The UKSG LiveSerials blog is covering the annual UKSG Conference (Torquay, March 30 - April 1, 2009). Some highlights: Kirsty Meddings on Ahmed Hindawi: Ginny Hendricks on Derk Haank: PS: See our past post on last week's rumors that Springer was for sale.
Uwe Thomas Müller, Peer-Review-Verfahren zur Qualitätssicherung von Open-Access-Zeitschriften – systematische Klassifikation und empirische Untersuchung, a doctoral dissertation at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, January 22, 2009. (Thanks to David Solomon.)
The Research Information Network (RIN) has released a two-page analysis of the effect of the economic meltdown on research access, Scholarly books and journals at risk, March 2009. From the statement: Comment . The topic is important and the analysis timid.
Elsevier has announced the three prize winners in its Article 2.0 contest. From the announcement: PS: There isn't a strong OA connection. But we blogged the contest at earlier stages (1, 2), and I wanted to blog the results as well. Congratulations to Surguy, Ambroziak, and Chalk.
Molly Kleinman, Lessons from Open Access Week, Molly Kleinman , March 30, 2009. Update (3/31/09). Also see Stevan Harnad's comments.
Antarctic marine biodiversity data now online, press release, March 31, 2009.
Common Chemistry is a gratis beta resource from the Chemical Abstracts Service which contains CAS Registry Numbers for approximately 7,800 chemicals of interest to the public. See also comments by Antony Williams: See also our past posts on the Chemical Abstracts Service.
Marydee Ojala, DRM, Copyright, Creative Commons, Info Today Blog, March 30, 2009. Notes on a session at Computers in Libraries 2009 (Arlington, Va., March 30-April 1, 2009).
John Willinsky, Open Access Policies and Practices for Increasing Scholarly Contributions, presentation at the University of Kansas, February 19, 2009.
DIAL (Dépôt Institutionnel de l'Académie universitaire 'Louvain') is the new multi-institutional IR for the Académie 'Louvain' (composed of the Facultés universitaires catholiques de Mons, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix à Namur, Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, and the Université catholique de Louvain). (Thanks to Fabrizio Tinti.) The history and context section of the repository notes that the Université catholique de
The Repositories Support Project has launched a podcast feature. The initial podcasts are on EPrints, DRIVER, preservation, and Fedora.