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.
CureTogether, launched earlier this year, describes itself as a "platform for open source health research". (Thanks to Michel Bauwens.) See also: How CureTogether Fits Into Disease Research Open Source Health Research Plan See also our past posts about PatientsLikeMe, a similar site.
The presentations from Making the Web Work for Science: The Impact of e-Science and the Cyber-Infrastructure (Washington, DC, December 8, 2008) are now online. See also our previous post on Antony Williams' presentation from the conference.
JISC has posted its 2008 annual review. (Thanks to Open Education News.) See especially the section on its Information Environment program.
S . Della Sala, New open access policy, Cortex , December 2008. An editorial. Not even an abstract is accessible to non-subscribers, at least so far. Update (12/24/08). Jim Till has posted an excerpt from the text.
Kaiser ‘biobank’ lands $8.6M grant, San Francisco Business Times , December 17, 2008. (Thanks to Garrett Eastman.) Excerpt: PS: It appears that this biobank will at least be gratis OA. If anyone has more detail on its access policy, please drop me a line or post a note to SOAF.
Barbara Kirsop, Recording three month's progress for OA, EPT blog , December 23, 2008.
The Bahrain Medical Bulletin has converted to OA, becoming Bahrain's first OA journal. It will use CC-BY licenses.
Rick Weiss, The Top Eight Science Policy News Stories of 2008, Science Progress , December 22, 2008. Actually there are two OA stories in Weiss' Top 8: the NIH policy at #5 and Obama's science team at #1. Excerpt: PS: For the OA connection with Obama's science team, see Gavin's recent posts on Harold Varmus, Eric Lander, Jane Lubchenco, and Steven Chu.
CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) created a page on OA, behind a password.
The Open Knowledge Definition has been translated into Icelandic.