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.
ICPCNanoNet is a new OA repository for nanoscience research.
Kathleen Smith and Michael Gavin, Q&A with Brett Bobley, Director of the NEH's Office of Digital Humanities (ODH), HASTAC , February 1, 2009. Bobley is the the Chief Information Officer for the US National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Director of its Office of Digital Humanities (ODH).
Guy Pessach, Reciprocal Share-Alike Exemptions in Copyright Law, Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 30, No. 3, 2008.
On January 26, Manuel Medina Ortega, a Member of the European Parliament from Spain, introduced the Commission's report on the application of Directive 2001/29/EC on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society. The report is "non-legislative" but makes recommendations.
I just mailed the February issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter . This issue takes a close look at 18 choice-points facing funding agencies and universities when they draft a new OA policy, review an existing policy, or think about policies elsewhere. The round-up section briefly notes 159 OA developments from January.
The Australian Research Council (ARC) has released the Draft Technical Specifications (January 22, 2009) for its System to Evaluate the Excellence of Research (SEER). (Thanks to Colin Steele.) The draft guidelines --the result of a public consultation which ended in June 2008-- require deposit in institutional repositories and OA whenever possible.
Vikas Anand Saharan points out several new OA journals of pharmacy science: Asian Journal of Research in Chemistry (first issue July-September 2008) International Journal of PharmTech Research (first issue January-March 2009) International Journal of ChemTech Research (first issue January-March 2009) InPharm Communique (launched October 15, 2008) Indian Journal of Pharmacy Practice (first issue October-December 2008)
Flaubert. Revue critique et génétique is a new OA journal published in French by the Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes on the Revues.org platform. See the January 30 announcement.
David Wiley, Flat World Knowledge Public Beta!, Iterating Toward Openness, January 29, 2009.
Stephane Couture, Pour l’accès libre à la connaissance scientifique, Alternatives, January 29, 2009. Read it in the original French or Google's English.