Open Access News

Tomorrow (May 1, 2010) Google will turn off FTP updating for Blogger. The old FTP-based Blogger blogs

I just mailed the April issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. This issue reviews some reader-

The word contest in my March newsletter is generating some enthusiastic responses. In the first 24

I just mailed the March issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. This issue takes a close look at

Happy birthday to the Budapest Open Access Initiative, which is eight years old today. The BOAI

Prepping for your Graduate Record Exams? Here's a sample essay topic from a GRE study guide: All

I just mailed the February issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. This issue takes a close look

The public comment period on the Obama administration's consultation on OA for federally-funded

Now that Gavin has departed, and my time is still occupied with other OA work, what will become of

Gavin Baker joined Open Access News as assistant editor in February 2008, two weeks shy of two years

For the past two years, my work on Open Access News has been funded by SPARC. My funding ends today,

PLoS launched a new collection of research from the Tagging of Pacific Predators group of the Census

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, NIDCR Launches the FaceBase Consortium, press

Draft of an Open Data Commons Attribution License, Open Data Commons , January 11, 2010. Open Data

US House Science and Technology Committee, Report Finds Common Ground in Efforts to Balance Public

David Crotty, Going Legit: The Difficult Path from Piracy to Partnership, The Scholarly Kitchen ,

Maney Publishing launches open access model, press release, January 15, 2010. Maney Publishing is

SPARC honors Optical Society of America as a pioneer in scholarly publishing innovation, press

OA journal announcements, launches, and conversions spotted in the past week: New OA journals:

Eric Pfanner, France Offers Google Its Books in Exchange for Tax, New York Times , January 14, 2010.

Jeff Good, LSA Data Sharing Resolution, Cyberling Blog , January 11, 2010. At the recently concluded

American Library Association and Association of College and Research Libraries response to the Office

Gavin Baker, Open access: Advice on working with faculty senates, College & Research Libraries

Canadian Association of Research Libraries, CARL Produces Data Management Awareness Toolkit, press

Phoebe Ayers, 2009 in Review, The Wikipedia Signpost , January 11, 2010. 2009 was Wikipedia's

Joseph Juma Musakali, Bridging the digital divide through open access, SciDev.Net , January 6, 2010.

The National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KB) has released its Strategic Plan

Phillip Larson, Public Access Policy Forum Enters “Bonus” Round, OSTP Blog , January 11, 2010. ... [W

The Scholarly Publishing Roundtable --a US group consisting mostly of librarians, publishers, and

I'll be out tomorrow, but the Open Access Tracking Project remains active, as always. Happy