Stuart Lewis announces the SWORDAPP Facebook Repository Deposit Tool, an application to perform repository deposits from within Facebook via the SWORD protocol. See also our past posts on SWORD. Update. See also Pete Johnston's comments.
The Libertas Academica blog has a table comparing the APC fees of various OA and hybrid journals, including price and rights.
Andrew Albanese, At SPARC Digital Repository Meeting, Shulenberger Calls Out AAUP, ACS, Library Journal , November 20, 2008. Excerpt: Comment . The Conyers bill would directly overturn the NIH policy and block similar policies at every federal agency. Kudos to Shulenberger for criticizing the AAUP and ACS for supporting the bill.
The DRIVER project has released version 2.0 of its guidelines for participating repositories. See a brief announcement. See also our past posts on the DRIVER project.
Thomas Kalil, Overview: Science, Technology, and Innovation Challenges, Change for America, in print January 5, 2009.
Peter Binfield, New Academic Editor Interview - Niyaz Ahmed, Public Library of Science blog, November 18, 2008. Ahmed is PLoS ONE's Section Editor for Microbiology and Genomics.
Kaitlin Mara, IP Model Proposed For North-South Nanotechnology Divide, Intellectual Property Watch, November 19, 2008.
Les Carr, The Value that Repositories Add, RepositoryMan, November 18, 2008. So who (among researchers) actually likes repositories? There may be a place to collect those stories soon.
Kylie Pappalardo, New: literature review and website on access to public sector information, OctaviaNet , November 21, 2008. (Thanks to Brianna Laugher.)
Josh Hadro, Scan on Demand: Open Library and Boston Public Library Put a Twist on Scanning Projects, Library Journal, November 18, 2008. See also our past posts on scan-on-demand at Open Library.
More blog notes on the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting (Baltimore, November 17-18, 2008): Marcus Banks: Final Notes Erik Mitchell: SPARC Digital repositories in B-more, SPARC-DR - It’s all about (meta)data and services, Institutional Repository Services, Open Access, SPARC wrap-up Richard Akerman: liveblog experiment Library Journal: SPARC Digital Repository Meeting Kicks Off Discussion of a "Disruptive" Future that Remains Largely Untapped