May 29, 2008
New-Media Scholars' Place in 'the Pool' Could Lead to Tenure

May 29, 2008
What can Bloggers do for Open Access?

May 28, 2008
New Beta version of the Ranking Web of World Repositories

May 28, 2008
OAN is six

May 25, 2008
“An Introduction to Health Commons” by John Wilbanks

May 23, 2008
Editorial: A New Approach to Scholarship Access

May 23, 2008
OA speakers bureau
The Open Access Directory (OAD) just opened an OA speakers bureau for community editing and enlargement.

May 21, 2008
CLA Position Statement on Open Access for Canadian Libraries

May 20, 2008
Six Australian universities have joined the CERN SCOAP3 project

May 18, 2008
Biotech Breakthroughs: 15 Developments That Will Eventually Affect YOUR Life

May 17, 2008
PubChemSR: A search and retrieval tool for PubChem

May 16, 2008
Study Warned of China Quake Risk Nearly a Year Ago

May 16, 2008
Strands of a Global Web of Knowledge Come Together at the Third International Open Repositories Conference 2008

May 15, 2008
University of Oregon senate encourages use of an author addendum

May 15, 2008
The LJ Academic Newswire Newsmaker Interview: Shawn Martin, Penn’s New Scholarly Communication Librarian

May 13, 2008
Student video on Open Access
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)

May 8, 2008
New Open-Access Humanities Press Makes Its Debut
(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...

May 8, 2008
LAUNCH OF OPEN HUMANITIES PRESS
Open Access expands to humanities disciplines with a bold new publishing initiative in critical and cultural theory

May 7, 2008
Digital Libraries à la Carte
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.

May 7, 2008
How to use copyright wisely within scholarly communication

May 7, 2008
Chemists spin a web of data

May 7, 2008
Harvard Law faculty votes for 'open access' to scholarly articles

May 6, 2008
C&RL preprints go open access
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.

May 6, 2008
Progress toward Public Access to Science

May 6, 2008
WHO IP And Health Group Concludes With Progress; Tough Issues Remain For Assembly

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 ...