Jane Kaye and four co-authors, Data sharing in genomics — re-shaping scientific practice, Nature Reviews Genetics , May 2009.  (Thanks to Garrett Eastman.)

Enrico Francesconi and Ginevra Peruginelli, The Florentine Debate on Free Access to Law, VoxPopuLII , April 9, 2009.  (Thanks to Joe Hodnicki.)  A report on Law via the Internet: Free Access, Quality of Information, Effectiveness of Rights (Florence, October 30-31, 2008).

John Robertson, Repository software update, John’s JISCCETIS blog , April 17, 2009.  (Thanks to Charles Bailey.)  A review of recent news from Fedora, DuraSpace, DSpace, EPrints, and the new Microsoft tools.

Stevan Harnad, Harvard's Stuart Shieber on Open Access at CalTech and Berkeley, Open Access Archivangelism , April 17, 2009.

arXiview is a new iPhone app from Dave Bacon, for searching and browsing arXiv.  From the website: Browsing arXiv categories by date. Keep up to date not just on the latest days posting, but postings from the last week or any date you wish. The first iPhone arxiv browser to offer full date browsing. Search the arXiv by author, title, full text, with and without restrictions to specific categories of the arXiv.

The Open Source Paleontologist has posted a list of OA journals in paleontology. Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week has also posted a related list of Open Access Bio and Paleo. Comment. See also the search results in the Directory of Open Access Journals.

Tolerantia: Beiträge für Toleranz- & Intoleranzforschung is a new peer-reviewed OA journal using open review.

Jim Till, Are prominent publishers experimenting with OA?, Be openly accessible or be obscure, April 16, 2009. Comment. I seem to be able to access the free full text to the complete backfile of Cancer Cell, as well as the current issue.

One outcome of last month's International Repositories Workshop (Amsterdam, March 16-17, 2009) is the International Repositories Infrastructure wiki.  (Thanks to Charles Bailey.)

Stuart M. Shieber, The Harvard Initiatives for Open Access to the Scholarly Literature, presentation at California Institute of Technology, March 26, 2009; video (Microsoft Silverlight format), 90 minutes. See also notes by Lindsay Cleary.

Nicole Harris, Where is the I in Open Content?, JISC Access Management Team, April 14, 2009. Compares OA and OER on six axes: author identifiers, standards, preservation, added value, platform, and business model.