The new issue of Online Information Review is now available. See especially: Michael Norris, et al., Finding open access articles using Google, Google Scholar, OAIster and OpenDOAR (only the abstract is OA, at least so far) Cecilia Penzhorn, review, Open Access to Knowledge and Information: Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives;
Stuart Macdonald, Consorcio Madrono - research data seminar, DataShare Blog, November 19, 2008. Blog notes on Seminario sobre datasets (Madrid, November 17, 2008).
Education Resources Information Center, Digitization Project Releases Full-Text Documents, notice, November 19, 2008. See also our past posts on the ERIC Microfiche Digitization Project.
Savage Minds has posted the winners of its contest for best OA content in anthropology. Top honors for journal go to Cultural Analysis, with Anthropology Matters the runner-up. See also our past posts on the contest: 1, 2.
Amazon Web Services has launched Hosted Public Data Sets. (Thanks to ReadWriteWeb.) As ReadWriteWeb points out: See also our past posts on Google's entree into the same business: 1, 2, and 3.
Imafronte, an art history journal published (in Spanish) by the University of Murcia, converted to OA earlier this year. Its backfiles (to 1985) are also available.
Tim O'Reilly, It's Not Over: We are "the change we need." O'Reilly Radar , November 22, 2008. Excerpt: PS: Last week I sent my An open letter to the next President of the United States to Change.gov. And it's not too late to vote for the OA proposal at Obama CTO. It's been up for less than 10 days and it's already the 26th most popular proposal (out of 630+) on the site.
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 has a strong OA connection.
Jeffrey Makala, On the Need for a New, Open Access, Online Directory of Special Collections, ARL Bimonthly Report #260 , November 21, 2008.
Andrew Hammond, Saudi project hopes to put Arabs on genetic map, Reuters, September 25, 2008. (Thanks to Jose Manuel Lopez Castro.) See also our past post on the 1000 Genomes Project.
The Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, an OA library of Hispanic texts, has been awarded the Palma de Alicante for expanding access to its contents. (Thanks to Fulgencio García Ros.) See also our past post on the Cervantes Virtual Library.