Open Access News

News from the open access movement

Friday, November 06, 2009

Sweden's Pirate Party, which supports OA, will gain its second seat in the European Parliament, thanks to reapportionment as part of the recently ratified Lisbon Treaty.
Three more BioMed Central journals have been accepted for tracking by Thomson Reuters and will receive impact factors.
RePEc added 16 new participating archives in October 2009.
PubMed Central will show the table of contents for some embargoed journals before the embargoed content is available.
The OA Hazardous Substances Data Bank added its first set of records on nanomaterials.
John Wilbanks shares his further thoughts on why "open source" is an insufficient metaphor for open approaches to science.
Barbara Fister on libraries: "We must position ourselves as the champions of students and faculty and their right to read and learn without ... hindrances and barriers".
Meanwhile, Lawrence Lessig tells educational technologies to become "radical militant activists" for legal, accessible sharing of knowledge.
The revised draft Google Book Settlement is due on November 9, Kenneth Crews reminds us.
Anne Fitzgerald released her report on public sector information, Open access policies, practices and licensing: a review of the literature in Australia and selected jurisdictions.

Posted by Gavin Baker at 11/06/2009 04:39:00 PM.

The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature on the internet. Making it available free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Removing the barriers to serious research.

I curtailed my blogging on July 1, 2009, and recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter. �Peter Suber.