Nathan Yergler, Open Access and Linked Data, yergler.net, April 20, 2009.

York books scanned, digitized at Internet Archive, YUL News, April 20, 2009.

Toby Green, We Need Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tables, OECD Publishing White Paper , April 20, 2009.  A proposal for citing datasets.  Green argues that improving citations will improve access, but generally leaves access issues for others.

Matthias Spielkamp and Florian Cramer, Die Autoren werden gestärkt! Frankfurther Rundschau , April 21, 2009.  Another response to the objections and misunderstandings of the anti-OA Heidelberg Appeal.  Read it in German or Google's English. PS:  Also see our past posts on the Heidelberg Appeal.

David Shotton, Semantic publishing: the coming revolution in scientific journal publishing, Learned Publishing, April 2009; see also this self-archived version. (Thanks to Gerry McKiernan.) See also our past posts on David Shotton.

The ACRL has released its 2009 Legislative Agenda.

Kathleen Diga, University women struggle for knowledge access in Africa, genderIT.org, April 9, 2009.

Les manuscrits de Madame Bovary is a recently-launched OA archive of documents relating to the novel by Gustave Flaubert.

Dominique Cottart, Politiques européennes d’abonnement et de souscription aux périodiques électroniques (les) : du financement à l’accès : problématiques, réalités, perspectives, thesis at the École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques, January 2009.

N. Mukunda, Journals, Open Access, Copyright, Repositories:  Some Viewpoints from an Academy, the keynote address at the 2009 meeting of India's National Aerospace Laboratories (Bangalore,  March 26, 2009).  Mukunda is the Editor of Publications at the Indian Academy of Sciences.  (Thanks to Subbiah Arunachalam.)

Chuck Henry, A New European Initiative for Open Access, CLIR Issues , March/April 2009.