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)
RoMEO has reached 500 publishers, press release, February 12, 2009.
Starting with the first issue of 2009, Revista Electrónica de Veterinaria is published under the Creative Commons Attribution License and incorporated the SPARC Europe seal.
Ray English has won the 2009 Hugh C. Atkinson Award from the American Library Association. See the ALA press release or the press release from Oberlin College, where Ray is the Director of Libraries. From the latter: PS: See our many past posts on Ray, his OA work, and even his past awards. Also see the 2006 article he and I co-wrote on federal OA policy. Congratulations, Ray!
The Breast Cancer Network of Strength has joined the Alliance for Taxpayer Access. PS: If you appreciated the ATA's recent call to action to save the NIH policy and oppose the Conyers bill, think about having your organizing join as well.
Elie Dolgin, Heather Joseph: Q&A, The Scientist , February 9, 2009. Heather Joseph is the executive director of SPARC, and one of the four witnesses testifying at last September's hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on the NIH policy and the Conyers bill.
Jennifer Howard, At Publishers' Conference, the Digital Future Is (Almost) Now, Chronicle of Higher Education , February 9, 2009 (accessible only to subscribers).
Four US non-profit organizations supporting research universities have released The University’s Role in the Dissemination of Research and Scholarship — A Call to Action, February 2009. The four organizations the Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, Coalition for Networked Information, and National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges.
The presentations from the ENCES workshop, Copyright Regulation in Europe – An Enabling or Disabling Factor for Science Communication (November 13-15, 2008), are now online.
India's Sree Narayana Gurukulam College of Engineering has launched an institutional repository.
Penn Libraries and Kirtas Technologies team up to make more than 200,000 books available for research and purchase, a press release from Kirtas, February 12, 2009. (Thanks to Charles Bailey.) Excerpt: Comment . I talked to Todd Whiting at Kirtas about this program and have his permission to post what I learned. (Thanks, Todd.)