Peter Millington, SHERPA/RoMEO API Upgrade and Future Development, posted to the SPARC Open Access Forum, June 12, 2009.

Matthew Cockerill, Wikipedia and open access journals - now more compatible than ever, BioMed Central Blog, June 11, 2009.

Lee Giles, CiteSeerX indexes tables, posted to American Scientist Open Access Forum, June 11, 2009.

Andrea Kosavic, Reaching Out Beyond York’s Borders: Contributing to the Global Research Library, YULibrary News, Spring 2009. From the sidebar: See also this article on Creative Commons from the same issue.

Gaz Johnson, PEERing through the scholarly publishing gloom, UoL Library Blog, June 11, 2009.

The OA Georg Henrik von Wright online collection will be released on June 16 by Filosofia.fi. The collection consiss of 46 articles and essays by the philosopher von Wright.

Australian National University, SkyMapper surveys the southern skies, press release, May 25, 2009.

Bernard Rentier has announced the launch of the web site for Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS).  Read his announcement in French or Google's English.  EOS is the successor to EurOpenScholar (also EOS), which was launched in October 2007.  The first EOS was European, while the second is global.  Rentier is the rector of the University of Liege and the Chair of the new EOS.

Announcing the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) series, announcement, April 2, 2009. (Thanks to Luca Aceto.) See also , by way of comparison, our past post on a new refereed OA repository for conference proceedings in computer science.

Richard Poynder, Gold OA Funds, Open and Shut? June 14, 2009.  Excerpt: Comment .  On the last question, I'm taking steps to add this list to the OAD.  Stay tuned.

What's the point of depositing a paper in arXiv with the annotation, "Submitted to Nature . Under press embargo"?  If a publisher won't consider a paper which has already been published or publicized (that is, if it follows the Ingelfinger Rule), will this hand-waving satisfy it?  Either way, why should authors indulge publishers who adopt the rule?