2007 Highlights
Heather Ford has a nice wrap up of 2007 open content highlights. What makes your list that she hasn’t mentioned?
I Quit =)
Well, for a long time I have run my own blogging software – ever since Brian Lamb taught me about blogging!. But over the holiday I gave up, and am now hosting my blog with the fine folks at wordpress.com. Running the software, backing it up, migrating to new versions, applying security patches, etc., was … Read more
A Merry Christmas for Open Access!
From http://www.sciencecodex.com/public_access_mandate_made_law: President Bush has signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2007 (H.R. 2764), which includes a provision directing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide the public with open online access to findings from its funded research. This is the first time the U.S. government has mandated public access to research … Read more