L. T. Handoko, A New Approach for Scientific Data Dissemination in Developing Countries: A Case of Indonesia, Earth, Moon, and Planets , January 14, 2009. Only an abstract and short preview are free online, at least so far. PS: Does anyone know what "ARSIP" stands for in this context?
Jennifer A. Flexman, Open access to biomedical engineering publications, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society , August 25, 2008. Only this abstract is free online, at least so far.
Back in June 2008 we learned that Computational Linguistics would convert to OA with the first issue in 2009. Here are the editor's reflections on the conversion, in the last issue of 2008: Robert Dale, What’s the Future for Computational Linguistics ? Computational Linguistics , December 2008. An editorial. (Thanks to the Alex Project.)
Carole L. Palmer, Lauren C. Teffeau, and Carrie M. Pirmann, Scholarly Information Practices in the Online Environment: Themes from the Literature and Implications for Library Service Development, OCLC Research , January 2009. (Thanks to the JISC Information Environment Team.)
John Wilbanks, Data, Copyrights, And Slogans, Oh My, Common Knowledge, January 24, 2009.
If you recall (1, 2), the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (ESPRC) is the only one of the seven Research Councils UK which hasn't already adopted an OA mandate. Back in 2006, when the other councils were adopting or announcing theirs, the ESPRC said it would wait until 2008. The new policy isn't public yet but over the weekend we got the first public clue.
Dulcinea is a recently-launched database of the self-archiving and copyright policies of Spanish journals. Named for the Quixote character (by comparison to SHERPA's RoMEO), the beta service currently lists 249 journals.
Larry Sanger, Why wiki knowledge projects are so fascinating to so many, Citizendium Blog, January 23, 2009.
On January 24, Inderscience Publishers launched an OA option for its journals.
Sebastian K. Boell, A Scientometric Method to Analyze Scientific Journals as Exemplified by the Area of Information Science, thesis, Saarland University, 2007; self-archived January 23, 2009.
Rufus Pollock, Open Economics: Recent Progress, Open Knowledge Foundation Blog, January 23, 2009.