The Field Museum Library has joined Flickr Commons. See also our past posts on Flickr Commons.

Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies is a peer-reviewed OA journal published by the Kent State University Department of English and hosted by Scholarly Exchange. Authors retain copyright and the journal is published under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license.

Methodist Review: A Journal of Wesleyan and Methodist Studies is a new peer-reviewed OA journal sponsored by a group of theology schools and hosted by the Emory University Libraries. (Thanks to the Dallas Morning News.) The inaugural issue is dated 2009. From the inaugural editorial: Authors retain copyright and articles are published under a Creative Commons license.

Clifton B. Parker, Steal this archive: Image curator warns of public domain loss, urges greater access, Dateline UC Davis, April 17, 2009. See also comments by Jonathan Eisen, who gives Prelinger his "Open Access Pioneer Award".

Here's a mother of a child with a sternal cleft, "looking for scientific information and support to make an informed decision about the surgical intervention", and documenting her efforts online.  After trying several other routes to answers, her most promising leads have come from OA journals.

Visual research objects of art and design in Open Access repositories, OpenAccess.se, April 24, 2009.

Stevan Harnad, Heidelberg Humanities Hocus Pocus, Open Access Archivangelism , May 4, 2009.  Excerpt: Comment .  Also see our past posts on the Heidelberg Appeal.  I should add that I've been tagging much more Heidelberg news and comment for OATP than I've been blogging here at OAN.

Cameron Neylon, Scientists lead the push for open data sharing, Research Information, April/May 2009.

More OA resources on H1N1 ("swine") flu: Dean Giustini, Swine Flu in Canada - Information Sources, Open Medicine Blog, April 27, 2009. CABI, Swine flu: free access to world-renowned public health database, press release, May 1, 2009. William Jackson, Agencies tap online channels to spread the word on swine flu outbreak, Government Computer News, May 4, 2009.

Bob Grant, Merck published fake journal, The Scientist, April 30, 2009. (Free registration required, or try BugMeNot.) Comment. Remember this anecdote the next time someone raises the common myth that OA journals are lower quality or that OA is about bypassing quality control. Closed access does not guarantee high quality, even from the most prominent publishers.

Pfizer supports open access publishing for researchers in low-income countries, a press release from BioMed Central, May 5, 2009.  Excerpt: Comments The pharma industry needs access to peer-reviewed biomedical research and (like universities) complains about skyrocketing TA journal prices.