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? )
Adam Hodgkin, Google Book Search and the Tragedy of the Anti-Commons, ExactEditions , February 1, 2009. Excerpt: PS: See our past posts (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) showing that Google Book Search already tends to block access to users outside the US.
The Yemen parliament is considering a bill to enhance citizen access to information. Most of it concerns public sector information and government sunshine practices. But it also touches on access to research. See Faisal Darem, Information law: guarantees access to information, calls for more transparency and privacy protection, Yemen Observer , February 3, 2009. Excerpt: Comment.
Sarah Currier, SWORD: Cutting Through the Red Tape to Populate Learning Materials Repositories, JISC e-Learning Focus , February 2, 2009.
Georgia Harper, OA, IRs and IP: Open Access, Digital Copyright and Marketplace Competition, text of a presentation at the ALA Midwinter meeting (Denver, January 23-28, 2009). Also see the slides. (Thanks to Robert Richards.)
Bernard Rentier, Dépôts institutionnels, thématiques ou centralisés ?, Bernard Rentier, Recteur, February 1, 2009. Read it in the original French or Google's English. Also includes this note: See also our past posts on Rentier or the Université de Liège, where he is rector.
Rufus Pollock, Open Data Openness and Licensing, Open Knowledge Foundation Blog, February 2, 2009. See also our recent post on licensing and open science.
The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México's humanities school (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras) has launched a new IR, RU-FFYL, as part of UNAM's 3R project. See the January 31 announcement by Juan Manuel Zurita Sánchez in the original Spanish or Google's English. See also our past posts on the 3R project.
Joshua Ferraro, Beyond Open Source : Other Types of Open, Open Sesame, January 29, 2009. John Mark Ockerbloom, Open catalog APIs and data: ALA presentation notes posted, Everybody’s Libraries, January 28, 2009. Talis and LibLime Open Data on ‡biblios.net, press release, January 30, 2009.
Yakov Shafranovich, Change in Google Book Search Guidelines for Public Domain Books, Personal Website of Yakov Shafranovich, January 30, 2009. See also the comments by James Grimmelmann and others. See also our past post on the Google Book Search guidelines.
Jeffrey Tucker, Religion and Royalties on Ritual Texts, New Liturgical Movement , February 2, 2009. (Thanks to Gino D'Oca.) Excerpt: PS: See our past posts on toll access for Catholic liturgical texts.