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The presentations from Repository Software Day 2009 (Manchester, March 19, 2009) are now online. See also these notes on the workshop.
The presentations from Repository Software Day 2009 (Manchester, March 19, 2009) are now online. See also these notes on the workshop.
Dennis Carter, MIT makes research available on the web, eSchool News , March 23, 2009.
The Heidelberg Appeal is a sign-on petition (in German) against Google Books which appeared recently on the web site of Heidelberg's Institut für Textkritik (ITK). The gist of it is that Google Books violates copyright and the freedom of authors.
Open Source Cinema has released its first open-source documentary, RiP: A Remix Manifesto. From the blurb: Kaltura, whose open-source technology helps power Open Source Cinema, calls RiP "the first legally remixable documentary about copyright and remix culture...." No surprise, viewers haven't wasted any time in remixing it.
Hal Abelson is the leading architect and entrepreneur behind the new OA mandate at MIT. Here's an article he wrote late last year, showing the process of persuasion at work. (Thanks to Jennifer Papin-Ramcharan.) Remember that this process of persuasion eventually yielded a unanimous faculty vote. Open Access Publishing: The Future of Scholarly Journal Publishing, MIT Faculty Newsletter , Nov/Dec 2008.
MIT opens access to its research articles, CBC News , March 20, 2009.
Tim Byrne, What’s in the OSTI Legacy Collection?, OSTIblog, March 20, 2009. See also our past posts on OSTI.
Michael J. Kurtz, et al., The Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Decennial Report, white paper submitted to the National Research Council Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, self-archived March 18, 2009. Abstract: See also our past posts on the ADS.
Jason Kincaid, Major Book Publishers Start Turning To Scribd, TechCrunch, March 17, 2009.
HHS Names David Blumenthal As National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, press release, March 20, 2009. Comment. What's the OA connection?
Maisha Kelly Freeman, et al., Google Scholar Versus PubMed in Locating Primary Literature to Answer Drug-Related Questions, Annals of Pharmacotherapy, March 3, 2009.