Digital Karnak is a recently-launched project at the University of California at Los Angeles to See also the article in Wired Campus.

Expanded green and gold routes to open access at Nature Publishing Group, a press release from the Nature Publishing Group, January 22, 2009.  Excerpt: Also see today's press release on the the new OA and deposit service from Molecular Therapy . Comments I applaud the expansion of NPG's green and gold OA options.

SPARC has launched a guide, a bibliography, a set of case studies, a discussion forum on campus-based publishing, and a Resource Center to pull them all together.

Fleur Stigter, Who and What Drives Driver? Tell Fleur , January 19, 2009.

Michael Nielsen, The role of open licensing in open science, Michael Nielsen, January 21, 2009.

Wendy M. Grossman, Why you can't find a library book in your search engine, The Guardian, January 22, 2009.

The presentations from the Coalition for Networked Information fall meeting (Washington, DC, December 8-9, 2008) are now online. Several are related to OA. (Thanks to Charles Bailey.) See also: We previously posted John Wilbanks' and Michele Kimpton's presentations from the meeting.

University of Michigan and OCLC form partnership to ensure long-term access to OAIster database, a press release from OCLC, January 21, 2009.  Excerpt: Comments Although OCLC will create a TA version of OAIster in FirstSearch, it's committed to maintain an OA version as well.  So far, so good.  But then, many people thought OCLC was committed to OA for WorldCat bibliographic data.

The January/February 2009 issue of the eIFL newsletter is now available. See especially the section on eIFL-OA.

Dave Gray, Free the facts!, January 17, 2009. Describes, in drawings, the problems of the toll-access journal system. See also his blog post.

M. S. Vijay Kumar, Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge, presented at EDUCAUSE Live!, October 17, 2008. See also our previous post on the book of the same name, edited by Kumar.