And what about a human geography wiki? The software is proven and the format familiar to everyone,
not least our students. If everyone who signed up to the IEHG contributed an entry we'd have an large-
scale, open source, dynamic resource. Wikimedia also has a project involving textbooks.
Kendra.
In message <[log in to unmask]> coolie <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> "We now have the tools at our disposal to do things differently, so
> that's no longer an excuse. Everywhere the power of conventional
> information distribution is quaking at the sound of millions of typing,
> downloading, blogging and filesharing fingers..."
>
> Self-archiving is a first step, but it's picking up slow. Almost all of
> us have some web-space on the uni or college server? I do apologize for
> singling someone out and I might have miscalculated, but I couldn't
> help checking the IEHG editors' staff-pages for self-archived material
> and eight (8; with a nice counting) out of the 20 has some up there.
> Just to show the tendency, we could all start with what we do have.
>
> On the forwarded below, I can't really break this down and give a short
> commentary, but some might have heard of it regarding these issues?
>
> at stumps,
> jonas
> –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
> Jonas R Bylund, PhD
> Dept. of Human Geography
> Stockholm University
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> http://people.su.se/~jbylu/
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>
> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: Peter Suber <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: den 2 mars 2007 15.59.22 MET
> To: "SPARC Open Access Newsletter" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [SOAN] SPARC Open Access Newsletter, 3/2/07
>
>
> The SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #107
> March 2, 2007
> by Peter Suber
>
> Read this issue online
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/03-02-07.htm
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>
> The Ides of February in Europe: The European Commission plan for open
> access
>
> The Ides of February were a turning point for OA in Europe. The
> European Commission hosted a conference on scientific publishing
> (Brussels, February 15-16, 2007) and kicked it off with a long-awaited,
> non-binding "Communication" on its thinking about an EU-wide OA mandate
> for EU-funded research.
>
> The most important bit of background is that last year an
> EC-commissioned report recommended --in its lead recommendation, A1--
> that the EC "guarantee public access to publicly-funded research
> results shortly after publication."
>
> After the report came out, the EC opened a two-month public-comment
> period (April-May 2006) and reported in October 2006 that
> "participants...reacted positively overall....However, some caution was
> expressed by publishers...." It promised to issue a Communication on
> its deliberations at an EC-hosted conference in mid-February 2007.
>
> As the Ides of February 2007 approached, friends and foes of a European
> OA mandate began to weigh in. In January 2007, the Scientific Council
> of the European Research Commission (ERC) pledged to adopt an OA
> mandate "as soon as pertinent repositories become operational". About
> a week later, the European Research Advisory Board (EURAB) recommended
> an OA mandate for EU-funded research. A few days later, four public
> funding agencies in Europe (in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and
> the UK) and SPARC Europe launched a petition calling for an EU-wide OA
> mandate. Later in the month, the European University Association (EUA)
> Working Group on Open Access joined the call for an OA mandate. On
> February 13, two days before the Brussels Conference and in the same
> city, 15 Belgian university rectors and two government ministers signed
> the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge. On the same day,
> on the other side of the issue, 35 publishers and eight publisher
> associations issued the Brussels Declaration, opposing the idea of an
> OA mandate.
>
> Here's a little timeline of the main events:
>
> * March 31, 2006. The EC released an EC-commissioned report
> recommending an EU-wide mandate for EU-funded research ("Study on the
> Economic and Technical Evolution of the Scientific Publication Markets
> in Europe" by Françoise Vandooren and Mathias Dewatripont, both of the
> Université Libre de Bruxelles). The official date on the report is
> January 2006.
>
> * March 31 - June 1, 2006. The EC collects public comments on the
> report.
>
> * October 9, 2006. The EC released the public comments on the report
> and a summary (favorable overall but with some reservations expressed
> by publishers).
>
> * January 2007. The Scientific Council of the European Research
> Commission (ERC) pledged to adopt an OA mandate "as soon as pertinent
> repositories become operational" (in a document dated December 2006 but
> apparently not released until January 2007).
>
> * January 10, 2007. The European Research Advisory Board (EURAB)
> recommended an OA mandate for EU-funded research. EURAB was created by
> the EC precisely to give advice on research policy.
>
> * January 14, 2007. Four national research funders (DEFF, DFG, JISC,
> SURF) and and SPARC Europe launched an online "Petition for guaranteed
> public access to publicly-funded research results".
>
> * January 26, 2007. The European University Association (EUA) Working
> Group on Open Access endorsed the OA recommendations from the EC
> report, ERC, and EURAB.
>
> * February 13, 2007. Fifteen Belgian university rectors and two
> government ministers signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to
> Knowledge.
>
> * February 13, 2007. A group of publishers and publisher associations
> released the Brussels Declaration on STM Publishing, February 13, 2007,
> opposing an OA mandate.
>
> * February 14, 2007. Les Carr released the results of a poll of
> EU-funded researchers: 86% supported an OA mandate for publicly-funded
> research and 14% did not.
>
> * February 15-16, 2007. The EC hosted a meeting in Brussels:
> Scientific Publishing in the European Research Area - Access,
> Dissemination, and Preservation in the Digital Age.
>
> * February 15, 2007. OA proponents presented the "Petition for
> guaranteed public access to publicly-funded research results" with over
> 20,000 signatures to Janez Potocnik, Commissioner of the EC's Research
> Directorate-General.
>
> * February 15, 2007. The EC released its long-awaited "Communication
> on access to scientific information in the digital age" along with four
> related documents: a Staff Working Paper, an FAQ, the text of Janez
> Potocnik's opening address at the Brussels meeting, and a press
> release.
