If you recall, last December the Library of Congress asked Ed Summers to take down his OA Library of Congress Subject Headings linked data service.  At the time, Summers thought that the LOC might be considering offering a similar service of its own in the future. The LOC has launched its own service; it's OA and seems to be a real step forward.

See these two wrap-ups of activities from Open Access Anthropology Day (May 1, 2009): Happy Open Access Anthropology Day Updates Open Access Anthropology Day See also this list of OA anthropology journals, released on the same day. See also our past post on Open Access Anthropology Day.

Two items on Vivek Kundra, Obama's new federal Chief Information Officer, and his approach to access to public sector information (thanks to ResourceShelf): Joab Jackson, Kundra talks Data.gov, Government Computer News, April 29, 2009. Joab Jackson, Remixing government data, Government Computer News, April 30, 2009.

Google Faces Antitrust Investigation for Agreement to Digitize Millions of Books Online, Democracy Now!, April 30, 2009. A 25-minute video with text transcript.

See this recent message from DynaMed (thanks to ResourceShelf):

Zach Beauvais, What we’ve been working on…, Zach Beauvais, April 30, 2009. See also our past post on Talis Connected Commons.

Rachel Proudfoot, et al., IncReASe (Increasing Repository Content through Automation and Services), JISC Final Report, May 1, 2009.

Hepatitis Outbreaks National Organization for Reform (HONOReform) and the New York State Higher Education Initiative (NYSHEI) have joined the Alliance for Taxpayer Access.

Ben Brumfield has written software, FromThePage, to coordinate the work of online volunteers in transcribing and digitizing handwritten manuscripts.  Now he wants to release the code as open source, but only under a license that would require users to make the resulting transcriptions OA.

I just mailed the May issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter .  This issue takes a close look at open access tracking project (OATP), a collaborative tagging effort to capture new OA developments comprehensively and in real time.  The round-up section briefly notes 151 OA developments from April.

The Open Access Directory (OAD) has opened a set of lists on the Open access tracking project (OATP) for community editing.  OATP is the collaborative tagging project I launched in beta about two weeks ago.  The new OAD page will function as the project home page. The new home page supports user-maintained lists of project links (including feeds), project tags, project mashups, and (shortly) a project FAQ.