Nicole Harris, Where is the I in Open Content?, JISC Access Management Team, April 14, 2009. Compares OA and OER on six axes: author identifiers, standards, preservation, added value, platform, and business model.
Bill Hooker, What's wrong with copyleft?, Open Reading Frame, April 15, 2009.
The Biblioteca Digital de Bioquímica y Farmacia is a new project from 10 university faculties in Argentina. The project will be advised by Bienes Comunes.
The District of Columbia Public Library has joined Flickr Commons. (Thanks to Klaus Graf.) See also our past posts on Flickr Commons.
I've started to tag new OA developments at Connotea. Over time I'd like to recruit others to do the same. If we work together, we'll notice many more new developments than any individual or smaller group could notice on its own. Everything we notice could be OA through a group feed. I call it the open access tracking project (OATP). Consider this the launch of the project beta.
Jason Stirnaman, Notes from Increasing Use and Content Through Creative Service-Repository Bundling, wire, April 15, 2009. Notes on Increasing Use and Content Through Creative Service Repository Bundling (online, April 15, 2009).
Reflections Upon: Open Access in a Closed Institution, OER@UCT, April 3, 2009.
Christian Zimmermann, Tips for authors to improve their RePEc ranking, The RePEc Blog, April 16, 2009.
e-spacioUNED, the IR at Spain's Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, is one year old. It has more than 19,000 OA deposits which have received more than 1 million downloads.
Carol Gorman reflects on the problem of drug industry marketeers ghostwriting one-sided articles for peer-reviewed journals. How can we prevent and detect the distortions? After mentioning several other steps, she concludes: PS: In short, open data is not just to accelerate research and facilitate replication.
The Deutsche Morgenlaendische Gesellschaft (German Oriental Society) has digitized its journal backfiles for OA. (Thanks to Klaus Graf.) Three of its four journals are no longer published, and ran from 1886-1938, 1922-1936, and 1922-1935. But the oldest was launched in 1847 and is still going strong. The digitization project was funded by the DFG.