>
> After all this build-up, the EC Communication was somewhat
> anti-climactic. And I must say, the lack of fireworks looks
> deliberate. The two EC Directorates General most involved in OA
> policy-making --Information Society and Media, headed by Vivian Reding,
> and Research, headed by Janez Potocnik-- are trying to find a
> diplomatic trail through a minefield. They are eager to show support
> for the concerns on each side and postpone the day when they will have
> to alienate one of them.
>
> The Communication is not a policy but a pointer toward a future policy.
> It sends two signals: first that the EC has been listening to
> arguments from both sides and second, that all things considered it
> wants to move toward OA. "Initiatives leading to wider access to and
> dissemination of scientific information are necessary, especially with
> regard to journal articles and research data produced on the basis of
> public funding" (EC Communication, p. 7; link below). What it does not
> do is squarely accept or reject the EC report's recommendation A1 for
> an OA mandate.
>
> * On the primary question of an OA mandate, the EC says only that it
> will "issue specific guidelines on the publication of articles in open
> repositories after an embargo period" (p. 8). It doesn't tell us when
> it will issue the guidelines, whether the guidelines will require or
> merely encourage OA, what the maximum permissible embargo will be, why
> it hesitates to adopt recommendation A1, or what new information or
> insights it needs before coming to a decision. It does tell us that
> the guidelines will vary by discipline and funding program; hence even
> if the rules in some areas are strong enough, others are likely to be
> weak.
>
> In her closing address at the Brussels meeting, Vivian Reding suggested
> that the EC is not waiting for new information so much as a resolution
> to an ongoing debate: "The key question in all this seems to be: how
> to combine a rapid and wide dissemination of validated results with a
> fair remuneration for those who make investments to make the system
> work? As usual, the devil is in the detail. What is a fair
> remuneration and what is an embargo period that makes a fair
> remuneration possible? There is a need for a continued and constructive
> debate on these issues." (See her address, p. 3; link below.)
>
> This position would make more sense if the debate were still in its
> early stages, or if the parties were closer together, or if the EC were
> a neutral bystander. But none of these conditions holds.
>
> I suggest that the role of the EC in this controversy is to find its
> own interest, as a major funder of scientific research (more than €50
> billion for FP7), and to assert that interest. If it waits for a
> consensus of the other players, it will wait indefinitely and abdicate
> its responsibility to European researchers and taxpayers.
>
> To her credit, Reding acknowledges that the EC is a stakeholder, not a
> bystander. Nevertheless, at least for now, she seems to see its role
> as mediating a controversy rather than deciding it. Reding and
> Potocnik should recognize that taxpayers are a major stakeholder in
> this debate and are not otherwise represented at the table.
>
> I'm not calling for a one-sided decision. Publishers and taxpayers
> both make a contribution to the value of peer-reviewed articles arising
> from publicly-funded research. When deciding how to give each group
> its due, I've often argued that the EC report's recommendation A1 (or
> alternatively, FRPAA) is a reasonable compromise: a period of
> exclusivity for the publisher followed by permanent free online access
> for the public. Publishers who want to block OA mandates per se,
> rather than just negotiate the embargo period, are saying that they
> want no compromise, that the public should get nothing for its
> investment, and that publishers should control access to research
> conducted by others, written up by others, and funded by taxpayers.
>
> On three related issues the EC Communication is unhesitating and
> positive:
>
> * The EC will help pay publication fees at fee-based OA journals, a
> position I have supported for funding agencies that can afford it.
> "[P]roject costs related to publishing, including open access
> publishing, will be eligible for a Community financial contribution"
> (p. 8). This policy provides unembargoed OA, supports a new generation
> of peer-review providers, and lessens --or ought to lessen-- the
> opposition of publishers. The EC doesn't promise to pay whatever
> publishers charge, and it goes beyond merely offering financial support
> to positively encouraging researchers to take advantage of it. The
> language suggests that the EC is also willing to help pay publication
> fees (e.g. page and color charges) at non-OA journals.
>
> The Communication uses the term "experiment" several times but doesn't
> apply it specifically to this policy. However, the press release
> accompanying the Communication does apply it to this policy. What
> would lead the EC to continue, revise, or terminate this experiment?
> So far, no word.
>
> (Unfortunately, in discussing publication fees at OA journals the EC
> still uses the misleading term "author pays" for OA journals and still
> seems to believe that all OA journals charge publication fees when in
> fact most of them do not.)
>
> * The EC supports a strong policy of OA for data, following the OECD
> Declaration on open data from January 2004, which the EU signed.
> "Fully publicly funded research data should in principle be accessible
> to all" (p. 8).
>
> Will the EC require or merely encourage OA for data? Is there a
> difference between the access policy we should have "in principle" and
> the access policy the EC will adopt in practice? Will it host its own
> OA data repositories or take advantage of distributed institutional
> repositories? What steps will it take to protect the privacy of
> research subjects in medical and social science research? What steps
> will it take for data mark-up, interoperability, annotation, and
> attribution? What steps will it take to encourage authors and
> publishers to integrate journal articles with their underlying data?
> So far, no word.
>
> * The EC will generously fund OA infrastructure. It has budgeted about
> €50 million for building and linking OA repositories throughout Europe,
> and that's just for the two-year period 2007-08. In the same period it
> will spend about €25 million on digital preservation. And in the
> period 2005-08, it will spend €10 on the eContentPlus program "to
> improve the accessibility and usability of scientific content, in
> particular addressing issues of interoperability and multilingual
> access" (p. 9).
>
> This is the largest government allocation to OA infrastructure in
> history, even after we subtract the portion primarily dedicated to
> digital preservation.
