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.
Robert Dellavalle, et al., Self-archiving dermatology articles, Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 59(6), 2008. Self-archived December 16, 2008.
John Wilbanks, Data Sharing and Science: Legal, Normative, and Social Issues, presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (San Francisco, December 15-19, 2008). See also his notes on the conference. See also: We previously posted the abstract.
Health Sciences Online is a recently-launched OA portal of OA health resources. From the about page: See also the press release, or the press release by the search technology provider, Vivisimo.
Paul Allen, Piece of mind, The Economist, November 19, 2008. An op-ed. (Thanks to Gloria Tavera.) See also our past posts on the Allen Brain Atlas.
David Wojick, We need a National Library of Energy to rapidly deploy transformative energy innovations, OSTI Blog , December 15, 2008. Excerpt: Comment . Hear, hear. I made a related argument in SOAN last month. America urgently needs green energy, green technology, and green jobs.
Portugal's publicly-funded Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) was officially launched yesterday at the 3ª Conferência sobre o Acesso Livre ao Conhecimento (Minho, December 15-16, 2008). RCAAP harvests content from 10 institutional repositories from around the country.
Declan Butler, Publish in Wikipedia or perish, Nature News , December 16, 2008. Free for a week before it moves behind a pay well (like all Nature News stories). Excerpt: Comments Very interesting. This policy helps the journal (by spreading the word about new work) and Wikipedia (by adding high-quality contributions written for a lay audience).
The proposal to require OA for publicly-funded research has climbed to the 12th spot on Obama CTO, the unofficial web site collecting recommendations for the Obama administration, up one rank from last week. The OA idea was posted to the site on November 15, and broke into the top 25 on December 4. Keep spreading the word: ranks are determined by user votes.
A webcast of Maura Marx's talk at Harvard today, The Open Knowledge Commons, is now available for downloading.
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum launched its Artists Registry on December 5. The Registry is an OA virtual gallery which allows artists to upload their work created in response to 9/11. The registry implements Creative Commons licenses, allowing artists to choose a CC license for the work they upload. See the press release.