The Open Access Directory (OAD) has opened a set of lists on the Open access tracking project (OATP) for community editing. OATP is the collaborative tagging project I launched in beta about two weeks ago. The new OAD page will function as the project home page. The new home page supports user-maintained lists of project links (including feeds), project tags, project mashups, and (shortly) a project FAQ.
Three journals have joined Revues.org recently;
María del Rosario Tissera, Repositorios institucionales en bibliotecas académicas, apparently a pre-print, self-archived April 30, 2009.
Christian Zimmermann, RePEc Author Service now 20,000 strong, The RePEc Blog, April 30, 2009.
David Weinberger, Pros and cons of the Google book deal, KM World , May 1, 2009.
Bill Hooker, Open Access, copyright transfer and NC licensing: caveat emptor! Open Reading Frame , May 1, 2009. Excerpt: Comments I'm sure Bill is right that some OA journals offering gratis OA rather than libre OA are hoping to sell reprints. It restricts use, re-use, and users, but at least it's a reason and at least it provides a revenue stream to support the journal's expenses.
The Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) is a new OA repository of refereed conference proceedings in CS. See yesterday's announcement. (Thanks to Michael Greenburg.)
Harnessing open innovation, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery , May 2009. Accessible only to subscribers. (Thanks to Garrett Eastman.) Excerpt: PS: Also see our past posts on Sage and pre-competitive sharing.
Amazon Web Services has launched AWS in Education, a set of programs including grants for free use of AWS for research purposes (such as providing OA to large datasets). (Thanks to Charles Bailey.) See also our past posts on AWS: Amazon gets into the data hosting business Google pulls plug on Palimpsest project New storage features for EPrints Freebase and Wikipedia on Amazon Web Services
The Oriental Institute has released OA editions of 11 documents originally published 1929-1992. (Thanks to Charles Ellwood Jones.) The Institute is also developing an OA database of its collection of pottery sherds and providing OA to recordings of some of its members' lectures. See also our past posts on the Oriental Institute.
The IR at University College Dublin has passed 1,000 items.