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I just read this happened earlier this month (more at the BioMed Central Blog ) via Peter Suber's Open Access News . I must admit I am rather surprised by this turn of events.

The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) - which publishes research video-articles - is now indexed by PubMed, as reported in the JoVE blog . Related: Visualize This! Interview with Moshe Pritsker , co-founder and editor-in-chief of JoVE [2008 Feb] Troy, T., Arabzadeh, A., Enikanolaiye, A., Lariviere, N., Turksen, K. (2008). Immunohistochemistry on Paraffin Sections of Mouse Epidermis Using Fluorescent Antibodies. Journal of Visualized Experiments DOI: 10.3791/552 . A JoVE video article from University of Ottawa and Ottawa Health Research Institute (I work in the Ottawa area).

The Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2008 included Publishing and Research Tools for Academics that allows for archival annotation and structuring of Microsoft software produced documents, as well as supporting PubMed Central format . Additional sessions of interest: The Cyberspace Connection – Impact on Individuals, Society, and Research New Developments in Scholarly Communication Reflections on Directions in Artificial Intelligence What Will Be the Impact of Cloud Services on Science? Spotlights on Interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Research AI, Sensing, and Optimized Information Gathering: Trends and Directions Ontological Myths: Reducing the Confusion Social Networking and Semantics Toward Situated Interaction Statistical Machine Translation Research at Microsoft Research Interactive Machine Learning: Challenges, Methods, and Applications Information Extraction from Documents and Queries Contexts in Computer Science Education The Future of Research Clouds REAssess: Resou...

Here are a number of fairly recent Open Access (OA) references that I have collected that need a home. They are from a number of different perspectives, certainly beyond the usual science, technology, medicine (STM) focus of most of my OA postings, and include Middle East Studies, law publishing, OA activities in China and South Asia, and even Bakhtinian dialogism ! I hope they are useful: Byrne, Alex. 2007. Open Access and development: physician, heal thyself! 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council , Durban, South Africa, 19-23 August 2007. Harper, Georgia K. 2008. NIH Open Access Mandate: A Careful Look at Two Options for Retaining Authors’ Rights – "Do Nothing" and ΄Do it Early and Efficiently‘ . Newsletter of the Center for Intellectual Property , Spring 2008. Kennan, Mary Anne & Kautz, Karlheinz. 2007. Scholarly publishing and Open Access: searching for understanding of an emerging IS phenomenon . The 15th European Conference on Information Systems, University of...

A collection of excellent Open Access papers (somewhat Germany/EU-oriented, but with some good international and canonical content) has just been published: Open access: opportunities and challenges: - A handbook (PDF). 2008. The European Commission and the German Commission for UNESCO, translated from the original German edition published by the German Commission for UNESCO. Its table of contents: Chapter 1: Definition and Origin of Open Access The Concept of Open Access. Norbert Lossau Open Access – A Historical Survey. Peter Schirmbacher Chapter 2: An Introduction to Three Publication Models The Edoc-Server at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: An Example of an Open Access Repository. Susanne Dobratz The New Journal of Physics as an Example of Open Access Journals. Eberhard Bodenschatz The Example of a Hybrid Model: Springer Open Choice. Jan Velterop Chapter 3: Implementing Open Access Models Financing Open Access Models. Stefan Gradmann Open Access and (German) Copyright. Karl-N...

There is a special issue (Winter 2008) of Journal of Electronic Publishing entitled "Special Issue on Communications, Scholarly Communications and the Advanced Research Infrastructure". It examines from a number of different perspectives and interests the intersection of cyberinfrastructure, scholarship and scholarly communication and how they are impacting -- and will be impacting -- scholarly activities. Overview: Editor's Note . Judith Axler Turner Cyberscholarship: High Performance Computing Meets Digital Libraries . William Y. Arms . When Authorship Isn't Enough: Lessons from CERN on the Implications of Formal and Informal Credit Attribution Mechanisms in Collaborative Research . Jeremy Birnholtz The Virtual Observatory Meets the Library . G. Sayeed Choudhury Triple Helix: Cyberinfrastructure, Scholarly Communication, and Trust . Amy Friedlander Talk About Talking About New Models of Scholarly Communication . Karla L. Hahn Can Universities Dream of Electric She...

Echoing Peter Suber's blog entry on this, here are the articles from the January 2008 issue of Journal of Library and Information Technology : Open Access to Scientific Knowledge Open Access for Indian Scholarship Open Access to Electronic Theses and Dissertations India, Open Access, the Law of Karma and the Golden Rule Open Access to Publicly Funded Research Information: the race is on Open Access and Quality Open Access and Open J-Gate Global Access to Indian Research: Indian STM Journals Online Open Access: Major Issues and Global Initiatives

Sandy Payette has plans to expand Fedora to support open access publishing, eScience and eScholarship. With a recent $4.9M grant from the Moore foundation, it looks like she might have the opportunity to do this...

Quote Prospect An earlier posting ( Royal Society of Chemistry Semantic Publishing ) of mine has been quoted by the RSC on their Project Prospect ...

Royal Society of Chemistry Semantic Publishing Project Prospect is an exciting effort by the RSC where "... journal papers will be enhanced so that their data can be read, indexed and intelligently searched by machine, a first step towards the "semantic web" ." As someone working in the area of text retrieval and semantic web, this is a very exciting prospect. RSC's Project Prospect is reminiscent of Nature's Open Text Mining Interface (OTMI) effort -- in which I am also participating -- but in the case of Project Prospect, more semantic content will be exposed.