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I’m delighted to congratulate the winners of the CRIG (Common Repositories Interoperability Group) competition at OR08. This was an innovative piece of funding – instead of giving a small grant to a group to do a small piece of work … Continue reading →

It is encouraging to see the increasing use of “Open Data” and the suggestion that we should use CKAN (OKF): Fiona Bradley, A database of data, Semantic Library, April 16, 2008.  (via Peter Suber) One of the sites recommended by … Continue reading →

The Wellcome Trust has led the revolution towards making research articles both free (priceFree) and Open/libre (permissionFree). Here is Robert Kiley on Stevan Harnad’s blog (link): At the Wellcome Trust we also believe that “fair use is not enough” if … Continue reading →

Peter Suber alerts us to the MRC’s new mandate on the publication of their funded research Revision to OA mandate at MRC (read it). The key paragraph is simple: [MRC] If an open access fee has been paid MRC requires … Continue reading →

I didn’t have time to blog during UKSG so here are a few random bits. I had the general feeling of a community knowing that inevitable unspecified change was going to happen but no sense that they could do anything … Continue reading →

Rich Apodaca posted the definitive version of the ACS position on the NIH mandate: ACS and the NIH Public Access Policy: Clarification at Last (permalink) An alert Depth-First reader pointed me to the new ACS policy for authors receiving NIH … Continue reading →

From Rufus Pollock: Open Data Going Mainstream? RP: Bret Taylor’s recent post entitled “We Need a Wikipedia for Data” has been garnering a lot of attention around the blogosphere. [PMR – there are zillions of useful comments] While his suggestions … Continue reading →

In my last post I had the presumption to lecture my readership on what “green” and “gold” access mean. Hubris strikes – I got it wrong. I comment on the comments and then continue with why I think “green” is … Continue reading →

As today is part of “Open Access Week” (April 7 was when the NIH mandate took effect), I’m trying to write a post a day on the topic… UPDATE — my use of Green and Gold is not correct — … Continue reading →