NPG launches an online only open access journal - Cell Death & Disease

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) along with the Associazione Differenziamento e Morte Cellulare is publishing an open access online journal called Cell Death & Disease in January 2010

The journal aims at exploring the area of cell death from a translational medicine perspective. It will be a peer-reviewed author-pays online journal that will publish full-length papers, reviews and commentaries describing original research in the field of translational cell death.
The scientific and medical information publisher said that the upcoming journal has started accepting submissions. This journal marks the first launch of several open access journals NPG is planning to introduce within its academic and society journal program in 2010

Live webcast from 1st OA conference at Lund

You can watch the various speakers at this conference live!

Data sharing - Nature News Special on need for OA to data

Most researchers agree that open access to data is the scientific ideal, so what is stopping it happening? Bryn Nelson investigates why many researchers choose not to share.

Google Book Settlement - summary of what it is and implications

A very clear statement from EBLIDA on what the Google Book Settlement allows and issues for European users and libraries

viXra.org: An Alternative Archive Of e-Prints In Science And Mathematics

A physicist in the UK has set up a new website for sharing preprints following criticisms about the way that the popular arXiv.org preprint server is moderated. Called viXra.org, which is the reverse of arXiv, the rival server — unlike arXiv — places no restrictions on the sorts of papers that can be posted. "This is an experiment to find out what kind of stuff is not managing to get into the arXiv, as well as being a serious archive for people to put their research in," says Philip Gibbs, an independent physicist based in the UK and creator of viXra

See also http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/39845

The Irish Health Service Executive (HSE) has recently launched their repository (LENUS) running on Open Repository

The Irish Health Service Executive (HSE) has recently launched their repository (LENUS) running on Open Repository, BioMed Central's hosted repository service. A case study is now available that explores the journey HSE took when setting up their
repository. Deciding how to build and host a repository and who to partner with can be a major challenge for organizations and this new case study aims to assist in this process by sharing the experiences of HSE.

Irish Open Access model for research a world-leader

Open Access leads the way in promoting academic research
From the Irish Times, 2009-08-07