Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database is a new OA database sponsored by Emory University, the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities, and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University. See the December 5 press release from Emory or coverage by the Associated Press.
eIFL.net has released its comment on the EU green paper, Copyright in the Knowledge Economy.
The first version of the 2007 Research Output report from the University of Pretoria listed the faculty publications but didn't link to OA editions in UPSpace, the Pretoria IR. That's fixed now, thanks to the UP Library Services and the Department of Research Support.
Michael Norris, Charles Oppenheim, Fytton Rowland, The citation advantage of open-access articles, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology , July 9, 2008. (Thanks to Repository News, esp. because I check the new issues of JASIST and somehow missed this article when it came out.)
G. Aneeja and Sridhar Gutam, Prospects of Open Access to Indian Agricultural Research: a case study of ICAR, a presentation at the 8th Indian Science Communication Congress (ISCC-2008), December 10-14, 2008, Chennai, India.
Glenn S. McGuigan and Robert D. Russell, The Business of Academic Publishing: A Strategic Analysis of the Academic Journal Publishing Industry and its Impact on the Future of Scholarly Publishing, Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship , Winter 2008.
Go-Geo!, the JISC-funded OA database of geospatial data, has been updated. See also our past post on Go-Geo!.
The New York Public Library has become the most recent participant in the Flickr Commons, with an initial set of 1,300 public domain images. See the announcement or the blog post at Flickr. We previously posted on participation in Flickr Commons by the Library of Congress (1, 2, 3), the Powerhouse Museum, the Smithsonian Institution and the Brooklyn Museum, the George Eastman House and the Bibliothèque de Toulouse.
Collaborative Drug Discovery has integrated the ChemSpider database. See the blog posts by Collaborative Drug Discovery or by ChemSpider. See also our past posts on Collaborative Drug Discovery or ChemSpider.
Adam Azman has released a new version of his Chemistry Dictionary for Word Processors. Using data from ChemSpider, the dictionary has grown from 18,000 words to more than 100,000. The dictionary is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License and is compatible with Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org. See also our post on the earlier release.
Jessica Dacey, Cataloguing the Middle Ages in cyberspace, swissinfo.ch, November 14, 2008. On the St. Gallen Abbey digitization project and the Digital Abbey Library of St. Gallen. See also our past posts on the project: 1, 2.