Stevan Harnad, Comment on EU Green Paper: "Copyright in the Knowledge Economy", Open Access Archivangelism , November 25, 2008. Excerpt: PS: Remember that comments on the EU green paper, Copyright in the Knowledge Economy, are due on November 30. One of the questions raised in the paper --Question 19, quoted below-- has a strong OA connection.
Wouter Gerritsma, The changing face of Elsevier Science, Wouter on the web , November 22, 2008. Excerpt: From the Elsevier Article API (November 16, 2008): Update (11/27/08). Elsevier opened its article API at least to some degree, and temporarily, for its Article 2.0 contest. Does anyone know whether the recent announcement goes beyond that?
Peter Plener, Open Access: Einführung, a 24:20 minute podcast introducing the Emergenzen 7 // Open Access meeting (Vienna, October 4, 2008). (Thanks to Klaus Graf.) Read the blurb in German or Google's English.
Blog notes (in Spanish) are now available on the Seminario Internacional de Dominio Público (Santiago, November 21, 2008). Topics include OA, CC, OERs, and the public domain. Update. See also Google's English translation.
18thConnect is an OA research platform and aggregator for collections of materials on the 18th century. See this interview from HPCwire with project leaders Laura Mandell and Robert Markley.
Bruce V. Bigelow, The Bourne Innovation: UC Researchers Launch a YouTube for Scientists, Xconomy, November 24, 2008. See also our past posts on SciVee.
Jingfeng Xia, A Comparison of Subject and Institutional Repositories in Self-archiving Practices, Journal of Academic Librarianship, November 2008. Only this abstract is OA, at least so far: Update (1/5/09). Also see Stevan Harnad's comments. Update (1/8/09). Xia has now self-archived an OA edition of this article.
Some of the papers and presentations from the II Conferência Ibero-Americana de Periódicos Eletrônicos no Contexto da Comunicação Cientifica (Rio de Janeiro, November 17-21, 2008) are now online. Some are currently available in full-text, some are abstract only, others don't have even an abstract. Many are OA-related.
Research Information Network (UK), Ensuring a bright future for research libraries: a guide for vice-chancellors and senior institutional managers, report, November 2008.
Momentum: The 2008 report on university research and knowledge mobilization is a report by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, released on October 21, 2008. (Thanks to Fabrizio Tinti.) See also our past posts on Canadiana or the Synergies project (1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Andrew Noyes, Conyers To Abolish IP Subcommittee, CongressDaily , November 12, 2008. (Thanks to Kara Malenfant.) Only the first two paragraphs are free online: Comment. What's the OA connection? The Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property held the September hearing on the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act (a.k.a. Conyers bill).