Stuart Lewis and Les Carr have discovered that only 8 of the 26 UK DSpace repositories listed in ROAR have working RSS feeds. Lewis and Carr are trying aggregate all the world's repository feeds. Lewis: If you're a DSpace repository manager, Lewis' post explains how to activate the feed.
Interview with Andres Martin, new editor (January, 2008) of TheJournal of American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry , Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry , November 2008.
Rekha Mittal and G. Mahesh, Digital libraries and repositories in India: an evaluative study, Program: electronic library & information systems 42(3), 2008.
Xiaohong Cao, et al., Data mining of cancer vaccine trials: a bird's-eye view, Immunome Research, December 12, 2008. Abstract: See also our past posts on ClinicalTrials.gov.
The presentations from Web 2.0 and Beyond: New Tools for Archaeological Collaboration and Communication (Vancouver, March 26-30, 2008) are now online.
The Journal of American History has launched an OA podcast feature.
The International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine is a new peer-reviewed OA journal published by e-Century Publishing Corporation. The first issue was released in January 2008; see also the inaugural editorial. The publishing fee is $100/page, subject to discount and waiver. Authors retain copyright and articles are released under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
ICA-AtoM (International Council on Archives - Access to Memory) is a free and open source platform for sharing metadata about archival collections, as well as digital objects of the archival items. A new version (1.0.4 beta) was released on November 17, 2008.
Michele Kimpton of the DSpace Foundation has posted her presentation from the Coalition for Networked Information fall meeting (Washington, DC, December 8-9, 2008).
Ideas in Ecology and Evolution is a new peer-reviewed OA journal published by Queen's University.
Alzheimer's Research & Therapy is a new peer-reviewed OA journal published by BioMed Central. See the announcement from December 12, 2008. The article processing charge is £950 (€1100, US$1395), subject to discounts and waiver. Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License.