Advanced Research Journals is an apparently new OA publisher. I say "apparently" because nothing on the site speaks about OA, although a May 5 listserv call for papers in broken English says that ARJ publishes OA journals ("Advanced Research Journals are an Open Access online journal..."). I've seen no press release announcing the launch, even now that I've gone looking.
Matthew Law is building a list of open access archaeology journals, conference proceedings and books on WikiArc, the wiki for archaeological research. Even better, he's building a Google custom search engine, WikiArc Open Access Archaeology Search, to crawl all the OA resources on the new wiki list. Comment . This is a great idea. Here's one more layer of utility to add on top:
John Wilbanks, A Truly "Open" Concept Web Definition, Common Knowledge , May 12, 2009.
Alison Flood, New Bloomsbury science series to be available free online, The Guardian , May 12, 2009. Excerpt: PS: Also see our past posts on Bloomsbury Academic.
The Open Knowledge Foundation has launched an Open Data Grid.
The Fedora Commons and DSpace Foundation are merging to form DuraSpace.
Andrew Waller, Open Access at the University of Calgary: Access and Initiatives, presented at University of Calgary Faculty Technology Days (Calgary, May 7, 2009). Abstract:
David Weinberger, [berkman] Kenneth Crews on academic copyright, Joho the Blog, May 11, 2009. Notes on Protecting Your Scholarship: Copyrights, Publication Agreements, and Open Access (Cambridge, Mass., May 11, 2009).
Jonathan Gray, European Open Data Summit, Open Knowledge Foundation Blog, May 11, 2009.
OCLC, New Podcast: The Hathi Trust and "The Silence of the Archive", May 6, 2009. (Thanks to Charles Bailey.) See also our past posts on Hathi Trust.
SWORD Wins Innovation Award at JISC Event, UKOLN, May 11, 2009.