Jonathan Miller, Blogging from Midwinter -- 2, The Director's Blog, January 24, 2009. Notes from the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting (Denver, January 23-28, 2009) on SCOAP3 and OERs.
Tom Daschle has withdrawn his name from consideration as Barack Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services. He was expected to be confirmed by the Senate, but damaged by his failure to pay $140,000 in personal income tax until after Obama nominated him. More coverage.
The OA working group of the Library Commission of the Conference of Italian Rectors has released its comments on the European Commission's green paper, Copyright in the Knowledge Economy. See also our past posts on the green paper.
FLOSS+Art is an OA book released in late 2008; the OA edition can be downloaded from The Pirate Bay.
Harold Varmus, chairman of the Public Library of Science board and former U.S. National Institutes of Health director, was the guest on National Public Radio's Science Friday on January 30. The recording is now online;
Jo Cook, On being open and what that means, Computing, GIS and Archaeology in the UK, January 29, 2009.
Alexandria Archive Institute, AAI announces winners of the 2008 ASOR Open Archaeology Prize, press release, January 30, 2009.
Two publications have recently gone OA with Revues.org: Annuaire de l'École pratique des hautes études, section des sciences historiques et philologiques (announcement) Annuaire de l'École pratique des hautes études, section des sciences religieuses (announcement) Each contains conference presentations by researchers in the respective section of the École pratique des hautes études. The 2006-7 issues are now online.
Economists Online has launched. See the announcement from Nereus: See also our past posts on Nereus.
Does your field of study depend on public-domain records which are not yet digitized or OA? A lot of us have a lot to learn from the genealogists. See Volunteers rally to put Norwegian records online, Mormon Times , February 2, 2009. Excerpt: PS: Also see our past posts on OA to genealogical information.
Stewardship of Research Data in Canada: A Gap Analysis, a report from Canada's Research Data Strategy Working Group, October 2008. Also see the press release, January 12, 2009. (Thanks to Stéphane Goldstein.) From the report itself, Section IX on Access: Comment . The Working Group turned off cutting and pasting in the PDF report. ( Why? )