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.
I just mailed the April issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter . This issue takes a close look at 25 misunderstandings about open access. The round-up section briefly notes 158 OA developments March.
New members of the Directory of Open Access Journals: Bart Jaspers Ebsco
Anup Kumar Das, Open Access to Research Literature in India: Contemporary Scenario, ISSI Newsletter, 2009; self-archived April 1, 2009.
The PubMed Central journal list now includes additional information on a single page: ISSN If the journal contains some or all libre OA content (see the PMC Open Access Subset) Participation level: Full: The journal deposits all articles from each issue. NIH Portfolio: The journal deposits at least all NIH-funded articles, but may not include all of the journal's articles.
Pat Lohmann, Students mourn outdated textbooks, New Mexico Daily Lobo, March 26, 2009.
Anna Creech, CIL 2009: Open Access: Green and Gold, eclectic librarian, March 31, 2009. Notes on a session at Computers in Libraries 2009 (Arlington, Va., March 30-April 1, 2009). See also our past post on the conference.
David Tarrant, et al., Using OAI-ORE to Transform Digital Repositories into Interoperable Storage and Services Applications, Code4Lib Journal, March 30, 2009.
The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid adopted an OA policy on February 25, 2009. The policy applies to requests for funding to create or improve Web sites for the university's institutes and research groups. Applications for such funding from the must indicate whether the group will commit to self-archive its research results in the UC3M IR; commitment will figure in the evaluation of applications.
Donat Agosti and Willi Egloff, Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach, BMC Research Notes , March 30, 2009. Abstract: PS: Also see our past posts on Plazi.
Heather Morrison, Dramatic Growth of Open Access: March 31, 2009, Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics , March 31, 2009.