UK PubMed Central launched a blog on March 2. Already it's posted several developments which I haven't seen elsewhere: March 2: The Company of Biologists (COB) has adopted a hybrid OA option. More, when COB publishes articles subject to funder policies requiring deposit in PMC or UKPMC, COB will make the deposits itself. March 4: The European Journal of Human Genetics has adopted a hybrid OA option. March 4:
Vivek Kundra has been named the new Federal Chief Information Officer . We had previously reported on rumors that Kundra would be the new e-government administrator at the Office of Management and Budget; the CIO position appears to be new. Kundra is a noted advocate of opening government data. Thomas Kalil has been appointed the new associate director for policy for the Office of Science and Technology Policy, The Wonk Room reports.
Jeremy Donald, Openness: Fostering Sharing, Collaboration, and Open Access to Knowledge and Resources - Notes, EDUCAUSE Connect, March 6, 2009. Notes on a session at the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference (San Antonio, February 24-26, 2009).
The backfiles of the Revista de Derecho, Universidad de Concepción, to 1933, went OA in June 2008. Free registration is required.
The backfiles of the Indian Journal of Psychiatry, to 1958, are now OA.
Virginia Releases Physics Flexbook for Public Review, press release, February 27, 2009. See also coverage at: Government Computer News ZDNet Maximum PC Converge See also our past post on the flexbook.
Peter Murray-Rust, Wellcome gets tough on Open Access depositions, A Scientist and the Web , March 7, 2009. See also our past post on the Wellcome compliance audit.
The International Journal for Ayurveda Research is a new peer-reviewed OA journal published by the Indian Department of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy and Medknow. There are no author-side charges. Re-use with attribution is permitted for non-commercial purposes.
GREDOS (Gestión del REpositorio DOcumental de la Universidad de Salamanca) is the new IR at the University of Salamanca.
Mendeley has announced plans to become interoperable with CiteULike (February 16) and $2 million in venture capital (February 25). From the second announcement: Here's more on the OA connection from Mendeley Founder and Director, Victor Henning, quoted with his permission: PS: Also see our past posts on Mendeley.
Acting quickly, Germany's Prometheus image archive launched a special OA collection, Das digitale Historische Archiv Köln, to host and protect digital copies of documents from the Köln (Cologne) city archives, which collapsed on March 3. The new archive is calling for help in collecting documents on the history of Cologne.