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.
PURE is a Current Research Information System and full-text repository by Danish software developers Atira. Version 3.12.0 was released on January 13.
Kaitlin Mara, WHO Members Make Informal Progress On Plan Of Action As Executive Board Opens, Intellectual Property Watch, January 20, 2009. Comment. To be clear, nothing official was decided this week. But the idea is for influential member states to line up in advance, preparing the way for official agreement. We should hear this week or next if the Executive Board follows.
Publishing Research Consortium, Journal authors’ rights: perceptions and reality, presentation, undated but apparently recent. Preliminary report of a forthcoming paper. The study, conducted for the publishing industry, compares what authors think journal agreements permit them to do with their work with a survey of journal policies.
Mandy Garner, The University of Europe: accessible to all, The Guardian , undated but published on January 16, 2009.
The European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) has launched PhD Thesis Links. From the site: PS: Also see our past posts on EURASIP.
Javier Pérez Iglesias, 3ras Jornadas de OS-Repositorios: de la creación de repositorios institucionales a su promoción, El profesional de la información, January 16, 2009. Notes on La proyección de los repositorios institucionales (Madrid, December 10-12, 2008). Read it in the original Spanish or Google's English. See also our past posts on the conference (1, 2).
Jonathan Gray, What Obama can do to promote openness, Open Knowledge Foundation Blog, January 20, 2009.
Charles Bailey has released version 3 of his Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography. See the announcement.
eIFL has posted reports on three OA conferences: Knowledge in the digital age: Open Access and Open repositories (Yekaterinburg, Russia, December 2-3, 2008) Adult Learning and e-Learning Quality (Kaunas, Lithuania, November 25, 2008) Open Access: How to improve accessibility, visibility and impact of your research outputs for librarians and researchers (Addis Ababa, December 22, 2008) Each report also contains links to presentations from the
Great Reform Act plans for Scotland go online, National Library of Scotland, January 7, 2009.