Cathy S. Cavanaugh, Michael K. Barbour, and Tom Clark, Research and Practice in K-12 Online Learning: A Review of Open Access Literature, The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning , February 2009. Comment. This is the first literature review I've seen which deliberately limits itself to OA literature. Don't jump to conclusions about why the authors did it this way.
Tim Berners-Lee, The next Web of open, linked data, a 16:23 minute video of a TED talk, presented last month and posted this month.
M. Sreelata, Key Indian research organisation goes open access, SciDev.Net , March 13, 2009. Excerpt: PS: Also see our post on the CSIR decision, and all our past posts on CSIR.
The March issue of Igitur includes an interview with Astrid van Wesenbeeck about the U of Utrecht's Ivy Academic Search, its OA portal for veterinary medicine. PS: Also see our past post on this service.
The March issue of Libreas is now online. (Thanks to Klaus Graf.) Here are the OA-related articles.
Bob Butler has launched BestThinking. From today's announcement: Comments I welcome new ways to combine OA with user comments or ratings. But the phrase knowledge-based content reminds me of cheese-like product . When the announcement refers to the challenges of other open access websites , it seems to mean the challenges of Wikipedia.
Bill Hooker, Fooling around with numbers, part 3; or, why would anyone pay for these journals? Open Reading Frame , March 13, 2009. See the original post for graphics I'm omitting here. Excerpt: Update (3/14/09). Also see Heather Morrison's comment: Update (3/17/09). Also see Part 4 of Bill Hooker's inquiry. Update (3/19/09). ...And Part 5.
Stevan Harnad, Scaling to Global OA: Parallel Local Green/Gold Is OK, But Gold Alone First, No Way, Open Access Archivangelism , March 14, 2009.
The Open Knowledge Foundation has launched a Working Group on Open Data in Science.
Laurie Taylor, Piercemuller in Parliament, Times Higher Education Supplement , March 12, 2009. (Thanks to Colin Steele.)
The library faculty at Oregon State University have adopted an OA mandate. From today's announcement: From the policy text: From the policy guidelines: Comment. Kudos to the OSU Library Faculty Association (LFA) for this strong policy.