Open Access News

News from the open access movement

Friday, November 20, 2009

The revised Google Book Settlement gained preliminary court approval. The deadline for comments is January 28, 2010, with the final fairness hearing scheduled for February 18.
A grant from the National Science Foundation will help enhance arXiv.
The Saarland University and State Library is conducting a questionnaire on "the desirability of various features which can be implemented in repository systems".
HathiTrust launched its search tool for Google-digitized books.
The British Library added the 500,000th item to its digital library -- but don't expect to see it for free.
Cameron Neylon takes a closer look at Nature Communications, the announced Nature-branded hybrid OA journal.
LinuxInsider looks at open source science.
T. Scott Plutchak says that everybody likes the idea of OA, but not everybody is sure that mandates for publicly-funded research are "the best way to get there".
Wikimedia picks up plaudits: the Webby Awards named Wikipedia one of the ten most influential projects of the decade, and the Huffington Post named Wikimedia's executive director Sue Gardner the year's top "game changer" in media.

Posted by Gavin Baker at 11/20/2009 06:36:00 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.