>
> (The Communication spends as much time on long-term preservation as it
> does on open access. While I support digital preservation initiatives,
> and think they strengthen OA initiatives, I omit them here in order to
> focus on the direct OA issues.)
>
> * Finally, the Communication outlines a process for moving forward.
> The EC will take up OA policy with the European Parliament and Council
> of Ministers. It invites member states to "explore common strategies".
> It will continue to consult with stakeholders. And it will launch a
> study of digital preservation and "support research" on the scientific
> publication in Europe and beyond, "for example on publication business
> models, dissemination strategies, and the connections between research
> excellence, scientific integrity and the scientific publication system"
> (p. 9).
>
> * The 18-page "Staff Working Paper" accompanying the Communication does
> a very good job of embedding the policy questions in context: the rise
> of digital technologies, the rise of journal prices, the rise in
> government research budgets, the rise of OA, the growing number of
> journals, the growing volume of data, and the benefits of enhancing
> access to research. It doesn't shed new light on the EC's future OA
> policy except by making much of the case for OA without explicitly
> drawing the conclusion.
>
> That's all we have so far. The announced policies all favor OA and the
> major unannounced policy (on OA archiving) has been framed by pro-OA
> arguments. Opponents of an OA mandate found little to praise. Putting
> the best face on it, the STM's February 15 press release praised the
> EC's "interest...in scientific publishing", its desire for "continuing
> dialogue", and its very lack of a policy decision, as if the EC were
> "recognising that further research on preservation and economics is
> essential before adopting any policy positions."
>
> * Where does this leave us?
>
> We have to keep working for a simple, enforceable mandate on OA
> archiving for publicly-funded research. We have to take advantage of
> the fact that the future guidelines are still under development. We
> have to show that OA policies relying only on requests and
> encouragement fail, as documented by the NIH. We have to show that the
> research community is calling for an OA mandate, for example through
> the EC's own study
> > from last year, the European Research Council
> (ERC), the European Research Advisory Board (EURAB), the European
> University Association (EUA), and the now-22,800+ signatures on the OA
> petition.
>
> We have to show that there are ways to satisfy some publisher concerns
> without abandoning an OA mandate, for example, by mandating immediate
> deposit without immediate OA, allowing a reasonable embargo period on
> OA, and applying the policy to the final version of the author's
> peer-reviewed manuscript rather than the published version. We have to
> show that further concessions to publishers will put the financial
> interests of a private industry ahead of the public interest in
> advancing research and jeopardize the mission of the EU's public
> funding agencies.
>
> We have to be fully involved in the future stakeholder consultations.
> When the question moves to the European Parliament for discussion and
> debate, we have to anticipate relentless and well-funded publisher
> lobbying. We have to help members understand the issues, make clear
> that publishers who oppose an OA mandate do not speak for researchers,
> and make clear that researchers need OA.
>
> Note that the Communication and Staff Working Paper must have been in
> final or near-final form well before the Brussels conference. Hence,
> neither the pro-OA petition nor the anti-OA Brussels Declaration
> affected their language. But they could well affect the language of
> the future policy on OA archiving. For that reason, the petition is
> still open for signatures and we cannot relax the effort to communicate
> the need for OA and its benefits to researchers and research
> institutions throughout Europe.
>
> * Here are the documents and events I mentioned above, with a few
> related links:
>
> Study on the Economic and Technical Evolution of the Scientific
> Publication Markets in Europe, January 2006 (released March 31, 2006).
> This is the report by Françoise Vandooren and Mathias Dewatripont,
> commissioned by the EC, that recommended an OA mandate.
> http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/06/
> 414&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2006_04_02_fosblogarchive.html#114407521001187068
>
> My SOAN article about the EC report
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/05-02-06.htm#ecreport
>
> EC summary of the public comments on the report, October 9, 2006
> http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=NEWSLINK_EN_C&RCN=26464&ACTION=D
> http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/
> synthesis-consultation_en.pdf
>
> EC home page on scientific publications and research policy
> http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/page_en.cfm?id=3184
>
> Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC)
> http://europa.eu.int/erc/index_en.cfm
>
> ERC Scientific Council Statement on Open Access, December 2006 (not
> apparently released or noticed until January 2007)
> http://erc.europa.eu/pdf/open-access.pdf
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2006_12_31_fosblogarchive.html#116792021437140697
>
> European Research Advisory Board (EURAB)
> http://ec.europa.eu/research/eurab/index_en.html
>
> EURAB's report: Scientific Publication: Policy On Open Access (dated
> December 2006 but released January 10, 2007)
> http://ec.europa.eu/research/eurab/pdf/
> eurab_scipub_report_recomm_dec06_en.pdf
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_01_07_fosblogarchive.html#116845221537275857
>
> European University Association (EUA)
> http://www.eua.be/eua/index.jsp
>
> Statement from the European University Association (EUA) Working Group
> on Open Access, January 26, 2007
> http://www.eua.be/fileadmin/user_upload/files/newsletter/
> EUA_WG_open_access.pdf
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_01_28_fosblogarchive.html#117043049723197107
>
> Fifteen Belgian university rectors and two government ministers signed
> the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge --in Brussels, two
> days before the EC-hosted Brussels conference on scientific publishing,
> February 13, 2007.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117138244311867457
>
> Brussels Declaration on STM Publishing, February 13, 2007
> http://www.stm-assoc.org/documents-statements-public-co/
> 2007%20BRUSSELS%20DECLARATION%20130207.pdf
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117138731546079566
>
> STM press release accompanying the Brussels Declaration, February 13,
> 2007
> http://www.stm-assoc.org/press-releases/
> 2007.02%20Brussels%20Declaration%20Press%20Release%20130207.pdf
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117140094833622661
>
> Les Carr, The EC Petition and the EC Poll, a message posted to several
> discussion lists, February 14, 2007
> https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/3604.html
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117146708270624318
>
> Petition for Guaranteed Public Access to Publicly-Funded Research.
