The End of Project Confernece of the Project PEER – Publishing and the Ecology of European Research http://www.peerproject.eu/ is going to take place on 29 May in Brussels.

PEER, supported by the EC eContentplus programme, has been investigating the effects of the large-scale, systematic depositing of authors’ final peer-reviewed manuscripts (so called Green Open Access or stage-two research output). The project is a collaboration between publishers, repositories, and the research community including funding bodies, which has run since September 2008 and will conclude with this conference at which the final results will be presented and discussed.

As part of ...

The Call for Papers for the sixth and first time abroad Open-Access-Tage 2012 (Open-Access-Days 2012) has been published. Only one session has been open for submitted presentations the previous years, but this years conference in Vienna will be completely based on proposals. Until May 24th is time to submit abstracts to the program committee. The main language of the conference will be German, but English presentations are welcome.

The Call for Papers name the following themes as focus of the conference: e-Infrastructures for Open Access, Opportunities and Challenges in Data Sharing, <span ...

After last week’s announcement to publish VIAF as open linked data under the license ODC-BY new OCLC news are indicating a new course of the organization: The same step is under discussion for Worldcat, the union catalogue should also fall under the license ODC-BY. Furthermore the engagement of Richard Wallis has been announced, Wallis new roll in the OCLC is the “Technology Evangelist”.

Peter Murray reports on Disruptive Library Technology Jester, that the publication of Worldcat data under the license ODC-BY has been discussed on the OCLC Global Council Meeting. It hasn’t been an announcement yet, but the Jim Michalko (Vice President of OCLC)made the recommendation for the OCLC leadership for the OCLC organs Global Council ...

VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) has transitioned to become an OCLC service. VIAF is a project that virtually combines multiple name authority files into a single name authority service. The transition from an interim, shared-governance arrangement to OCLC has been made to assure that VIAF will be well-positioned to scale efficiently as a long-term, cooperative activity.

OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) will continue to make VIAF openly accessible and will also work to incorporate VIAF into various OCLC services. The transition guarantees that http://viaf.org ...