Tíscar Lara, El papel de la Universidad en la construcción de su identidad digital, Revista de Universidad y Sociedad del Conocimiento , 6, 1 (2009).

Lisa J. Rogers, Simon Hodson, and Roddy MacLeod, Transforming Current Awareness through RSS:  How two projects (ticTOCs and Gold Dust) are using RSS to improve the information landscape for the 21st century researcher, a presentation at the European Library Automation Group Conference (ELAG 09), University Library in Bratislava, April 22-24, 2009.

We've blogged the fact that President Obama named OA supporters Harold Varmus and Eric Lander to co-chair the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), with John Holdren. Today President Obama named all 20 members of PCAST.  (Thanks to the Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog.) PS:  I haven't had time to check the OA records of the 17 new names.

The Biosciences Federation has released a statement (April 14, 2009) in support of last month's report from Universities UK and the Research Information Network on Paying for open access publication charges.  In particular, it supports the recommendations that universities launch funds to pay publication fees and that funding agencies clarify when they will pay publication fees. PS:

Bioalma Announces Full-Text Search Capabilities From Open Access Journals Through novo|seek, press release, April 27, 2009. See also our past post on novo|seek.

The presentations from the 2009 UKSG Conference (Torquay, March 30 - April 1, 2009) are now online.

Abhishek Tiwari, Citation Trend Line For PLoS Journals, Fisheye Perspective, April 25, 2009.

Higher Ed Tag Lines is a five year old database newly converted to OA by its compiler, the Richard Harrison Bailey Agency.  Thanks to Don Troop in the Chronicle of Higher Education , who offers this background: Comment .  This isn't the human genome project.

New on Revues.org: Agone (OA after 2 year delay) Revue de recherche en civilisation américaine (OA) Études de communication (OA after 2 year delay) Bibliographie de l'histoire de France

Barbara Kirsop, Reassuring Open Access-waverers, EPT , April 27, 2009.

If you recall, last week the University of Maryland University Senate voted down a mixed green/gold OA policy.  Here's an editorial from the UMaryland student paper in response:  Free at last, free at last, Diamondback Online , April 27, 2009.  Excerpt: Comment. The editorial is right to criticize the Senate vote and point out that OA articles are cited more often than non-OA articles.