UCLA Library gets Mellon grant for project to make rare books more accessible - August 13, 2008
The UCLA Library has received a $750,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to catalogue more than 55,000 rare books and make them more accessible to users. The project will involve two concurrent efforts focused on rare books in the Charles E. Young Research Library… Read More
Duke University Libraries receive grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation for Open Library Environment project - August 11, 2008
The Duke University Libraries have received a $475,700 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to design the next-generation, open-source library system that seeks to meet the changing and complex needs of 21st-century libraries and library users. The Open Library Environment (OLE)… Read More
BioMed Central journal brings out thematic series on Breastfeeding - August 11, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that the International Breastfeeding Journal recently published its first thematic series on Breastfeeding and feminism: Reproductive health, rights and justice. Edited by Dr Miriam H Labbok, Dr Paige Hall Smith and Emily C Taylor, the articles in the… Read More
Oxford Journals to deposit NIH-funded articles into PubMed Central - August 5, 2008
Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press (OUP), UK, has announced that they will deposit into PubMed Central (PMC) any articles published in any of their biomedical journals which are identified by the authors as being funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This… Read More
ICTP Science Dissemination Unit launches new book on OA - August 5, 2008
The Scientific Dissemination Unit (SDU) of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) recently released a free online book, Science Dissemination Using Open Access, a compendium of selected literature on Open Access (OA). Edited by E. Canessa and M. Zennaro, the book is an effort by… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert offers free online access to Breastfeeding Medicine - August 4, 2008
Medical publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., US, has announced complimentary online access to Breastfeeding Medicine in recognition of World Breastfeeding Week. The offer can be availed of till August 31, 2008 at www.liebertpub.com/bfm. A MEDLINE journal, Breastfeeding Medicine is the official publication… Read More
DINI multilingual develops German interface to offer information on OA policies - July 30, 2008
The German Initiative for Networked Information (DINI) has developed a German (and potentially multilingual) interface to the English SHERPA / RoMEO service to provide additional information on German publishers' open access (OA) policies. Together with the SHERPA / RoMEO team, DINI aims to build an international support structure for OA… Read More
Italy’s National Institute of Nuclear Physics signs Berlin Declaration on OA - July 29, 2008
National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy, has signed the Berlin Declaration on 'Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities' to help break down hurdles for accessing scientific knowledge. The declaration, launched in 2003, was created to sustain and encourage the free exchange of… Read More
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine moves to BioMed Central - July 25, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that the Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine (SJTREM) has moved to BioMed Central's open access publishing platform. SJTREM is the official journal of the Scandinavian Networking Group on Trauma and Emergency Management and is affiliated… Read More
OAD launches the ‘Bibliography of Open Access’ in MediaWiki format - July 23, 2008
The Open Access Directory (OAD) has announced the release of the Bibliography of Open Access, which is the work of OAD contributors. The bibliography is based on Charles Bailey's Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals, which was published in 2005… Read More