> Launched January 14, 2007, delivered to the EC February 15, 2007, and
> still open for signatures.
> http://www.ec-petition.eu/
>
> EC Communication on access to scientific information in the digital
> age, February 15, 2007
> http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/
> doc/scientific_information/communication_en.pdf
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117166447907611213
>
> EC Staff Working Paper to accompany the Communication, February 15, 2007
> http://ec.europa.eu/doc/scientific_information/swp_en.pdf
> http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/
> doc/scientific_information/swp_en.pdf
>
> EC FAQ on the Communication
> http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/07/
> 57&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
>
> Janez Potocnik's opening address at the Brussels meeting, February 15,
> 2007
> http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/07/
> 83&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
>
> EC press release on the documents released on February 15, 2007
> http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/07/
> 190&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
>
> Worldwide petition on open access delivered to European Commission, a
> press release from JISC, February 15, 2007.
> http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2007/02/news_petition2.aspx
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117157072527428629
>
> Scientific Publishing in the European Research Area - Access,
> Dissemination, and Preservation in the Digital Age (Brussels, February
> 15-16, 2007). This is the EC-hosted conference where the Communication
> was released and the petition presented.
> http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/page_en.cfm?id=3459
>
> STM press release on EC Communication, February 15, 2007
> http://www.stm-assoc.org/press-releases/
> 2007.02%20STM%20Press%20Release%20EC%20Communication%20on%20Scientific%2
> 0Information.pdf
>
> OECD Declaration on Access to Research Data From Public Funding,
> January 30, 2004
> http://www.oecd.org/document/
> 0,2340,en_2649_34487_25998799_1_1_1_1,00.html
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2004_01_25_fosblogarchive.html#107548330956944309
>
> Viviane Reding's closing address at the Brussels meeting, February 16,
> 2007
> http://ec.europa.eu/commission_barroso/reding/docs/speeches/
> scientific_info_en.pdf
>
> * Here's some news and comment on the February events in Brussels:
>
> Joan Bakewell, A blow to the idea that knowledge is for all to share,
> The Independent, February 2, 2007.
> http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_a_l/joan_bakewell/
> article2208220.ece
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117148552910352618
>
> Philipp Berens, Forscher fordern freien Zugang zu wissenschaftlichen
> Arbeiten, Jetzt, February 4, 2007.
> http://jetzt.sueddeutsche.de/texte/anzeigen/359206
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_04_fosblogarchive.html#117114564710510155
>
> Jessica Shepherd, Open season for researchers, The Guardian, February
> 13, 2007.
> http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,2011534,00.html
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117134075161471574
>
> The Brussels Declaration on STM Publishing, February 13, 2007.
> http://www.stm-assoc.org/documents-statements-public-co/
> 2007%20BRUSSELS%20DECLARATION%20130207.pdf
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117138731546079566
>
> William Walsh, The Brussels Declaration on STM Publishing, Issues in
> Scholarly Communication, February 13, 2007.
> http://www.library.gsu.edu/news/index.asp?
> view=details&ID=12123&typeID=62
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117146640277559255
>
> Heather Morrison, The Mission of the STM Publisher: Scholarship - or
> Profit? Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, February 13, 2007.
> http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2007/02/mission-of-stm-publisher-
> scholarship-or_13.html
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117146797707516547
>
> Mark Chillingworth, Publishers fire broadside at EU open access
> ambitions, Information World Review, February 15, 2007.
> http://blog.iwr.co.uk/2007/02/publishers_fire.html
>
> Matt Hodgkinson, Declaration of Pomposity, and a Declaration of War?
> Journalology, February 15, 2007.
> http://journalology.blogspot.com/2007/02/declaration-of-pomposity-
> and.html
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117154715249598470
>
> Paul Meller, EU to push online publication of scientific data,
> InfoWorld, February 15, 2007.
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/15/HNeuonlinescience_1.html
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117158738850609473
>
> EU outlines digital age strategy, The Parliament, February 15, 2007.
> http://www.eupolitix.com/EN/News/200702/c6bf9dcb-087a-4530-8d8d-
> d97db36b5a7e.htm
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117158789001349878
>
> EU To Support More Cost-Free Access To Research Results, Wall Street
> Journal, February 15, 2007.
> http://users2.wsj.com/lmda/do/checkLogin?mg=wsj-
> users2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FBT-CO-20070215
> -704322.html%3Fmod%3Ddist_smartbrief
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117158932156423604
>
> Self-Evident? In a Shot at Public Access Advocates, Publishers Release
> Brussels Declaration, Library Journal Academic Newswire, February 15,
> 2007.
> http://www.libraryjournal.com/clear/CA6416849.html?nid=2673#news2
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117159008035988347
>
> Charles W. Bailey, Jr., The Brussels Declaration: You Don’t Need a
> Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows, DigitalKoans, February 15,
> 2007.
> http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2007/02/15/the-brussels-
> declaration-you-dont-need-a-weatherman-to-know-which-way-the-wind-
> blows/
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117164666055281493
>
> Open access to scientific publishing draws controversy, EurActiv,
> February 16, 2007.
