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.
On December 9, the Archives of the French National Assembly posted 350,000 pages of parliamentary records dating back to 1958. See the press release.
Petter Bae Brandtzæg and Marika Lüders, eCitizen2.0: The ordinary citizen as a supplier of public-sector information, report for the Norwegian Ministry of Government Administration and Reform, undated by recent. See also the November 4 press release.
Three new items from Science Commons' John Wilbanks: Video for the Kauffman Foundation Essay for the Kauffman Foundation Audio from Digital Media in Health Care Leadership Symposium (Tampa, November 21-23, 2008) (Thanks to Science Commons.)
John Willinsky, Open Access and the Public Knowledge Project, presented at The Scholarly and Public Quality of Research: Why Open Access Matters (Sydney, December 8, 2008). An audio recording.
NIH Expands Open-Access Dataset of Genetic and Clinical Data to Include Asthma, press release, December 15, 2008. See also our past posts on dbGaP.
Francine Fialkoff, Google Deal or Rip-Off? Librarians need to protect the public interest, Library Journal , December 15, 2008. An editorial. Excerpt: Related . Also see the comments of the Open Content Alliance, A Raw Deal for Libraries (blogged here 12/11/08).
Andrea Foster, Google Settlement to Pay Lawyers Up Front, Authors Eventually: Opinions on Settlement Differ, But Negotiations Cloaked in Secrecy by Non-Disclosure Agreements, Doing the Write Thing , undated but apparently December 15, 2008. A detailed account.
Kenneth Anderson, Musing about Publishing on Paper versus Publishing On-line, Opinio Juris , December 16, 2008. Excerpt: Comment . Exactly. TA journals add the value of peer review, but OA journals add the same value without making any subtractions.
Wagdy Sawahel, Library of Alexandria goes online for science education, SciDev.Net , December 8, 2008. (Thanks to Subbiah Arunachalam.)
Simon Chester, A New Model for Legal Publishing, Slaw.ca , December 15, 2008.