The blog Savage Minds is now accepting votes for the best OA content in anthropology, with categories for best blog, best journal, and best digital miscellany. (We previously posted the call for nominations.) Winners will be announced at the American Anthropological Association conference this weekend.
The International Journal on Digital Libraries has a special issue on very large digital libraries.
A special issue of Neuroinformatics is dedicated to the Neuroscience Information Framework, an NIH project to develop a (OA) framework for identifying and locating neuroscience resources. The theme issue is OA. See also the press release on the theme issue. (Thanks to Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News.) We previously posted an article from the issue, on Textpresso for Neuroscience.
Shirl Kennedy, Resources of the Week: One of These Things Is Not Like the Others, ResourceShelf, November 17, 2008. See also our past posts on OA to CRS reports.
Jeffrey Tucker, A Serious Issue on the Revised Grail Psalter, New Liturgical Movement , November 16, 2008. Excerpt: PS: Also see Tucker's call for OA to English translations of public-domain Latin texts required by US bishops for use in mass.
Bioline International has launched a membership and sponsorship program.
Heather A. Piwowar and Wendy Chapman, Identifying data sharing in biomedical literature, AIMA Annual Symposium Proceedings , November 2008. Since the 2008 proceedings are not yet online (OA or TA) at the AIMA web site, I'm linking to the abstract at PubMed. PS: See our blog post linking to two OA versions of the preprint.
Ancestry.co.uk now hosts an OA database of Slave Registers of former British Colonial Dependencies, 1812-1834. There's an unusual story here, reported by Ligali.org: Comments The Ligali story says that the data are owned by Ancestry.com. But I don't understand that. The data must be in the public domain, and it appears that the original paper documents are in the custody of the UK National Archives.
Stuart Lewis reports that the SWORD 2 project has launched a test repository. Excerpt: Update (11/18/08). The test repository is DSpace-based.
The Journal of Wetlands Ecology is a new peer-reviewed OA journal from the Wetland Friends of Nepal. (Thanks to Otterman speaks.) The inaugural issue now online.
The Open Knowledge Definition has been translated into Greek.