The EC has set up a six-member panel to evaluate the European Research Council (ERC). From the February 24 announcement: Comments If you recall, the European Research Council (ERC) launched in February 2007, having already pledged to adopt an OA mandate in December 2006. It's the only funding agency I know which committed to OA before its own launch.
The Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication has updated two of the FAQs on the university's OA mandates. I'm not posting all the new language, just the new answers to two existing questions: From the Policy FAQ: From the Procedural FAQ: Comment . The new language makes clear that the Harvard policies expect deposit even when faculty members obtain waivers and do not or cannot authorize OA.
Walt Warnick, Science Depends on the Diffusion of Knowledge, OSTI blog , March 5, 2009. Warnick is the Director of the Office of Scientific & Technical Information (OSTI) of the US Department of Energy. Excerpt: PS: Also see our past posts on OSTI's research on knowledge diffusion.
Sally Whittle, Access all areas: the economic benefits of Open Access, JISC Inform 24 , March 2, 2009. Excerpt: PS: See our post on Houghton's latest study and all our past posts on his research on the economic impact of OA.
M. Castillo, Citations and Open Access: Questionable Benefits, American Journal of Neuroradiology , February 2009. An editorial. Not even an abstract is free online, at least so far. PS: When this journal introduced an OA option last November, Castillo's editorial about it was also TA.
Roberto Caso, L’Open Access alle pubblicazioni scientifiche: una nuova speranza, apparently a preprint, self-archived February 3, 2009. In Italian without an English abstract.
Rep. John Conyers, A Reply to Larry Lessig, Huffington Post , March 6, 2009. Excerpt: Comment. I posted a response at the Huffington Post . But it's limited to 250 words and does not support links. Here's the unabridged version with live links.
FairShare is a new site to help authors track the re-use of their CC-licensed work. (Thanks to Creative Commons.) Update (3/19/09). See also this story from ContentBlogger.
The presentations from RSP Winter School 2009 (Lanark, Scotland, February 25-27, 2009) are now online.
Elie Dolgin, Upping access to open access, The Scientist, March 5, 2009. (Free registration required.) Discusses recent actions at the University of California, Harvard University, Boston University, Griffith University, Nottingham University, and University of Calgary, among others, including OA policies and OA journals funds.
Carol Cruzan Morton, New Open-access Policy Under Discussion, Focus Online (News from the Harvard Medical, Dental, and Public Health Schools), March 6, 2009. Excerpt: Comment. We already knew that Harvard Medical School was developing an OA mandate. But a couple of the details here are new and important.