The presentations from Che cos'è l'Open Access?

Living Reviews in Democracy is a new peer-reviewed OA journal published by the Center for Comparative and International Studies at ETH Zurich and the National Center of Competence in Research Democracy at the University of Zurich. See also this announcement.

Denise Rosemary Nicholson, Digital Rights Management and Access to Information: a developing country’s perspective, Libres , March 2009.

Iryna Kuchma reports that there are three institutional OA mandates in Russia: (1) The first, at the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is not new.  Its mandate was adopted in 2007.  But the other two are new, at least for OAN: (2) Vologda scientific-coordination center of the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences.

Four important research institutions have signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge. (Thanks to Anja Lengenfelder.) Science Foundation Ireland (February 16, 2009) University of Patras (February 12, 2009) Research Council of Norway (January 28, 2009) Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (November 10, 2008) Comment. The first and third already have OA mandates (blogged here and here).

Ellen Miller, Top 10 Measurements for Transparency, The Sunlight Foundation Blog, April 5, 2009. What's #1?

Techné Interviews Public Printer Candidate Carl Malamud, Techné, March 29, 2009.

Marek Nahotko, Open Access – zagrożenia i szanse dla bibliotekarzy, Biuletyn EBIB, August/September 2008; self-archived April 8, 2009. English abstract: Marek Nahotko, Zalety i wady Open Access – mity i rzeczywistość, Biuletyn EBIB, August/September 2008; self-archived April 8, 2009.

David Bollier, Unleashing Public Sector Information, OnTheCommons.org, April 7, 2009. See also our past post on the conference.

The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration has released a call for comments on systems for preserving and providing access to presidential records. Comments are due by April 17, 2009 and can be submitted by email.

Gideon Burton, Conventional Scholarship as "Legacy System" and Open Access as "Middleware", Academic Evolution, April 7, 2009.