Databib

Databib, http://databib.org, is a tool for helping people to identify and locate online repositories of research data. Over 200 data repositories have been cataloged in Databib, with more being added every week. Users and bibliographers create and curate records that describe data repositories that users can browse and search.

Is the Academic Publishing Industry on the Verge of Disruption?

U.S. News and World Report covers the open access debate: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/07/23/is-the-academic-publishing-industry-on-the-verge-of-disruption

UCSF Implements Policy to Make Research Papers Freely Accessible to Public

Health Sciences Campus Becomes Largest in Nation to Adopt Open-access Policy

The UCSF Academic Senate has voted to make electronic versions of current and future scientific articles freely available to the public, helping to reverse decades of practice on the part of medical and scientific journal publishers to restrict access to research results.


Full press release:
http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2012/05/12056/ucsf-implements-policy-make-research-papers-freely-accessible-public

Full text of policy and supporting documents
http://senate.ucsf.edu/2011-2012/j-lib-openaccess.html

Require free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research

There is a petition to the Obama Administration to require free access to scientific journal article arising from taxpayer-funded research.  This expands greatly on the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy.  It is 300 signatures short of its 25,000 goal.

See the petition here.

World Bank Live Event Report: Open Access Policy and Development

The World Bank hosted an event called What the World Bank’s Open Access Policy Means for Development.  Participants included Peter Suber from Harvard University, Michael Carroll from American University (Mike is on the Board of Directors at Creative Commons), and Cyril Muller and Adam Wagstaff from the World Bank. The discussion was timely given the Bank’s recently-announced Open Access Policy and Open Knowledge Repository.   See more...http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/32839 

Georgia State University Decision on Fair Use

Read summary and recap here: http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/gsu_issuebrief_15may12.pdf

Open Access Spreads to Miami University

http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/05162012/open-access-spreads-miami-university