Archive for March, 2007

MIT’s cancellation of SAE database - Intellectual Property Implications

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

“The MIT Libraries have canceled access to the Society of Automotive Engineers’ web-based database of technical papers, rejecting the SAE’s requirement that MIT accept the imposition of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology.
SAE’s DRM technology severely limits use of SAE papers and imposes unnecessary burdens on readers. With this technology, users must download a DRM […]

Nature Biotech recommends OA data

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

“Beginning this month, Nature Biotechnology is recommending that raw data from proteomics and molecular-interaction experiments be deposited in a public database before manuscript submission.”
See the full article posted by Peter Suber at:
Nature Biotech recommends OA data
Posted by Jay Bhatt: Drexel University

Defense Technical Information Center’s Open Access Initiative

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

DTIC launched its Open Archives Initiative (OAI) to provide broader access to information in its collection. OAI is an international effort focused on furthering the interoperability of digital libraries. DTIC’s Public STINET content is provided in an OAI-PMH 2.0 compliant format. OAI-PMH allows third party harvesters easy access to DTIC’s content in a variety of […]