Elizabeth Pennisi, Group Calls for Rapid Release of More Genomics Data, Science , May 22, 2009. (Thanks to Garrett Eastman.) Accessible only to subscribers. Excerpt: PS: I can't find a web site for last week's data-release workshop in Toronto where the new guidelines were taking shape. If anyone can help, please drop me a line and I'll update this post.
The U.S. Commitment to Global Health: Recommendations for the Public and Private Sectors, National Academies Press, May 20, 2009. Prepublication edition of a major report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the US National Academy of Sciences. Also see the IOM splash page on the report and its press release from May 20, 2009. From the report itself, see especially Summary Chapter 3:
Cornell University is considering a fund to pay publication fees at fee-based OA journals. Thanks to Philip Davis for the alert and this summary and comment: Update (5/26/09). Also see Stevan Harnad's comment: Comment (5/26/09). I can't agree that OA journal funds are squandering money.
Five more US university libraries have joined the CERN SCOAP3 project: Arizona State University Northern Illinois University Texas A&M University University of Chicago University of Georgia
Les Carr has posted a brief slide presentation on the features of EPrints 3.2 (currently in alpha release, with a public beta expected later this year).
Dorothea Salo, Digital preservation and institutional repositories, presented at the Summer Institute for Data Curation (Urbana, Illinois, May 21, 2009). A slide presentation.
Herbert Van de Sompel, An Overview of the OAI Object Reuse and Exchange Interoperability Framework, presented at Inforum 2009 (Prague, May 26, 2009). (Thanks to Charles Bailey.) A slide presentation on OAI-ORE. See also our past posts on OAI-ORE.
Keith Fahlgren, Collaborative Publishing Based on Community Feedback, O'Reilly Labs, May 21, 2009.
Gary Gale, Announcing GeoPlanet Data, The Yahoo! Geo Technologies Blog, May 20, 2009.
Peter Murray-Rust, Should the Foology Society sell its journals to commercial publishers, A Scientist and the Web, May 17, 2009.
Julie Allinson, SAFIR (Sound, Film, Archives Image Repository) Project: Final Report, report to JISC, January 2009.