> http://www.euractiv.com/en/science/open-access-scientific-publishing-
> draws-controversy/article-161757
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117163101578090369
>
> Stevan Harnad, Impressions from Brussels EC Meeting, Open Access
> Archivangelism, February 17, 2007.
> http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/206-Impressions-from-
> Brussels-EC-Meeting.html
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117175096688225982
>
> Commission outlines measures to ensure access to scientific
> information, CORDIS News, February 17, 2007.
> http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=27152
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117175342468587858
>
> Glyn Moody, EU on OA: A Big Fat Nullity, Open..., February 19, 2007.
> http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2007/02/eu-on-oa-big-fat-nullity.html
>
> European Commission discusses future of scientific publishing, a press
> release from JISC, February 19, 2007.
> http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2007/02/news_ecconf.aspx
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117199377043118666
>
> More experiments needed to find best open access models, CORDIS News,
> February 19, 2007.
> http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=27163
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117189704664539129
>
> EC outlines information-access plans, Research Information, February
> 20, 2007.
> http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=31
>
> Open-access petition presented to EC, Research Information, February
> 20, 2007.
> http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=32
>
> Stefan Krempl, EU-Kommission fördert Open-Access-Publikationen, Heise
> online, February 20, 2007.
> http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/85512
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117199063530232731
>
> European Commission Issues Report on Scientific Information, Library
> Journal Academic Newswire, February 22, 2007.
> http://www.libraryjournal.com/clear/CA6418750.html?nid=2673#news1
>
> Europe not yet ready for mandatory open-access, Sciencesque, February
> 23, 2007.
> http://sciencesque.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/europe-not-yet-ready-for-
> mandatory-open-access/
>
> Martin Enserink, European Union Steps Back From Open-Access Leap,
> Science Magazine, February 23, 2007.
> http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/315/5815/1065a
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117226732051064893
>
> Improving access to European-funded research results, European Public
> Health Alliance, February 28, 2007.
> http://www.epha.org/a/2525
>
> Steve Hitchcock, Poll shows popular support for proposed EC
> Self-Archiving Mandate, Eprints Insiders, March 1, 2007.
> http://www.eprints.org/community/blog/index.php?/archives/189-Poll-
> shows-popular-support-for-proposed-EC-Self-Archiving-Mandate.html
>
> Stevan Harnad, Feedback on the Brussels EC Meeting on Open Access, Open
> Access Archivangelism, March 1, 2007.
> http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/209-Feedback-on-the-
> Brussels-EC-Meeting-on-Open-Access.html
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117275894289986405
>
> ----------
>
> The Ides of February in the US: The National Day of Action and other
> preparation for FRPAA
>
> In the US, FreeCulture and the Alliance for Taxpayer Access declared
> February 15 to be a National Day of Action for Open Access. At
> campuses across the country, students staged events to build support
> for FRPAA and celebrate the fifth birthday of the BOAI (on the 14th).
>
> FreeCulture is an international student movement active in copyright
> and patent reform, consumer rights, accountable voting systems, and
> freedom of expression. Its support for open access is most welcome.
> It understands the student stake in OA as well as the benefits for
> faculty, universities, libraries, physicians, patients, and taxpayers.
> It brings a fresh perspective, new energy, and 30 campus chapters
> across the US and several abroad. It has invaluable contacts with the
> next generation of publishing researchers, academic librarians,
> university administrators, journal editors, society officers,
> foundation managers, and legislators.
>
> February 15 was a day of OA education and consciousness raising. The
> University of Southern California hosted public talks by Cory Doctorow
> and Sasha Chock, and the University of Florida hosted public talks by
> Gavin Baker, Ashley Wills, and Stephanie Haas. Swarthmore, Emerson,
> and Reed Colleges, among others, set out tables of OA information
> staffed by volunteers.
>
> Harvard students submitted a pro-OA op-ed to the Harvard Crimson,
> announced an OA forum for the following week, and handed out OA
> bookmarks. Above all, they launched an OA Thesis Repository for
> undergraduate senior theses. The repository should become a regular
> part of student scholarship at Harvard, expose students to
> self-archiving, and of course give their work a larger audience and
> greater impact. The repository started accepting deposits yesterday.
>
> MIT students printed up "overprice tags" and stuck them on the print
> volumes of the 100 journals for which MIT pays more than $5,000/year.
> Each tag showed the name of the journal, the subscription price, the
> publisher, and a URL for an MIT page on OA. (Link to photos below.)
> MIT librarians had already created a web page listing the journals
> costing the institution more that $5,000/year --an idea that other
> institutions could emulate.
>
> Students weren't the only ones gearing up for the re-introduction of
> FRPAA:
>
> Randy Dotinga of Wired News got the first public confirmation that
> Senator John Cornyn does indeed plan to re-introduce FRPAA in the
> current session of Congress.
>
> Thirty-nine patient and consumer organizations sent open letters to
> Senators John Cornyn, Joe Lieberman, and Susan Collins in support of
> FRPAA. The signatories included groups like the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy
> Coalition, Arthritis Foundation, Center for Science in the Public
> Interest, and Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy.
>
> Publishers in the DC Principles Coalition issued a press release and
> petition opposing OA mandates for publicly-funded research.
>
> As long as I'm listing February events that anticipated the
> re-introduction of FRPAA, I should mention my article in the February
> SOAN, "Twelve reminders about FRPAA". I hope it arms activists and
> journalists against the kinds of misunderstandings and
> misrepresentations we saw last year and are already starting to see
> this year.
