Scholarly Communication : Open Access : New Open Access Now. The December 1 issue of Open Access Now is now online. This issue features an editorial on the need for an unambiguous "open access" label, an interview with Les Grivell on searching and processing scientific literature, news on OA initiatives in Australia, and a profile of the Berlin Declaration. [Open Access News]  12:40:14 PM   [Feedback ]  

Libraries : Radical library conference presentations. The presentations from the conference, The radical library: taking up the challenge (London, November 13), are now online. [Open Access News]  12:39:54 PM   [Feedback ]  

Metadata : ERRoLs. OCLC has launched Extensible Repository Resource Locators (ERRoLs) for OAI Identifiers. ERRoLs provides cool URIs (roughly, permanent or persistent URLs) to metadata, content, or services in registered, OAI-compliant archives. For more detail, see Henk Ellermann's explanation and example. [Open Access News]  7:08:26 AM   [Feedback ]