Jan Velterop, Industry-funded research IFfy? The Parachute , February 14, 2009. Excerpt: Comment . Jan's hypothesis suggests a fascinating and potentially testable way to generalize the thesis behind the OA impact advantage: any kind of increased access should also increase impact . OA increases access in a large and conspicuous way.
James A. Evans and Jacob Reimer, Open Access and Global Participation in Science, Science Magazine , February 20, 2009. (The DOI-based URL is broken, at least for now.) Only this abstract is free online, at least so far: Also see Stevan Harnad's comments.
Scott Jaschik, Pirates vs. University Presses, Inside Higher Ed, February 18, 2009. N.B. Several comments on the article suggest OA as an alternative.
Catherine Simpson, Online freedom, The Diamondback, February 19, 2009. The Diamondback is a student newspaper at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Reports from the JISC Developer Happiness Days (London, February 9-13, 2009) are highlighting new repository technologies, e.g.: Michelle Pauli, Cool code: EPrints export plug in allows preview magic, dev8d, February 13, 2009. Leslie Carr, Microsoft Office at #dev8D, RepositoryMan, February 13, 2009.
Julie Kelly and Louise Letnes, RePEc archives: AgEcon Search, The RePEc Blog, February 18, 2009. See also our past posts on AgEcon Search.
JISC's Kate Fernie has posted a report on the EU's Information Day on the third Call for Proposals of the ICT Policy Support Programme on digital libraries (Luxembourg, February 17, 2009); see also this blog post. From the report: See also our past posts on Europeana.
The Public Knowledge Project has released Open Archives Harvester 2.3.0.
The proposal to require OA for publicly-funded research is now ranked #11 on Obama CTO, the unofficial web site collecting recommendations for the Obama administration. Yesterday it was #12. Thanks to all who responded to my call to spread the word and muster up additional votes. Every little bit helps in making the case for the NIH policy, and against the Conyers bill, to Congress and the Obama administration.
US citizens : The American Library Association has created an action alert to send a message to your representative in support of the NIH policy and opposing the Conyers bill. It only works if your representative is a member of the House Judiciary Committee.
Gareth J. Johnson, Repositories and policy - SUTEr Event at the National Library of Wales, UoL Library Blog, February 19, 2009. Notes on SUETr Repository Policy Event (Aberystwyth, February 18, 2009).