>
> * Here are some links on the National Day of Action for OA:
>
> FreeCulture.org
> http://www.freeculture.org/
>
> FreeCulture's chapters
> http://freeculture.org/chapters/
>
> Alliance for Taxpayer Access (ATA)
> http://www.taxpayeraccess.org
>
> Press release on the National Day of Action from FreeCulture.org and
> the Alliance for Taxpayer Access, February 1, 2007
> http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/media/Release07-0201.html
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_01_28_fosblogarchive.html#117042463056690445
>
> FreeCulture's list of events for the National Day of Action
> http://freeculture.org/blog/2007/02/15/events-for-national-day-of-
> action-for-open-access/
>
> MIT's announcement of the National Day of Action
> http://epsilon.media.mit.edu/openaccess/
>
> MIT events for the National Day of Action
> http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/archives/373
>
> Slideshow of the MIT Student Day of Action for Open Access
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/nic221/sets/72157594537521716
>
> Overprice Tags, an MIT project for the national day of action
> http://mako.cc/fun/overpricetags/
>
> MIT's (pre-existing) list of journal subscriptions costing more than
> $5,000/year
> http://web.archive.org/web/20050828210650/libraries.mit.edu/about/
> scholarly/expensive-titles.html
>
> Ellen Duranceau, A Conversation with Benjamin Mako Hill, organizer of
> the MIT Student Day of Action for Open Access, MIT Library News,
> undated but c. February 22, 2007.
> http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/archives/374
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117224172047878155
>
> Harvard events for the National Day of Action
> http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~freeculture/blog/?p=65
>
> The OA bookmark distributed at Harvard and other campuses
> http://www.rrrojer.net/fc/bookmark-neu-rev4.png
>
> The presentations from the Panel on open access research (Gainesville,
> Florida, February 15, 2007)
> http://uf.freeculture.org/2007/02/17/slides-from-open-access-panel-feb
> -15/
>
> * Here's some other February news and comment on FRPAA:
>
> Letter from 39 patient and consumer organizations wrote a letter to
> Senators John Cornyn and Joe Lieberman in support of FRPAA, February
> 16, 2007.
> http://www.cptech.org/a2k/cornyn-lieberman-public-access-letter.pdf
> --Letter from the same organizations to another to Senator Susan
> Collins in support of FRPAA, Febryary 16, 2007.
> http://www.cptech.org/a2k/collins-lieberman-public-access-letter.pdf
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117211658589356629
>
> Nonprofit publishers oppose government mandates for scientific
> publishing, a press release from the DC Principles Coalition, February
> 20, 2007.
> http://www.dcprinciples.org/press/2.htm
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117202895951705271
>
> The DC Principles Coalition launched a petition in support of society
> publishers who oppose FRPAA, c. February 21, 2007.
> http://www.dcprinciples.org/DCPS_PETITION/DCPS_PETITION/Petition.aspx
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117216682166251750
>
> Stevan Harnad, The DC Coalition: A Matter of Principle, Open Access
> Archivangelism, February 22, 2007.
> http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/207-The-DC-Coalition-
> A-Matter-of-Principle.html
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117216219543837662
>
> Randy Dotinga, Senator's Spokesman: Open-Access Bill Will Return, Wired
> News, February 22, 2007.
> http://blog.wired.com/biotech/2007/02/senators_spokes.html
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117215313735777466
>
> Tracey Caldwell, STM manifesto rubbishes open access research,
> Information World Review, March 2, 2007.
> http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2184595/stm-
> manifesto-rubbishes-open
>
> ----------
>
> Round-up
>
> Here's what happened, or what I noticed, since the last issue,
> emphasizing action and policy over scholarship and opinion. I put the
> most important items first, with double asterisks, and otherwise
> cluster them loosely by topic. Most of the time, I link to my blog
> postings, not to the sources themselves, because I only want to include
> one link and my blog postings usually bring many relevant links
> together.
>
> Because this section focuses on action and policy, it skips over
> several dust-ups in February about pitbulls, Barbie dolls, and slavery.
> (Aren't you glad?)
>
> ** The European Commission (EC) released its long-awaited, non-binding
> "Communication on access to scientific information in the digital age"
> along with a Staff Working Paper and FAQ.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117163624319006465
>
> ** Ronald Plasterk, one of the best-known OA proponents in the
> Netherlands, was appointed the country's minister of education,
> culture, and science.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117237322053868405
>
> ** Philip Esler, Chief Executive of England's Arts & Humanities
> Research Council (AHRC), confirmed to Richard Poynder that the AHRC
> plans to adopt an OA mandate for AHRC-funded research.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117250305558474649
>
> ** Senator John Cornyn's office confirmed to Randy Dotinga that the
> Senator will reintroduce FRPAA in the current session of Congress.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117215313735777466
>
> ** The University of California is considering a draft OA mandate.
> Instead of requiring faculty to deposit their work in an OA repository,
> it would require them to give the university permission to disseminate
> an OA copy.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117168794313780563
>
> ** Novartis provided OA to data on the human genes most likely to be
> associated with diabetes.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117132640076420288*
>
> ** The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) released a position
> statement on public access to scientific literature, calling for OA to
> publicly funded research within six months of its publication.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_04_fosblogarchive.html#117081224409020774
>
> ** The ATLAS Experiment at CERN released a Statement on Open Access
> Publishing encouraging its 1,800 participating scientists to publish
> their results in OA journals. (CERN scientists already operate under
> an OA archiving mandate.)
