University College London has adopted an OA mandate. From today's announcement: Comment I applaud UCL for this move and look forward to the policy details. From this announcement, UCL seems to have left a loophole for publishers (ensuring OA "subject to copyright permissions") rather than closing the loophole, Harvard-style, by blocking opt-outs for publishers and opening opt-outs for authors. More later.
David Bousfield, Some thoughts on Open Access publishing, Current Trends in Biomedical Publishing and Bioinformatics, June 2, 2009. Comments on JISC's Economic implications of alternative scholarly publishing models and RIN's Activities, costs and funding flows in the scholarly communications system in the UK. See also our past posts on the JISC and RIN studies.
Paul Miller, John Wilbanks talks about Creative Commons, Data, Science and more, The Cloud of Data, June 1, 2009. A 48 minute audio recording.
Jennifer Howard, Archive Watch: Taking It Philosophically, Wired Campus , June 2, 2009. Excerpt: PS: Also see our past posts on PhilPapers.
The audio of the May 27 CC community conference call is now online.
Mike Taylor, Choosing a journal for the neck-posture paper: why open access is important, Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week, June 1, 2009.
Gary Richmond, Extending the free software paradigm to DIY Biology, Free Software Magazine, June 2, 2009.
Bill Hooker, Pick an index, any index., Open Reading Frame, June 1, 2009.
Robert Kiley, Journals compliant with Wellcome mandate, UK PubMed Central Blog, June 1, 2009.
The Open Knowledge Foundation has launched a new mailing list on open knowledge in development.
Lyubomir Penev, et al., Publication and dissemination of datasets in taxonomy: ZooKeys working example, ZooKeys, 2009. (Thanks to Jonathan Gray.) Abstract: See also our past post on ZooKeys.