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Tue, 13 May 2008 20:44:31 UT

enews - December 2007/January 2008

Tue, 13 May 2008 20:42:49 UT

Student video on Open Access

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:31:24 UT

Sean Kass, a third year Harvard law student, has released a 14 minute video, Open Access to Scholarly Publications. The video is a project in the course, The Web Difference, taught by John Palfrey and David Weinberger. (Thanks to Open Access News)

Putting the patient first: Cases Journal holds the promise of better care

Tue, 13 May 2008 01:15:00 UT

New Open-Access Humanities Press Makes Its Debut

Thu, 08 May 2008 14:44:18 UT

(The Chronicle, May 7) Scholars in the sciences have been light-years ahead of their peers in the humanities in exploring the possibilities of open-access publishing. But a new venture with prominent academic backers, the Open Humanities Press, wants to help humanists close the gap...

LAUNCH OF OPEN HUMANITIES PRESS

Thu, 08 May 2008 14:00:15 UT

Open Access expands to humanities disciplines with a bold new publishing initiative in critical and cultural theory

Digital Libraries à la Carte

Wed, 07 May 2008 18:37:17 UT

Ticer’s new, modular course for librarians and publishers "Digital Libraries à la Carte" will be held at Tilburg University, The Netherlands, 25-29 August 2008.

How to use copyright wisely within scholarly communication

Wed, 07 May 2008 17:50:00 UT

Chemists spin a web of data

Wed, 07 May 2008 17:50:00 UT

Harvard Law faculty votes for 'open access' to scholarly articles

Wed, 07 May 2008 17:27:31 UT

NIH Updates its Public Access Policy FAQ

Wed, 07 May 2008 15:34:39 UT

The NIH has made significant revisions to its NIH Public Access Policy Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page (http://publicaccess.nih.gov/FAQ.htm). These revisions were posted on May 2, 2008. For your reference, we have detailed the revisions – which include one blanket change, a series of added questions and answers, and some revisions –below. Please circulate to anyone who may be interested in or affected by the policy.

C&RL preprints go open access

Tue, 06 May 2008 18:50:00 UT

College & Research Libraries (C&RL), the bi-monthly scholarly journal of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), is pleased to announce the launch of an open access, pre-publication service for accepted articles.

Progress toward Public Access to Science

Tue, 06 May 2008 18:40:00 UT

WHO IP And Health Group Concludes With Progress; Tough Issues Remain For Assembly

Tue, 06 May 2008 18:10:00 UT

From Gavin Baker:

The article doesn't contain much news on the OA-related provisions of the plan, but it does contain a working link to the latest available draft (as of May 3). This permits comparison to the latest version available from the WHO (dated July 31, 2007). Of note is the language in element 2.4, not present in the previous version:

(2.4) Promoting greater access to knowledge and technology relevant to meet public health needs of developing countries ...

(b) promote public access to the results of government funded research, by strongly encouraging that all investigators funded by governments submit to an open access database an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts ...

Open Access Directory: A wiki to organize information about the open access movement

Tue, 06 May 2008 14:04:24 UT

Peter Suber and Robin Peek have launched the Open Access Directory (OAD), a wiki where the open access community can create and maintain simple factual lists about open access to science and scholarship. Suber, a Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College, and Peek, an Associate Professor of Library and Information Science at Simmons College, conceived the project in order to collect OA-related lists for one-stop reference and searching. The wiki will start operating with about half a dozen lists --for example, conferences devoted to open access, discussion forums devoted to open access, and journal "declarations of independence"-- and add more over time.