Timothy K. Armstrong, An Introduction to Publication Agreements for Authors, a hand-out for a workshop, May 13, 2009. Armstrong is a copyright specialist at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Comment . This is a very good primer for authors who don't understand copyright or why they should try to retain rights.
Stevan Harnad, Heidelberg Appeal Peeled, Open Access Archivangelism , May 5, 2009.
Several partners are running a survey of OA repositories in developing countries.
Peter Sefton, Three big hairy audacious goals for an open USQ, ptsefton, May 5, 2009.
Version 1.0 of MOAI Server was released on May 4, 2009.
Antony Williams, Open Chemistry Presentations at the Bio-IT Conference and a Nomination for An Award, ChemSpider Blog, April 30, 2009. Notes on the Bio-IT World Conference (Boston, April 27-29, 2009).
Felipe Raimann Arias, Open Access Journals, CEASonido, March 28, 2009. A discussion (in Spanish) of OA journals in sound and acoustics.
Michael Banks, Tweet your preprints, Physics World, April 28, 2009.
Two days ago, BMC announced that Pfizer had set up a fund to pay publication fees for scientists from developing countries who publish in BMC journals. (See my blog post and comments.) A short article in yesterday's Pharma Times adds a new detail: Pfizer also bought a BMC institutional membership to cover its own scientists when they publish in BMC journals. Comments
University of Texas at Arlington Library, Librarian vs. Stereotype : Scholarly Communication, YouTube, April 10, 2009. A 1-minute video encouraging faculty to contact librarians for help with scholarly communication issues.
Jill Hurst-Wahl, CIL2009: Flickr Commons for Libraries and Museums, Digitization 101, March 30, 2009. Notes on a session at Computers in Libraries 2009 (Arlington, Va., March 30-April 1, 2009). See also our past posts on the conference (1, 2).