Walt Warnick and David Wojick, The Knowledge Investment Curve, OSTIblog, August 19, 2009.

Daniel Cressey, French library denies ‘Google seduction’ claims, The Great Beyond, August 19, 2009.

The National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences has adopted an OA mandate. According to ROARMAP, the policy is the first mandate in China. (Thanks to EIFL.) See: Li Lin, Liu Xiwen, and Zhang Xiaolin, Open Access Practice in National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Science, presented at the IFLA annual conference (Milan, August 23-27, 2009): See also our past posts on the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Jay Walsh, 3,000,000, Wikimedia Blog, August 17, 2009.

Canada's Ministers of Industry and Canadian Heritage are conducting a consultation on copyright reform, soliciting comments until September 13. Of particular interest to OAN are comments calling for an "open" copyright system or an end to Crown copyright.

August 16 was the 20-year anniversary of the announcement of The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, an early OA journal. PACS Review went on to publish 42 issues from 1900 to 1998; the archives are still OA. See reflections by Charles Bailey and Walt Crawford.

Xian Ke, Bringing the power of Creative Commons to Google Books, Inside Google Books, August 13, 2009.

Jennifer Howard, Humanities Journals Cost Much More to Publish Than Science Periodicals, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 20, 2009. Access is restricted to subscribers, but see this OA copy. The report is not yet online.

Markham Erickson, Executive Director and General Counsel of NetCoalition, has released NetCoalition's August 12 letter in support of FRPAA.  If you're not familiar with NetCoalition, From the rest of the letter: PS:  Also see NetCoalition's September 2007 letter in support of the NIH policy.

Association of Research Libraries, Author Addenda, SPEC Kit 310, Published by ARL, press release, July 1, 2009.

Cathy Sarli, et al., SPEC Kit 311: Public Access Policies, Association of Research Libraries, August 2009.