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

Stevan Harnad, Open Access Allows All the Cream to Rise to the Top, Open Access Archivangelism , November 19, 2008.

Remember that public comments on the EU green paper, Copyright in the Knowledge Economy, are due on November 30.  Send your comments to markt-d1@ec.europa.eu. See especially Section 3.3 (pp. 16-19), Dissemination of works for teaching and research purposes , and Question 19 (p. 18): For background, see our July 2008 blog post on the green paper.

Inspired by Dorothea Salo's habit of calling herself a repository rat, Les Carr has looked into the other wildlife to be found the repository niche of the OA ecosystem.  Some are solitary and some social; some are wild and some domesticated; some are hunters and some scavengers; some are preeners and some slovenly; and some are valued while some are vermin.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) announced today that it would create an OA archive of Landsat data.

Randy Barrett, Science 2.0: You Say You Want a Revolution? HHMI Bulletin , November 2008.  (Thanks to Bora Zivkovic.)  A survey of science 2.0, including blogs, wikis, and OA.  Unfortunately the PDF is locked ( why? ) and I don't have time to rekey an excerpt.

Heather Morrison, Who benefits from the University of Calgary authors' fund? Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics , November 19, 2008.  Excerpt: PS:  See our past posts on the Calgary authors fund.

The videos and presentations from the Berlin 6 meeting, Changing Scholarly Communication in the Knowledge Society (Düsseldorf, November 11-13, 2008), are now online.  All of them are OA-related.

The American Psychological Association revised its self-archiving policy on November 1. Both the old and new policies say that "Authors...may post a copy of the final manuscript...on their Web site or their employer's server...."  However, the old policy added that "APA does not permit archiving with any other non-APA repositories" and the new policy deletes that rule.

Greg Boustead, Garrett Lisi's Exceptional Approach to Everything, Seed Magazine, November 17, 2008. Virginia Hughes, Reviewing Peer-Review, Seed Magazine, November 17, 2008.

The Fascinator is "a simple interface to Fedora that uses a single technology [Apache Solr] to handle all browsing, searching and security". See the demo and the blog post by Peter Sefton.