On February 10, SURF announced the Kick Off (in Dutch) of the Dutch Open Access Year. (For some reason, Google Translate doesn't accept the page, but here's the link to the English translation in case the problem is merely temporary.) Last November 28, the Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam hosted a mini-symposium to anticipate OA Year. The presentations are now online.
Open Access Journal of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants is a forthcoming peer-reviewed OA journal published by the Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Association of India. Authors retain copyright and articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution No Derivative License. The article-processing charge ("publication donation") is 500 Indian rupees or $25 U.S. for authors who are not society members.
Álvaro Cabezas-Clavijo, et al., Ciencia 2.0: catálogo de herramientas e implicaciones para la actividad investigadora, El Profesional de la Informacion, January-February 2009. See also the OA preprint. English abstract: See also the comments in Spanish by Luis Javier Martínez Rodríguez.
Leslie Carr, The Cloud, the Researcher and the Repository, RepositoryMan, February 21, 2009. Update. See also the comments by Wally Grotophorst and Dorothea Salo.
The Council of Editors of Learned Journals has launched a blog on principles for the future of scholarly journals.
The OA database Freebase is approaching 5 million topics. See also our past posts on Freebase.
The Göttingen Journal of International Law is a new peer-reviewed, student-edited OA journal published in English by the University of Göttingen. The inaugural issue is now available.
The Wales Higher Education Libraries Forum (WHELF) has launched the Welsh Repository Network. From Friday's announcement: Today the project released the Repository Hardware Case Studies, released today.
Texas A&M University is considering an OA policy. For details, see this report on its recent symposium, The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communication In the Digital Age (College Station, Texas, February 11-13, 2009). Excerpt: PS: Also see our past posts on the OA activity at Texas A&M.
Library Philosophy and Practice is celebrating its 10th anniversary as a peer-reviewed journal.
John Murphy, Acquisition raises profile of open-access publishing, Research Information , February/March 2009.