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.
Note this juxtaposition: On March 10, James Love at KEI learned the result of his January 31 FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request for access to the documents behind the notoriously secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations. The answer is no . Not only that, it's a no from from the Obama administration.
Aging is a new peer-reviewed OA journal by Impact Journals. The inaugural issue was released in January 2009. (Thanks to Chris Patil.) Articles are published under an unspecified "open-access license". There are no author-side fees for "high-impact" articles published as Priority Reports; author-side fees for "regular, high quality papers that are scientifically-sound and well technically performed" are not specified.
F.W. Dulle, Open Access Publishing: the emerging opportunity for wider dissemination of scholarly output, presented at PANTIL (Programme for Agricultural and Natural Resources Transformation for Improved Livelihoods) Annual Research Workshop, (Dodoma, Tanzania, October 6-9, 2008); self-archived March 11, 2009.
Diane Peters, Expanding the Public Domain: Part Zero, Creative Commons, March 11, 2009. See also our past posts on CC0.
Today is the 20th birthday of the world wide web.
Preben Hansen, Gunnar Ericsson and Oscar Täckström, Steps towards automatic acquisition and recognition of IPR conditions for parallel publishing, Swedish Institute of Computer Science , March 6, 2009. Excerpt: Comment . It's a pity we still haven't cracked this nut.
Bill Hooker, On science and selfishness, Open Reading Frame , March 11, 2009. The context is getting scientists to move from proprietary tools, like Microsoft Word, to open tools like Open Office. But this excerpt is useful well beyond that context: Comment . When I've said in the past that OA is moving slowly because researchers are preoccupied and overworked, this is 90% of what I meant.
The hybrid OA Bulletin of the History of Medicine now deposits its OA papers in PubMed Central. Within 24 hours they are mirrored UK PubMed Central.
Charles Auffray, Sharing knowledge: a new frontier for public-private partnerships in medicine, Genome Medicine , March 4, 2009. An editorial. Access to the full text requires free registration.
JISC has issued a call for proposals on a series of Rapid Innovation Grants. (Thanks to Charles Bailey.) Proposals are due at noon on April 22, 2009.