The Digital Commons @ Kennesaw State and the Horace W. Sturgis Library arepleased to announce "Giving Undergraduate Research a Worldwide Voice:Institutional Repositories as Publishers," a free one-day conference oninstitutional repositories and their place in undergraduate education.Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2011Location: KSU Continuing EducationThe keynote speaker will be Nancy Hensel, Executive Officer for the Councilon Undergraduate Research.

Public library of Science (PLoS) is currently publishing seven peer reviewed scientific and medical journals on the open access model. The Open Access model charges researchers for publication of their accepted papers (in the case of PLos ~1300), but researchers retain copyright and

That means everyone, everywhere can read, redistribute and reuse your research without cost: colleagues, patients, policy makers, journalists, the next generation of researchers.

The final report of the Open Library Environment project is available for reading. ♥ this project with its focus on the behind the scenes... because if the behind the scenes (processing system/database/data) doesn't work very well, the public interface is not going to work very well. I am definitely keeping an eye on this project and I hope to be able to contribute in some way in the future.

... the code license is from MIT not GOOGLE btw.... http://code.google.com/p/gpeerreview/From the website:

Why? * Peer reviews give credibility to an author's work. * Journals and conferences can use this tool to indicate acceptance of a paper. * Researchers can also give credibility to each other by reviewing each others' works. * This enables researchers to publish first, and review later. * It meshes seamlessly with existing publication venues.

If you've not heard of the openlibrary.org initiative, the idea is "one web pagefor every book ever published."A pretty noble undertaking....Anyhow, news is that have now have a total of 13.4 million books,with about 18 million more records to go.Of course quantity and quality are not the same.

ok, this is totally snaked off of a listserv so that I can spend more time with it later:http://www.lib.utk.edu/newfoundpress/Newfound Press is a new digital imprint from the University of TennesseeUniversity Libraries. All its publications will be Open Access. From the site:Today’s scholarly publishing environment presents a strategic opportunity foracademic libraries to expand their role in the publications process.Universities are both creators and consumers in the information economy.