http://technology.foundnews.com Technology News and Information Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:03:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Three of Germany's national research institutions have signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge: Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und —prüfung (BAM, or Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing) Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR, or Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources) Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB, or National Metrology Institute of Germany) ... http://technology.foundnews.com/2007/01/16/three-more-german-institutions-sign-the-berlin-declaration/ Kenneth D. Crews and Gerard van Westrienen, Copyright, Publishing, and Scholarship, The "Zwolle Group" Initiative for the Advancement of Higher Education, D-Lib Magazine, January / February 2007.  Excerpt: The relationship of copyright law to the creation and publication of scholarly works is a critical concern for the advancement of ... http://technology.foundnews.com/2007/01/16/overview-of-the-zwolle-principles/ I'm on the road with intermittent opportunities to blog.  I'll start catching up on recent news tomorrow or the next day. source: On the road http://technology.foundnews.com/2007/01/16/on-the-road/ Elena Giglia, Open Access e ricerca in area biomedica : un'introduzione, Università degli studi di Torino, Servizio Informazioni Biomediche, 2007.  Self-archived, January 15, 2007.  In Italian but with this English-language abstract:  Introductory bibliography to Open Access in the biomedical field, as made out for the congress Institutional archives for ... http://technology.foundnews.com/2007/01/16/bibliography-of-oa-in-biomedicine/ Stevan Harnad, EURAB's Proposed OA Mandate: Strongest of the 20 Adopted and 5 Proposed So Far, Open Access Archivangelism, January 15, 2007.  Excerpt: The ROARMAP Registry of University and Funder Self-Archiving Mandates keeps growing: 56 policies, 20 adopted mandates, and 5 proposed mandates so far, worldwide. But the ... http://technology.foundnews.com/2007/01/16/more-on-the-oa-mandate-proposal-from-eurab/ Arthur Sale, The Patchwork Mandate, D-Lib Magazine, January/February 2007.  This article is written mainly for repository managers who are at a loss as to what policies they (or their universities or research institutions) ought to deploy in order to ensure that most, if not all, of the ... http://technology.foundnews.com/2007/01/16/mandating-oa-department-by-department/ Willem got a brother yesterday. Mother is amazing. Father is amazed. source: more sometime but http://technology.foundnews.com/2007/01/16/more-sometime-but/ Find a spot where a building blocks out the Sun, but allows you a clear view of the sky just to the east, far enough to that side to stay visible up to a half hour past sunset. That stretched out cloud pointing off into the sky is Comet ... http://technology.foundnews.com/2007/01/15/the-brilliant-comet-mcnaught/ This is getting ridiculous. On December 27 I came down with the full-blown, wish-I-was-dead version of the dreaded norovirus that’s terrorizing Rochester—it knocked me out completely for a day, but took five days to recover completely from. Last Monday I came down with a lower-GI-only-version that took me out for ... http://technology.foundnews.com/2007/01/14/sick-sick-sick-of-being-sick/ The January 2007 issue of Nucleic Acids Research is devoted to databases, mostly OA databases.  (Thanks to bbgm.)  From Alex Batemen's editorial introduction to the issue: The 2007 Database Issue of Nucleic Acids Research is the fourteenth in a series dedicated to databases in the field of molecular biology. These databases ... http://technology.foundnews.com/2007/01/14/advice-for-oa-database-maintainers/