Five more U.S. libraries signed on to SCOAP3: Carnegie Mellon University, Creighton University, Macalester College, Northeastern University, and the University of Kentucky. Columbia University joined the HathiTrust. The University of Rochester released version 1.0 of its repository software, IR+. The software that runs PLoS journals got an update.
OA journal announcements, launches, and conversions spotted in the past week or so: New OA journals: Préhistoires Méditerranéennes (announcement), successor to Préhistoire Anthropologie Méditerranéennes New OA backfiles: American Anthropologist, 1888-1974 (announcement) Ethos, 1973-1974 (announcement) PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 1973-1974 (announcement) New on PubMedCentral: Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery (1
Fiona Godlee, We want raw data, now, BMJ, December 10, 2009.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences will pay half the article processing charges for publications by its researchers in BioMed Central journals. Charles Bailey released a new version of his Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. Laura Briggs created a concept map of OA. PubMed Central has a new URL format. Heather Morrison compares the Open Content Alliance and Google Books.
John Timmer, US government looks to expand scientific open access policy, Ars Technica, December 14, 2009.
Richard Poynder, Open Access in 2009: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Open and Shut?, December 16, 2009.
Remedios Melero, et al., The situation of open access institutional repositories in Spain: 2009 report, Information Research, December 2009.
Péter Jacsó, DOAJ — Directory of Open Access Journals, Péter's Digital Reference Shelf, December 2009.
Scott Sayare, France to Digitize Its Own Literary Works, New York Times, December 14, 2009. Also see comments by Thomas Gideon.
Open Law Journals Group, Justification and Draft Principles for an Open Law Journals Group, SCRIPTed, December 15, 2009.
Cornell University Library Partners with the Internet Archive, press release, December 15, 2009. Comment. Compare, e.g., Yale, where digitization funded at the same time under the same Microsoft program but whose books have yet to find their way online.