Nick Sheppard, Google indexing and SEO, Repository News , April 22, 2009.  Tips for helping Google index an OA repository. PS:  Also see my 2005 hand-out on this topic, probably very much outdated.

The Canadian Health Services Research Foundation has adopted an OA mandate.  (Thanks to Stevan Harnad.)  Excerpt: Also see the CHSRF FAQ on the policy. Comments I like the policy's equal embrace of green and gold OA.

The World Digital Library was officially launched on April 21. See also our past posts on the World Digital Library.

The Oklahoma City University School of Law has launched an institutional repository.  (Thanks to Nancy Pontika.)

Drexel University has released a webcast of its meeting, For What It’s Worth: The Hidden Costs of Scholarly Communication (Philadelphia, April 16, 2009).

The Legal Workshop is a blog-based compendium of short, non-technical summaries of recently published law-review articles, written by the original authors.  (Thanks to the Wired Campus.) Comment .  It's a great idea, and many other fields, especially in the humanities and social sciences, should follow suit.  However, OA to brief summaries is no reason to slow down or give up on OA to full-texts.

Raf Aerts, Open-access publishing can survive recession, Nature , April 23, 2009.  A letter to the editor. Comments Aerts is right that the recession is no obstacle to OA archiving and that authors should be encouraged to seize the opportunity.  However, I wouldn't call green OA a "scheme...adopted by publishers".

Richard Jefferson, Catalyst, March 26, 2009. Video with text transcript. Interview with Richard Jefferson of CAMBIA. See also our past posts on Jefferson and his projects.

The conference blog from the French OA Archives Days, Journées d’étude sur les Archives Ouvertes (Paris, April 2-3, 2009), has many posts on the presentations and has just been updated to included audio and/or slides of the presentations themselves.

Wally Grotophorst, OA begins at home…, iNODE, April 21, 2009.

Victoria Henson-Apollonio, Kay Chapman, and Sebastian Derwisch, Some IP challenges in the developing world; and what is being done, Open and Shut ?  April 19, 2009.  Excerpt: PS:  Also see our past posts on CGIAR.