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  1. The University of Kansas has adopted an open-access policy for scholarly articles authored by its faculty http://tinyurl.com/nlt3cu
  2. check out the latest posts on http://dangerouscitizens.co... --the blog on a CDRS digital monograph project
  3. Harvard Grad School of Education approves open-access policy...the fourth Harvard school to do so. http://tinyurl.com/lxuxnx
  4. Director of Harvard Office of Scholarly Communication has a new blog: http://blogs.law.harvard.ed...
  5. Statement by 10 university press directors supporting "dissemination of scholarly research as broadly as possible" http://tinyurl.com/pmmzsp
  6. Columbia Science & Technology Law Review (stlr.org) now open access and avail. in Academic Commons, CU's repository http://bit.ly/mUTxV
  7. Providers of open-source digital-content-management software DSpace and Fedora Commons joining to form DuraSpace: http://tinyurl.com/q7qcav
  8. Video, audio of Kenneth Crews, Director of Columbia U. Copyright Advisory Office, on protecting your scholarship http://tinyurl.com/qol63x
  9. "Why the Web-based Monograph?" http://dangerouscitizens.co...
  10. Video now up from "Know Your Rights: Who Really Owns Your Scholarly Works?" event: http://tinyurl.com/dfd3wa
  11. Pre-print by Columbia Biomed Informatics Prof. on inter-host reassortment patterns in #swineflu now in CU repository http://bit.ly/sYb7F
  12. Wash Post article on new UN World Digital Library: free access to primary source materials from around the world http://tinyurl.com/cymq7v
  13. Clear synopsis of the state of open access and scholarly journal pricing in today's economy http://tinyurl.com/dn6l6g
  14. U-M Press restructuring to focus on digital monographs http://bit.ly/jK8uS
  15. A field guide to misunderstandings about open access-- http://bit.ly/7LFAB
  16. Video now up from "Scholarship in the Digital Age" event w. Christine Borgman - http://bit.ly/w8Wyw
  17. Check out "In Defense of Open Access," by Gabe Schubiner, a leader of student group Free Culture @ Columbia http://bit.ly/R14vJ
  18. publishers panic about moving from this revenue model.
  19. the vast majority of revenue that supports journals comes from institutional library subscriptions
  20. or that new journals can't be born into an open access model