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117258357515257232
>
> ** FreeCulture.org and the Alliance for Taxpayer Access declared
> February 15, 2007, to be a National Day of Action for Open Access and
> FRPAA.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_01_28_fosblogarchive.html#117042463056690445
>
>
> * The e-Infrastructure Working Group of the UK Office of Science and
> Innovation issued a report endorsing the RCUK's OA mandate.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_04_fosblogarchive.html#117095091310783347
>
> * The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) released a draft
> Provosts' Statement On Publishing Agreements. It includes an author
> addendum enabling scholars to retain the rights they need to authorize
> postprint archiving.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117133978974130570
>
> * The American Association of University Presses (AAUP) released a
> Statement on Open Access. It expresses some skepticism about fee-based
> OA journals and a willingness to explore mixed business models and OA
> monographs.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117261116789135561
>
> * The Research Information Network published a report, prepared by
> Rightscom, on the OA and related policies of UK funding agencies.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_04_fosblogarchive.html#117082262760176823
>
> * The Research Information Network published a document, Research and
> the Scholarly Communications Process: Towards Strategic Goals for
> Public Policy: A Statement of Principles, which has been signed by an
> unusual combination of friends and foes of OA.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117268874388567040
>
> * The European Research Council, which has pledged to adopt an OA
> mandate, officially launched on February 27 at a meeting in Berlin.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117271597620322072
>
> * Thirty-nine patient and consumer organizations wrote a letter to
> Senators John Cornyn and Joe Lieberman, and another to Senator Susan
> Collins, in support of FRPAA, February 16, 2007.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117211658589356629
>
> * The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) adopted reforms
> favoring the "development agenda", which includes stronger protections
> for the public domain. In June we'll know what the reformed WIPO
> thinks of the Access to Knowledge Treaty, which includes a requirement
> for OA to publicly-funded research.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117242214622552042
>
> * AlouetteCanada, the digitization and OA project for Canadian cultural
> heritage, issued a Declaration that includes language supporting OA.
> The Declaration is undated but appears to be new.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117224996625893301
>
> * Francis Ouellette posted an Open Access declaration for the Ouellette
> Laboratory on his lab's web site.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_04_fosblogarchive.html#117106117434735993
>
> * On the first day of the EC-hosted Brussels conference (February 15),
> OA proponents delivered a petition with over 20,000 signatures to Janez
> Potocnik, EU Commissioner for Science and Research. The petition
> called for guaranteed public access to publicly-funded research in
> Europe.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117157072527428629
>
> * A group of publishers and publisher associations released the
> Brussels Declaration on STM Publishing on February 13, 2007.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117138731546079566
>
> * The STM press release on the Brussels Declaration gave evidence,
> perhaps inadvertently, that publishers had seen an advance copy of the
> EC Communication.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117140094833622661
>
> * Les Carr conducted a poll of EU-funded researchers showing that 86%
> supported OA to publicly-funded research.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117146708270624318
>
> * Ohio University's Russ College of Engineering and Technology and
> Center for International Studies now require electronic submission of
> theses and dissertations.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_04_fosblogarchive.html#117088517168799104
>
> * The Bowling Green State University Libraries and the Francis Countway
> Library of Medicine at Harvard Medical School joined the Alliance for
> Taxpayer Access.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117233271526770369
>
> * The Wikimedia Foundation signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access
> to Knowledge.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117216363169328124
>
> * The Swedish Association for Information Specialists, Vrije
> Universiteit Amsterdam, and the Institute for Metal Forming and Casting
> at the Technische Universität München have signed the Berlin
> Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117269143150701932
>
> * SURF announced that all the universities in the Netherlands have now
> signed the Berlin Declaration.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117276717548295651
>
> * Fifteen Belgian university rectors and two government ministers
> signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge --in
> Brussels, two days before the EC-hosted Brussels conference on
> scientific publishing.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117138244311867457
>
> * Students at Harvard College Free Culture launched an OA Thesis
> Repository for undergraduate senior theses.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117155629132330987
>
> * The Manchester Information and Associated Services (MIMAS) has
> received an £8.4 million grant from the UK's Economic & Social Research
> Council to provide free online access to government information.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117251305362825703
>
> * The Synergies project received $5.8 million grant from the Canadian
> Foundation of Innovation to develop scholarly publishing technologies.
> The grant includes work with Erudit and Open Journal Systems.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117157148305514608
>
> * The Directory of Open Access Journals launched a membership program.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117140560259690869
>
> * The Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) added 16 new
> graphs to show the state of the repositories in the directory.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117250542985056164
>
> * India's National Centre for Science Information launched CASSIR
> (Cross Archive Search Services for Indian Repositories). CASSIR
> currently indexes 15 of India's OA, OAI-compliant repositories and is
> working to index the rest.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117250005365771505
>
> * Catalysis Database is a new OA repository from India's National
> Centre for Catalysis Research.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117242839838682337
>
> * The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) released its
> Census of Institutional Repositories in the United States.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117232540862402578
>
> * The Alexandria Archive Institute officially launched Open Context,
> its OA repository and portal for archaeological data.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_04_fosblogarchive.html#117088994401362336
>
> * The University of Liverpool is preparing to launch an institutional
> repository and calling on interested faculty and departments to
> participate in a pre-launch pilot project.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117199147859674196
>
> * The Hong Kong Jockey Club donated $80 million to create Hong Kong
> Memory, an OA repository for the cultural heritage of Hong Kong.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117146859615596302
>
> * Creative Commons launched the 3.0 versions of its licenses.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117233568863708342
>
> * The DC Principles Coalition issued a press release opposing
> government mandates for scientific publishing (i.e. opposing a
> reintroduction of FRPAA), February 20, 2007.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117202895951705271
>
> * The DC Principles Coalition launched a petition in support of society
> publishers who oppose FRPAA, c. February 21, 2007.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117216682166251750
>
> * BioMed Central discovered that seven of the 10 most popular web sites
> in biology are OA, according to Alexa.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117216468656718551
>
> * Springer merged Foundation of Physics Letters with Foundations of
> Physics, making the former an OA section of the latter.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117181063178814922
>
> * Hindawi converted its last two subscription-based journals to OA and
> is now an OA-only publisher.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117209238438141687
>
> * Hindawi Publishing launched 10 new OA journals, the most by any
> publisher since May 2000 when BMC launched 57 OA journals.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_04_fosblogarchive.html#117073731238070661
>
> * PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases opened for submissions.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_01_28_fosblogarchive.html#117053455351268919
>
> * The National Library of Australia was reported to be experimenting
> with Open Journal Systems in preparation for publishing OA journals.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_04_fosblogarchive.html#117073606523213665
>
> * Google President and co-founder Larry Page gave a talk at the AAAS
> meeting in which called on scientists to "unlock" their work and make
> it more "accessible to the world".
