Open NYSenate is a recently-launched site from the New York State Senate, offering open data and APIs for Senate information.

Gerry McKiernan has posted his slides from a slate of recent presentations, on topics including OA.

On June 22, Lindsay Tanner, Australia's Minister for Finance and Deregulation, announced the creation of a Government 2.0 Taskforce.

Michael Geist has presented his recommendations on openness to a conference hosted by Canada's Minister of Industry Tony Clement on June 22. See also our past post on Geist's recommendations.

Robert McCrum, Give 'em something for nothing and make your fortune, The Observer, June 21, 2009. A review of Chris Anderson's Free: The Past and Future of a Radical Price. See also our past posts on Anderson's Free.

Antonella De Robbio and Michael Katzmayr, The management of an international open access repository: the case of E-LIS, GMS Medizin – Bibliothek – Information, June 16, 2009. In English with German abstract.

Lista Latinoamericana sobre Acceso Abierto y Repositorios is a new mailing list on OA and repositories in Latin America.

Editorial Flamboyant, a start-up publisher in Spain, is releasing a collection of English-language children's stories translated into Spanish and Catalan. The illustrations are reprinted from public domain editions collected in the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, which are available OA via the University of Florida Digital Collections.

The Public Knowledge Project has released version 2.1.2 of its Open Conference Systems software. The release "fixes several minor bugs... and introduces several new features".

The presentations from CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (Geneva, June 17-19, 2009) are now online. See also Imma Subirats Coll, et al., The International Effort Towards the Creation of an International Repository for Library and Information Science: Breaking Barriers in the Access to Scientific Research, from the same conference but not yet available from the conference site.

Dennis G. Jerz, Open Source, Open Access, and Commons-Based Peer Production: Creating a Sustainable University Culture -- Computers and Writing 2009, Jerz's Literacy Weblog, June 20, 2009. Notes on a session at Computers and Writing 2009 (Davis, Calif., June 18-21, 2009).