María-Francisca Abad-Garcí, et al., Viabilidad de repositorios de biomedicina y ciencias de la salud en la Comunidad Valenciana, El Profesional de la Informacion, March-April 2008; self-archived February 12, 2009.
María-Francisca Abad-Garcí, et al., Viabilidad de repositorios de biomedicina y ciencias de la salud en la Comunidad Valenciana, El Profesional de la Informacion, March-April 2008; self-archived February 12, 2009.
Mary Anne Kennan and Danny Kingsley, The state of the nation: A snapshot of Australian institutional repositories, First Monday, February 2, 2009.
The backfiles of the Revue française de psychanalyse, from 1927 to 2000, were recently made OA on Gallica2. More recent issues are available on Cairn, OA after a 5 year embargo.
Andy Powell has a series of posts critiquing repository usability and Web-friendliness (embrace of Web standards, search engine optimization, etc.): Freedom, Google-juice and institutional mandates Repository usability Repository usability - take 2 Quoting from the second: Update. See also this response from Herbert Van de Sompel (thanks to Fabrizio Tinti):
Economics Search Engine is Google custom search engine of 23,000 economics Web sites, including from RePEc.
Sophia Jones, On behalf of DRIVER: "Your Opinion Matters!", posted to SPARC-OAForum, February 12, 2009.
Paul C. Boutros, et al., Prognostic gene signatures for non-small-cell lung cancer, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 4, 2009. (Thanks to Jim Till.) David Braue, Vic Govt limited Google's bushfire map, ZDNet Australia, February 12, 2009.
A few recent updates on ticTOCs, the OA index of journal table of contents: Terry Bucknell, Opening the box: we’ve exposed the ticTOCs data, News from ticTOCs, February 11, 2009. Roddy MacLeod, Improvements to ticTOCs, the Journal Tables of Contents Service, News from ticTOCs, February 11, 2009. Roddy MacLeod, Six ways to use ticTOCs, the free journal tables of contents service, News from ticTOCs, February 12, 2009.
ALA, ARL, ACRL Host Meeting of Experts to Discuss Google Book Search Settlement, District Dispatch, February 12, 2009.
Kaitlin Mara, Proponents Explore Designs For Prizes To Aid Neglected Disease Research, Intellectual Property Watch, February 12, 2009. See also our past post on the open source dividend.
Three new no-fee OA journals were announced by Medknow in January, which are not yet online: Journal of Craniovertebral Junction and Spine Journal of Education and Ethics in Dentistry Middle East African Journal of Ophthalmology (on behalf of Middle East African Council of Ophthalmology)