David Bollier's new book, Viral Spiral, now has a Web site and an OA, CC-licensed edition. See especially chapter 11, "Science as a Commons". See also our previous post on the book, or past posts on Bollier.

Grant Buckler, Science 2.0: New online tools may revolutionize research, CBC News, January 13, 2009. Discusses tagging, social networking, Nature Network, Nature Precedings, blogs, Twitter, open notebooks, and preprints.

The Stuttgarter Beiträge für Naturkunde Serie B converted to OA and changed its name to Palaeodiversity in late 2008.  (Thanks to Bill Parker.)  The backfile to 1999 is OA and older issues will soon be OA as well.

Hindawi Adds Support for the ePUB Digital Format, press release, January 12, 2009.

Head & Neck Oncology is a new peer-reviewed OA journal published by BioMed Central. The journal is the official publication of the Head & Neck Optical Diagnostics Society. See the January 12 announcement. The article-processing charge is £850 (€960, US$1290), subject to discount or waiver. Authors retain copyright, and articles are released under the Creative Commons Attribution License.

The US Open Access Working Group has posted an OA proposal to the Obama transition team's Citizen's Briefing Book.  Excerpt: Comment .  Like Obama CTO, which also has an OA proposal, the Citizen's Briefing Book allows you to vote for the posted proposals and add your own comments.  Unlike Obama CTO, Citizen's Briefing Book lets you vote for all the proposals you like, not just your highest priorities.

Ton Zijlstra, Open Government Data, Exciting New Project, Interdependent Thoughts , January 13, 2009.

Gavin Baker is live-blogging (1, 2, 3) the TACD's Patents, Copyrights and Knowledge Governance conference (Washington DC, January 12-13, 2009). Update (1/13/09).  Gavin has posted a TOC of his 9 blog posts on the conference.

Stevan Harnad, STM Publisher Briefing on Institution Repository Deposit Mandates, Open Access Archivangelism , January 13, 2009.  The square brackets in this excerpt are Stevan's, not mine. Comment .  I support all of Stevan's responses.  I also support his request to Michael Mabe to allow us to post quotations from the STM members-only briefing.

AuthorMapper is a site by Springer which searches journal articles and plots the location of authors on a map. It recently added an option to filter for only OA articles.

Christian Zimmermann, Institutional repositories and RePEc, The RePEc Blog, January 10, 2009.