Administration "Big Data" Research and Development Program

These are the fact sheet and a press release at the OSTP site,

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/big_data_fact_sheet.pdf

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/big_data_press_release.pdf

The fact sheet has links to agency specific sites for more details.

Among the press coverage, see the New York Times article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/technology/new-us-research-will-aim-at-flood-of-digital-data.html?_r=1

E-Journal Preservation and Archiving

See Rick Anderson's recent post on the Scholarly Kitchen for some interesting commentary: http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2012/03/07/e-journal-preservation-and-archiving-whether-how-who-which-where-and-when/

Predatory Open Access Journals

Recent article from the Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Predatory-Online-Journals/131047/

Jeffrey Beal of the University of Colorado maintains a list of publishers considered predatory as well as publishers on the watch list: http://metadata.posterous.com/?tag=predatoryopenaccessjournals

THE NIH PUBLIC ACCESS POLICY IMPACT

Covers the NIH Public Access Policy and also some interesting facts PMC

• Over 2.4 million articles are now in PMC. In addition to the NIH‐funded papers deposited into PMC, publishers voluntarily deposit more than 100,000 papers per year.
• Every weekday, one half million users access the database, retrieving over 1 million articles.
• Based on internet addresses, an estimated 25% of users are from universities, 17% are from companies, and 40% from the general public

http://publicaccess.nih.gov/public_access_policy_implications_2012.pdf