[Open Access News] Open access roundup

[Gavin Baker]

• Oxford Brookes University launched its IR, containing both research outputs and learning objects.
• Dan Cohen asks, "Is Google Good for History?"
• An interview with Antony Williams of ChemSpider.
• UNESCO's new head of science policy suggests creating "virtual science museums".
• The Hebrew-language Wikipedia reaches 100,000 articles.

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Posted By Gavin Baker to Open Access News at 1/13/2010 07:14:00 PM

[Gavin Baker]

• The Institute of Cancer Research has begun asking its researchers to contribute their publications to the IR.
• BMC journal Cancer Cell International has been accepted for indexing by Thomson Reuters and will receive its first impact factor this year.
• BioMed Central announced partnerships with CLOCKSS and Portico for preservation of its journals' contents.
• Lawrence Lessig lectures on "Open Content and the Ethics of Science".

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Posted By Gavin Baker to Open Access News at 1/14/2010 07:30:00 PM

[Gavin Baker]

• PLoS launched a new collection of research from the Tagging of Pacific Predators group of the Census of Marine Life.
• The National Library of Finland made two of its catalogs OA: LINDA, the union catalog of Finnish university libraries, and ARTO, an index of Finnish scholarly journals.
• Lars Juhl Jensen looks for correlations among PLoS' article-level metrics.
• Leigh Blackall proposes a journal with open post-publication review, free reuse, and OA to the underlying data.

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Posted By Gavin Baker to Open Access News at 1/15/2010 05:13:00 PM