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During the CBD Conference of the Parties, the Friends of the Conservation Commons are organizing a side event on Removing Barriers and Encouraging Participation in Data Sharing. This will take place on Tuesday 26 October, at 16:30, in Room 236 of Building 2 (on the third floor).

while a number of United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) publications are available in the Internet Archive site, the World Atlases are now available online, as outstanding copyright issues have been resolved.

a new paper by MICHAEL C. CALVER AND J. STUART BRADLEY published in the volume 24 issue 3 of the Conservation Biology comparing the number of citations of open access and non-open access papers in six journals and four books published since 2000 to test whether open access increases number of citations overall and increases [...]

  Creative Commons is investing up to $100,000 to empower individuals and communities deeply rooted in the principles of openness and sharing. With the Catalyst Grants program, Creative Commons will seed activities around the globe that support our mission. Our goal is to scale our community’s efforts and support them in becoming self-sustainable. Through a [...]

The Google Book Settlement is probably the copyright story of the year — it’s complex, contentious, involves big players and big subjects — the future of books, perhaps good and evil — resulting in a vast amount of advocacy, punditry and academic analysis.

Why would university faculty choose to place their scholarship on electronic archives for a world-wide audience? Many US universities have adopted such mandates for public access to faculty research, perhaps most notably Harvard [1], MIT, and the University of Kansas [2]. These policies (and many more like them in various stages of consideration on campuses [...]

In order to stimulate the process of sharing dataset-level metadata, the GBIF Secretariat is offering a limited number of small grants of up to € 5,000 to GBIF Participants to enable them to build and/or connect their existing metadata catalogues to the GBIF network.

In order to help achieve targets and address specific issues and/or objectives as outlined in the GBIF Work Programme 2009-2010, GBIF may commission time-bound and subject-specific Task Groups. The GBIF Secretariat invites proposals from organisations/institutions, research groups and individuals working in the area of biodiversity informatics, bioinformatics, ecoinformatics and/or related fields of scientific data management [...]

Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy (SSPP) <http://ejournal.nbii.org> is a peer-reviewed, open access, online, academic publication for the cross-disciplinary study and discussion of sustainability.  In each article, authors address the social, economic, political, and environmental interactions that provide solutions to sustainability problems.  Through the journal’s Web-based professional platform, SSPP widely disseminates useful information and perspectives and, [...]