The presentations from the Ural State University seminar, Scientific knowledge in the digital age: Open Access and Open repositories (Yekaterinburg, Russia, December 1-2, 2008), are now online. They may have been up for a while, but I just noticed them (thanks to Sybski). Read the program in Russian or Google's English.
Declan Butler, The textbook of the future, Nature , April 1, 2009. Accessible only to subscribers.
Matthew Cockerill, Universities UK/Research Information Network report recommends creation of central instititutional funds to cover open access publication charges, BMC Blog , April 2, 2009. Excerpt: PS: Also see my own comments on the RIN report.
Michael Nielsen, Information Awakening, Nature Physics , April 2009. Accessible only to subscribers, at least at least so far. (Thanks to Garrett Eastman.) Update . Michael blogged an earlier (and OA) version of this article in January.
The EPT blog has posted a 6:24 minute video of Leslie Chan interviewing Subbiah Arunachalam on OA in India. The interview was taped at last week's CSIR Conference on Open Access to Science Publications (New Delhi, March 24, 2009).
Katherine Allen, Springer Is Not for Sale, Says CEO, Information Today NewsBreaks , April 2, 2009. Excerpt: Comment I don't know where Haank's 3% estimate comes from. But note that it's intended capture gold OA ("articles published as open access"), not green or green + gold OA. Today, about 16% of peer-reviewed journals are OA.
Péter Jacsó, ticTOCs, Péter's Digital Reference Shelf, April 2009. A review of the OA ticTOCs current awareness service. (Thanks to ResourceShelf.) See also our past posts on ticTOCs.
Robert Kiley, Open access licence: researcher opinion sought, UKPMC Blog , April 1, 2009. Excerpt: PS: Presently, there are 5 comments on this blog post.
The National Science Digital Library has released EduPak 1.0. (Thanks to Charles Bailey.)
The Alexandria Archive Institute is conducting a survey on user needs relating to web publication of archaeological content. An overview of the survey results will be posted in May.
The Land Library of Saxony - State and University Library Dresden announced on March 31 it would add 250,000 images to Wikimedia Commons under the Creative Commons BY-SA license. (Thanks to Klaus Graf.) See also the announcement at Creative Commons. See also our past post on the similar announcement from the German Federal Archive on adding 100,000 of its images to Wikimedia Commons.