developing Countries Approved At WHO, Intellectual Property Watch, May 22, 2009. Comments. Background: The World Health Assembly, the governing body for the World Health Organization, formally approved the Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property. The broad plan was drafted and revised through a working group over several years.
Rick Mullin, Merck Seeds An Open Database With Computers And Data, Chemical & Engineering News, May 25, 2009. See also another story in the same issue on the use of cloud computing for research, including its use at Sage and comments by John Wilbanks. See also our past posts on Sage. Update. Schadt has announced he'll be taking a new day job rather than working at Sage full-time.
Nicky Cashman, CADAIR's 2000, posted to JISC-REPOSITORIES, May 22, 2009.
Jo Walsh, INSPIRE Directive heading towards UK law, Open Knowledge Foundation Blog, May 24, 2009.
Elizabeth Pennisi, Group Calls for Rapid Release of More Genomics Data, Science , May 22, 2009. (Thanks to Garrett Eastman.) Accessible only to subscribers. Excerpt: PS: I can't find a web site for last week's data-release workshop in Toronto where the new guidelines were taking shape. If anyone can help, please drop me a line and I'll update this post.