The presentations from Open Repositories 2009 (Atlanta, May 18-21, 2009) are now online.

The presentations from Show Me the Data — The Science of Editing and Publishing (Pittsburgh, May 1-5, 2009) are now online.

The July 2009 issue of Learned Publishing is now online. See especially: Sally Morris, Crunch time, editorial Lisa Schiff, Creating the Mark Twain Project Online Peter Ashman, What societies want from a publishing partner Sally Morris and Sue Thorn, Learned society members and open access Stephen Pinfield, Journals and repositories: an evolving relationship?

Karin Verspoor, K. Bretonnel Cohen, and Lawrence Hunter, The textual characteristics of traditional and Open Access scientific journals are similar, BMC Bioinformatics , June 15, 2009.  Provisional abstract: Comment. This is not a surprising result.  But it opens the door for NLP researchers to take full advantage of the freely available and rapidly growing sample served up by the OA movement.

Peter Eckersley, Google Book Search Settlement: Foster Competition, Escrow the Scans, EFF , June 11, 2009.  (Thanks to Charles Bailey.)  Excerpt: Comments I like this idea very much, and not just because it supports OA and not just because it's a compromise that stands a chance of being adopted.

A lengthy discussion, in progress, on the role of blogs, mailing lists, and the like in scholarly communication: Matt Wedel, Blog posts, papers, and the brave new digital world: your thoughts are welcome, Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week, June 8, 2009. Matt Wedel, Blogs, papers, and the brave new digital world: Matt’s thoughts, Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week, June 11, 2009.

Harvard Graduate School of Education Votes Open Access Policy, a press release from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, June 16, 2009.  (Thanks to Ray English.)  Excerpt: Comment .  The momentum continues to grow, and you can see where it's going.

Paula J. Hane, Deep Web Tech Relaunches ScienceResearch.com, Information Today, June 15, 2009.

Three more journals have launched their sites at Revues.org. Each will be delayed OA, with some backfiles already available. (Thanks to Charles Ellwood Jones.) Études balkaniques (2 year delay; backfiles 1994-2005) Histoire de l’éducation (4 year delay; backfiles 2000-2004; backfiles before 2000 OA from the publisher's site) Civilisations (3 year delay;

Sam Zaremba, et al., Text-mining of PubMed abstracts by natural language processing to create a public knowledge base on molecular mechanisms of bacterial enteropathogens, BMC Bioinformatics, June 10, 2009. (Thanks to Free Culture &

Pradeep Teregowda, OAI Service available, CiteSeerX Bulletin, March 16, 2009.