The International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art (RIHA) adopted a Resolution on Copyright on November 8, 2008. Excerpt: Thanks to Klaus Graf for the alert and for collecting together links to similar statements and links more generally to the "art history image permission crisis". Also see our own past posts on permission barriers in art history.
André Gunthert, La Publication Scientifique en Ligne Face aux Lacunes du Droit Français, Revue de Synthèse , September 27, 2008. (Thanks to Klaus Graf.)
Jan Velterop, The discovery of more knowledge (in repositories, research web sites, blogs, and the like), The Parachute , December 23, 2008. Jan is the CEO of KnewCo. Excerpt: PS: See Jan's previous post on this button or our excerpt from it. I haven't included his example in the current post because it works best on his site where you can click the button and test the resulting links.
The Library Copyright Alliance has released comment on the EU green paper, Copyright in the Knowledge Economy.
Materials is a new peer-reviewed OA journal from MDPI. (Thanks to Dietrich Rordorf.)
Gavin and I are slowing down for Christmas and will start to catch up on Friday.
The PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research) project has released its calls for tender on research about OA. Calls for the Behavioural Research and Usage Research strands were released on December 22, and tenders are due by February 17, 2009. See also the pre-release announcement, which notes a third strand of research (economic) to be undertaken in 2009.
Aydin Örstan, Some open access malacological publications, Snail's Tales, December 22, 2008. A list with links.
David Groenewegen, Conclusion of the ARROW Project, posted to SPARC-OAForum, December 22, 2008. David Groenewegen, ARCHER software release, posted to SPARC-OAForum, December 22, 2008. See also our past posts on ARROW or ARCHER (1, 2, 3).
SPIE Reviews is a forthcoming OA journal published by the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. There are no article-processing fees or page charges. The first issue is scheduled for release in 2009. See also the December 12 press release. (Thanks to the University of Alberta Engineering Librarians.) See also our past post about SPIE. Updated with the correct release date for the inaugural issue.
Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library has posted nearly 500 images on Flickr, digitized from its collections. See e.g. the Paleographical Commons set. The project, however, is not a participant in Flickr Commons, and the images are tagged as "all rights reserved". See also the blog post from the library. See also our recent post on Flickr Commons.