At a World Science Festival in New York yesterday, six high school students interviewed Harold Varmus.

The backfiles to the journal Études, 1856-2000, are now online via Gallica. See also a 19-page dossier prepared by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Bonnie Swoger, Scholarly Communication 101, The Undergraduate Science Librarian, June 5, 2009.

The presentations from Integración de contenidos digitales a través de redes académicas avanzadas (Bogotá, June 4-5, 2009) are now online.

Brian O'Leary, The impact of piracy, Magellan Media Partners, June 8, 2009. (Thanks to Boing Boing.) See also the related slides. See also our past posts on O'Leary's research.

Lionel Maurel, Bibliothèques numériques et mentions légales : un aperçu des pratiques en France, :: S.I.Lex ::, June 5, 2009. Read it in the original French or Google's English. Notes on Numériser les œuvres du domaine public, et après ? Diffusion, réutilisation, exploitation : des objectifs contradictoires ? (Paris, June 4, 2009).

The DINI working group on electronic publishing has released a position paper on research data, Positionspapier Forschungsdaten (version 1.0, April 2009).  (Thanks to Klaus Graf.) Update (6/13/09). Here's the report in Google's English.

The theme of the latest issue of AIDAinformazioni is Open Access in Italia. (Thanks to Fabrizio Tinti.) Each article has an English abstract.

Columbia University Libraries/Information Services and SPARC have released a list of Campus-Based Publishing Partnerships, collaborations between libraries and university presses to support publishing. The index includes a list of OA journals.

Richard Poynder, The world’s first Open Access Mandate? Open and Shut? June 12, 2009.  Excerpt: Comments .  Many thanks to Richard and Jens for digging this up.  I'm very much interested in the prehistory of OA myself, especially Richard's question #3.  Here are a couple of other early episodes from my files.

Michael B. Farrell, Schwarzenegger's push for digital textbooks, Christian Science Monitor, June 11, 2009. See also our past post on the California initiative.