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117183879653303422
>
> * A Belgian court decided that Google must stop including newspaper
> headlines among its search returns. The Belgian newspapers that
> brought suit are now vindicated and invisible.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117147986128743164
>
> * Princeton University joined the Google Library Project.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_04_fosblogarchive.html#117078935968573062
>
> * The University of Michigan Library posted some usability data on
> MBooks, the ebooks digitized
> > from the Michigan library by the Google Library Project.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_18_fosblogarchive.html#117233516414679950
>
> * PubDrug released its first seven peer-reviewed OA drug monographs.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117267495093118774
>
> * BioMed Central launched three blogs, one for BMC itself, one for
> Chemistry Central and one for PhysMath Central.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117166676819934847
>
> * The Budapest Open Access Initiative celebrated its fifth anniversary
> on February 14.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117146494448761111
>
> * German researchers criticized an access-limiting an agreement between
> a German library association (Deutscher Bibliotheksverband) and a trade
> association of German publishers (Börsenverein des Deutschen
> Buchhandels).
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_04_fosblogarchive.html#117104723940073184
>
> * The Kauffman Foundation launched the iBridge Network, an OA portal of
> licensable discoveries designed to promote tech transfer.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_01_28_fosblogarchive.html#117054344385968585
>
> * The US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) proposed
> raising its reproduction fees.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117258974043430064
>
> * SPARC Europe solicited nominations for the Second Award for
> Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications. (The nomination
> period opened and closed in February.)
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117131567574525107
>
> * BioMed Central announced the winners of its first open access
> research awards.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_04_fosblogarchive.html#117094916847669765
>
> * A group of writers released version 1.0 of their definition of "free
> cultural works".
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_11_fosblogarchive.html#117146584116376938
>
> * ARL published an Issue Brief on Wiley's acquisition of Blackwell.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117258817047524530
>
> * The OA Marxist Internet Archive reported that China might be
> attacking the site and forcing it to stop providing OA to Marxist texts
> in Chinese.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_04_fosblogarchive.html#117069272110063752
>
> * The Association of Public Television Stations and the Library of
> Congress launched the American Archive project to digitize and offer OA
> to American public TV programming.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2007_02_25_fosblogarchive.html#117259451437101175
>
> ----------
>
> Erratum
>
> In my "Twelve reminders about FRPAA" in the last issue I mistakenly
> said that the current term of copyright in the US is the author's life
> plus 50 years. In fact it is the author's life plus 70 years --as I
> well knew, since I criticized the extension to 70 years again and again
> during the time when the Supreme Court was reviewing its
> constitutionality. Apologies for the slip.
>
> ----------
>
> Coming later this month
>
> * Notable conferences in March
>
> Open Access: Vom Prinzip zur Umsetzung (sponsored by the Schweizerische
> Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften)
> http://www.assh.ch/dt/index.asp?
> seite=detailTermine.asp&pag=start&id=814&
> Bern, March 1, 2007
>
> Ohio Digital Commons for Education (ODCE) 2007 Conference
> http://www.oln.org/conferences/ODCE2007/ODCE2007.php
> Columbus, Ohio, March 4-6, 2007
>
> Emerging Libraries: How Knowledge Will Be Accessed, Discovered, and
> Disseminated in the Age of Digital Information (Rice University's 2007
> De Lange Conference) (OA is among the topics)
> http://www.delange.rice.edu/conferenceVI.cfm
> Houston, March 5-7, 2007.
>
> JISC Conference 2007 (OA is among the topics)
> http://www.jisc.ac.uk/conference2007
> Birmingham, March 13, 2007
>
> Building Institutional Repositories with DSpace (OA is among the topics)
> http://www.oa-rep.de/index.php?id=89
> Kassel, March 14-15, 2007
>
> Open Knowledge 1.0 (sponsored by the Open Knowledge Foundation) (OA is
> among the topics)
> http://www.okfn.org/okforums/okcon/
> London, March 17, 2007
>
> Open Access: the Sea Change in Scholarly Publishing (a forum with John
> Willinsky)
> http://www.library.ualberta.ca/oaforum/
> Edmonton, March 20, 2007
>
> American Chemical Society Spring 2007 Meeting (OA is among the topics)
> http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?
> DOC=meetings%5cchicago2007%5chome.html
> Chicago, March 25-29, 2007
> --Symposium on Communicating Chemistry, March 27-28
> http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2006/12/communicating-chemistry-at-
> acs.html
>
> * Other OA-related conferences
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/conf.htm
>
> ----------
>
> Housekeeping
>
> * I've added 15 new conferences to my conference page since the last
> issue. In the next few days I'll delete the second asterisk marking
> them and the new entries will blend into the rest of the collection.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/conf.htm
>
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