The Open Access Directory (OAD) just opened a list of Volunteer opportunities. This is a place where volunteers can look for jobs that will help the cause, and where everyone can list the jobs they'd like to see someone do. At the moment, many of the jobs listed are about building the OAD itself. But it's not at all limited to OAD-building.
Robin Rice, DataShare deliverables over last 6 months, DataShare blog , November 12, 2008.
Andrea Gawrylewski, NIH research director steps down, The Scientist , November 13, 2008. Excerpt: Comments The NIH Director, Elias Zerhouni, also stepped down at the end of October.
John Harnad, Approaches to Open Access in Scientific Publishing, a preprint forthcoming in Physics World , self-archived November 19, 2008. (Note that this is John, not Stevan, Harnad.)
Library of Congress, National Library of China Sign World Digital Library Agreement, a press release from the Library of Congress, November 17, 2008. (Thanks to ResourceShelf.) Excerpt: PS: Also see our past posts on the WDL.
MIT helps launch interactive video education project in Jordan, a press release from MIT, November 13, 2008.
Thingiverse is a new site for sharing designs for physical objects. All downloads are gratis, and the site includes integration for various open licenses. (Thanks to Creative Commons.) See also our past post on SomeRightsReserved, a similar site.
From a transcript of Lawrence Lessig's keynote at the Students for Free Culture Conference (Berkeley, October 11-12, 2008): Update. Stevan Harnad hopes Lessig is talking about green OA.
The Prevail Archive is an OA collection of official documents related to the the shootings at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007. The archive is the result of a volunteer student effort to scan documents released under Virginia's Freedom of Information Act. (Thanks to the Chronicle of Higher Education.) See also our past post on the April 16 Archive, another OA archive about the events.
Gunther Eysenbach announced that the OA Journal of Medical Internet Research has received a $90,000 (CAN) grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Molly Keener has posted notes on OA Exposed!, a panel at the Charleston Conference (Charleston, November 5-8, 2008).