Indian newspaper on OA Day
Sane Bhagyashree and Gole Bhakti, Mahitichi mukta upalabdhata, Sakaal, October 14, 2008; self-archived November 13, 2008. (In Marathi.) English abstract:14th October is cele...
October issue of Ariadne
The October 2008 issue of Ariadne is now available. Some articles relevant to OA:Rob Davies, Europeana: An Infrastructure for Adding Lo...
Rather be Sailing but There's No Land in Sight
It's over. And I feel like getting back to work on MY life. P.S. Bryan, Thanks so much for your message in response to my original post here. Helped put things in perspective. Sax Audition on Friday. Good god I need more time....
Libraries and OER
Nan L. Singh, The Librarian As Essential Key to Connecting Open Educational Resources and Information Literacy in the Academic World, essay for a class at San Jose State University, self-archived No...
Recommend OA to Obama's new Chief Technology Officer
ObamaCTO is a new site for recommending ideas to Obama's CTO and voting on the ideas submitted by others. (It's independent of the Obama transition team.)I just submitted this idea: ...
I'd Rather be Sailing but There's no land in sight
I made a decision this week that clearly set a facet of who I am in stone. I can't commit. I push away. Somethings will never change... some things do. I destroyed the bridge to a happiness that was clearly not meant to be, or was it? That's the question ...
Moving toward free lending libraries of digital works
Jeffrey J. Erwin, Copyright and the Digital Library, a preprint self-archived November 2, 2008. Abstract: This paper describes the legal and technical issues ...
Reversing the privatization of memory institutions
Guy Pessach, (Networked) Memory Institutions: Social Remembering, Privatization and its Discontents, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, April 2, 2008. The publishe...
Still Here
Hello!It's been a long time since I've written. I have just been getting used to life in Germany. We are currently working on new designs that will be ready before December so that holiday gifts will be available! Specifically, we are worki...
Ways to use a repository's RSS feed
Les Carr points out that an RSS feed of the most recent items deposited in a repository can be embedded somewhere else, such as a widget for a blog....
The Political Fix!
I'm relieved, excited, astonished, and finally hopeful! Barack Obama had my vote! pheww...I have a ton to comment on this week. Check back in a few....
Causal Domain Shear
Causal Domain Shear: The tendency for distinct and completely seperate "causal domains"(groups of things linked by cause and effect relationships) to influence one another through tenuous or temporary relationships....
A new platform for electronic publishing
Launch of CARPET project development of a platform for electronic publishing tools, a press release from the Max Planck Society, N...
Sociology of the acceptance of OA
Ulrich Herb, Open Access - A Panacea? Science, Society, Democracy, Digital Divide, a preprint self-archived on November 4, 2008. Abstract: Cla...
Great expectations for an Obama administration
Barack Obama's victory has ignited worldwide excitement, and should excite friends of OA as well. Neither Obama nor McCain took a position on the NIH policy, or on the
Five Tips for Cheap Gifts!
The holiday season is right around the corner and midterms are now over (at least I hope for some of you). I'm getting ready to start holiday shopping, in fact, I already have, so I won't be so stressed out after finals are over, with little cash. Here's ...
OA journal launches repository for article-related datasets
The Optical Society of America has launched a repository to host datasets associated with articles published in its journals, including the OA journal Optics Express. OSA is calling the initiative "Interac...
Costs of limiting PubMed searches to Free Full Text
Mary M. Krieger, Randy R. Richter, and Tricia M. Austin, An exploratory analysis of PubMed's free full-text limit on citation retrieval for clinical questions, Journal ...
