Globalizing quake information, Nature Geoscience , December 2008. The journal has made this editorial TA at its own site, but authorized an OA copy at the site of the Global Earthquake Model. Excerpt from the latter: Comment . GEM seems to depend on the openness of data, not just the accuracy and comprehensiveness of data.
H.M., a widely-studied patient on the topic of amnesia and memory, passed away in December 2008 and donated his brain to further study. The Brain Observatory at the University of California, San Diego will lead the research. Jacopo Annese, the Observatory's director, has announced that it will take an open approach to the research, including a blog for the project and Webcasts of the procedures. See the story from Science Friday.
Pablo Lara and Antonia Ferrer, Luis Collado, responsable de Búsqueda de Libros de Google, El profesional de la información, July-August 2008; self-archived December 21, 2008.
María Jesús del Olmo García, Stuart Shieber cuenta, desde Harvard, su punto de vista sobre Open Access y el sistema de publicación académica, SEDICblog, December 23, 2008. Blog notes on Jornadas sobre Open Acces y E-prints (Madrid, December 10-12, 2008).
Gavin Baker, Opening research proposals; thoughts on virtual collaboration, A Journal of Insignificant Inquiry, December 23, 2008.
Christian Zimmermann, The worldwide reach of RePEc, The RePEc Blog, December 26, 2008.
India's National Folklore Support Centre has opened a portal of OA Indian folklore journals, apparently launched in 2008.
Jurisdoctoria is a new OA journal published by the schools of comparative law and public & fiscal law at Université Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne. The inaugural issue was released in October 2008. The journal is dedicated to work by young researchers. The journal is published in French with English abstracts. Jurisdoctoria will publish two issues a year, each themed.
The UK Book Academy is discovering broken links to Google-scanned books. Is Google moving them? Taking them offline?
Maxine Clarke, Call for authors to deposit microarrays in public databases, Nautilus , December 8, 2008. Excerpt: PS: Thanks to Heather Piwowar for the alert, and thanks to Maxine Clarke, the Publishing Executive Editor of Nature, for excerpting this TA correspondence to Nature's OA blog.
Gideon Burton has started a blog which he hopes will become a book on new media in academic publishing.