Josh Hadro, Newsmaker Interview: Brad Wheeler on the HathiTrust, Library Journal, January 9, 2009. Mostly on the technology and organization behind HathiTrust. John Wilkin, HathiTrust and the Google Deal, Library Journal, December 23, 2008. On the relationship between Google Books and HathiTrust.
Tom Steinberg, Top 5 Internet Priorities for the Next Government (any next Government), mySociety blog, January 7, 2009.
Open Culture added to its collection of free audio books on January 9.
Rick Kulkarni, Open-Access Medical Knowledge: Where Are We Currently and Where Should We Be Going?, Medscape Journal of Medicine, January 9, 2009. A video editorial.
Doctoral thesis highly commended, News from DIS (the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University), January 9, 2009. (Thanks to Stevan Harnad.) Excerpt: PS: Congratulations, Michael! Also see the published article based on the dissertation:
STM has written a members-only briefing document on university OA mandates.
Fernanda Peset and Antonia Ferrer-Sapena, E-LIS : Central repository on Library and Information Science, presented at Online Information 2008 (London, December 2-4, 2008); self-archived January 8, 2008.
Kumiko Vézina, Libre Accès à la recherche scientifique (Open Access) et dépôts institutionnels : contexte et enjeux, presentation to the Association pour l'avancement des sciences et des techniques de la documentation, section santé, September 19, 2008; self-archived January 8, 2009.
Joachim Schöpfel, ed., La publication scientifique: analyses et perspectives, published by Hermès, November 2008. (Thanks to Odile Contat.) Only a book description and table of contents is OA, at least so far. See especially these chapters: 5. A. Jacquesson and J.-Ph. Schmitt, Les grands éditeurs face au mouvement open access 8. L. Endrizzi, Wikipédia : un nouveau modèle éditorial ?
Rick Johnson, Free (or Fee) to All?, Library Journal, December 23, 2008. See also Johnson's longer piece on better models for digitization.
Michael M. C. Lai, Journal of Biomedical Science, marking a new epoch: moving to open access in 2009, Journal of Biomedical Science, January 8, 2009. An editorial. See also the post on the BioMed Central blog. See also our previous post on the Journal of Biomedical Science.