Peter Murray-Rust, CLARION - our chemical data repository project, A Scientist and the Web, April 24, 2009. Update. See also the project blog.

The March issue of the OA Economic Analysis and Policy is devoted to the Economics of OA Publishing.  (Thanks to the RePEc Blog.)  Here are the articles: Christian Zimmermann, Introduction John Willinsky, The Stratified Economics of Open Access John P. Conley and Myrna Wooders, But what have you done for me lately?

Paul Davey, Resources for researchers now on UK PubMed Central website, UK PubMed Central Blog, April 23, 2009.

SCOAP3 receives more Expressions of Interest from U.S. University Libraries, an announcement from the CERN SCOAP3 project, April 24, 2009.

Jen Booth, Libraries around the world support Open Access to critical research from developing countries, Bioline News Blog, April 22, 2009.

The University of Toronto and the Internet Archive (IA) are digitizing Ontario legislation from the colonial period to 2000, for OA through the IA.

Alexandros Koulouris, et al., Evaluating the NTUA institutional repository, presented at 11th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (Aberdeen, June 4-7, 2008); self-archived April 23, 2009.

Ulrich Herb, Open Access revisited: Wissenschaftsaltruismus oder alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen?, Kakanien Revisited, March 2009.

Charles Nesson of Harvard Law School has proposed that the Google book settlement include funding for an Open Access Trust.  Hal Abelson, Harry Lewis, and Lewis Hyde have joined the proposal.  Excerpt: Comments This is an excellent idea.  It needn't rest solely on the argument that orphaned works are part of the public domain.

Leticia Ortí, et al., A Kernel for Open Source Drug Discovery in Tropical Diseases, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, April 21, 2009. (Thanks to John Wilbanks.) Author summary: The kernel is available under the Science Commons Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data. See also Leticia Ortí, et al., A kernel for the Tropical Disease Initiative, Nature Biotechnology, April 2009.

The Communia Workshop on Accessing, Using, Reusing Public Sector Content and Data (London, March 26-27, 2009) has released this statement on OA to public sector information: See also Jonathan Gray's notes on the workshop.