SWORD Wins Innovation Award at JISC Event, UKOLN, May 11, 2009.

The CARPET (Community for Academic Reviewing, Publishing and Editorial Technology) project officially launched on April 30.  From the about page: PS:  For background, see our post on CARPET from its initial announcement last November.

Scientific data repository gets $2.18 million boost, a press release from the University of North Carolina School of Library and Information Science, May 8, 2009.  (Thanks to Charles Bailey.)

Leticia Barrionuevo-Almuzara, Open Access: la información científica al alcance de la sociedad (Open Access: Scholarly Information at Society's Reach), presented at International Meeting of Experts in Information Theories (León, November 6-7 2008); self-archived May 10, 2009.

James Love, Prizes and Grants, Type I, II and III diseases, rich and poor countries, open and closed medicine development, Knowledge Ecology Notes, May 10, 2009. See also our past post on the "open source dividend".

Oliver Graute asked Herbert Reul, member of the European Parliament, for his views on OA.  Reul responded that he thinks OA and TA should compete in the market and that government should not intervene by setting policy.  Moreover, he likes browsing print books and journals.  (Thanks to Infobib.)  Read the exchange in German or Google's English.

Five Yale students have launched a web site on OA at Yale.  The site includes a proposed OA mandate modeled on the policies at Harvard, Stanford, and MIT.  It also includes the results of 17 faculty interviews about OA.  (The results show that many of the usual fears and misconceptions have not yet been answered for these 17.)  From the sub-page on Open Access at Yale: Update (5/12/09).

Cornell University Library Removes All Restrictions on Use of Public Domain Reproductions, a press release from Cornell (today).  Excerpt: Comment .  This is an exemplary policy.  The original books are in the public domain and the digitizers do not acquire new copyrights in the digital editions (at least under US law).  Hence, these digital editions are also in the public domain.

Bob Grant, Elsevier published 6 fake journals, The Scientist, May 7, 2009. Bill Hooker, More on the "Australasian Journal of..." series., Open Reading Frame, May 9, 2009. When is peer review not peer view? (hint: when Merck pays Elsevier), Small Gray Matters, May 8, 2009. Ben Goldacre, The danger of drugs … and data, The Guardian, May 9, 2009. Peter Murray-Rust, Trust in scientific publishing, A Scientist and the Web , May 9, 2009.

Cory Doctorow, Extreme Geek, Locus Online, May 9, 2009.

Philosophy & Theory in Biology is a forthcoming peer-reviewed OA journal. Authors retain copyright.