There were lot of very interesting things on the Web these last days on Open Access and Open Data. I would like to remind you that the very first Science 3.0 Blogging Contest starting on October 18 is dedicated to Open Access and will run parallel to the Open Access Week! I greatly invite you to take part, as a blogger, as a reader, as both! You will find below several links to make you feel even more eager than now October 18 comes.

• The Zen of Open Data by Chris McDowall on SciBlogs New Zealand

• Open access: the world is your consortium by Dorothea on Scientopia

• Blinded peer reviews – a thing of the past? by Peter Kraker on Science and the Web 2.0

• Public personal genomes; open-access, open-source, open-ended? More on Genomes Unzipped, by Eaglegenomics

• Cascading Peer-Review — The Future of Open Access? A great analyze by Phil Davis on The Scholarly Kitchen

• An open Open University course on openness A short and interesting posting, by Martin Weller on The Ed Techie

• Data sharing code of practice One of the current consultations launched by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), UK

• JISC OpenBibliography: CUL data release on Open Biblio (graphic) Projects

• Opening Research on Open Source by Carlo Daffara on Open Source Business Resource

Happy reading 🙂