Steve Hitchcock has created two extremely useful w …. Steve Hitchcock has created two extremely useful web pages amounting to a comprehensive and up-to-date directory of OAI-compliant, open-access eprint archives. The Core metalist of open access eprint archives lists the major lists of archives by type. The Metalist of open access eprint archives is the same list with helpful annotations. The first will be updated more regularly than the second. Having a definitive metalist or directory will help users find archives and help activists measure the progress of the movement. Thank you, Steve! [FOS News]

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The April issue of Learned Publishing is now onlin …. The April issue of Learned Publishing is now online. Here are the FOS-related articles. Only the table of contents and abstracts are freely accessible.

• Colin Steele, Phoenix rising: new models for the research monograph?

• Mark S. Frankel, Seizing the moment: scientists' authorship rights in the digital age
• Heather Dalterio Joseph, BioOne: building a sustainable alternative publishing model for non-profit publishers
• Alan Turner; Pippa Steele, Archiving – the full-text solution: an innovative way to electronic archiving
• Pippa Smart, E-journals: developing country access survey
• David J. Powell, Voluntary deposit of electronic publications: a learning experience

[FOS News]

between the discussion on air-l and this, e-publishing is getting some coverage this week

Blogs Rule on Lawrence.com (Go Jayhawks!).

Blogs Are No. 1! Blogs Are No. 1!

“The most-read content at Lawrence.com? Believe it or not, it's currently the city site's weblogs, according to general manager Rob Curley. Curley & Co. have crafted Lawrence.com into an edgy site with wide appeal to a younger audience (Lawrence is home to the University of Kansas), and the site's blogs are promoted heavily and displayed prominently on the home page. See, weblogs do hold some serious potential for media companies.  (Lawrence.com is one of several sites produced by Curley's Web team. LJWorld.com is the main news site.)” [ E-Media Tidbits, via  MediaSavvy]

Lawrence.com is a great a way to keep up with the rockin' town that is home to my alma mater (and the soon to be NCAA basketball champions!), and the LJWorld's endeavors are consistently awarded high praise on the national level. Now all they need is a few RSS feeds to maintain their “head of the pack” status!

Actually, it would be pretty cool if they'd let you register and customize the local feeds you want to read online, including ones that will eventually come directly from the University, KJHK, the Bottleneck, etc. This type of aggregation service is a bountiful opportunity just waiting for some enterprising BigPub to notice it! Just think of the dedicated, daily eyeballs Lawrence.com/LJWorld would get!

P.S. Carolina – you can't have him!

[The Shifted Librarian]

i'm not much of a basketball fan, but lawrence is a great town.

More spooky .gov stuff. Derek Murphy is one of 2 other bloggers who have also seen a hit from another weird .gov:

http://sseop101.eop.gov/

“eop”? Anyone?

[www.gulker.com - words and pictures from Silicon Valley]

wierd, is it time to do a foi request. or perhaps ask your representative, the best bet is that it is executive office of the president (eop) which is where ollie north worked during contragate, it has a wide variety of functions in support of the president's office.