York University Libraries have institutional memberships for many journals, YFile, June 9, 2009.

Institute of Museum and Library Services, IMLS Grants Highlighted at Open Repositories Conference, press release, June 8, 2009.

Stevan Harnad has circulated this announcement to several lists: PS:  I second the motion, and hope that every research institution will mandate OA for ETDs as well for the peer-reviewed research articles of the faculty.

David Meyer, PM calls on Berners-Lee in open-government drive, ZDNet UK , June 10, 2009.

Alma Swan and Leslie Chan officially launched OASIS (Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook) at ELPUB 2009 (Milan, June 10-12, 2009).  The OASIS subtitle or motto is: From today's announcement: Comments OASIS should help every kind of OA outreach and educational effort find the most effective material and avoid reinventing the wheel.  Use it as is, improve it, help it grow, and spread the word.

PuMa, the Italian repository software, has launched a YouTube channel.

Dorothea Salo, “Keeping copyright”, Caveat Lector, June 9, 2009.

Seven more journals have been approved to join Revues.org, bringing the total number of journals on Revues.org over 200. As with all journals on Revues.org, the recently-joined journals will be OA or delayed OA. Mélanges de la Casa de Velasquez.

Robert Kiley, American Society of Hemtaology implements Wellcome-compliant author pays option, UK PubMed Central Blog, June 10, 2009.

European History Primary Sources is a new OA index of "scholarly websites that offer on-line access to primary sources on the history of Europe", sponsored by the European University Institute.

Christian Zimmermann, RePEc in May 2009, The RePEc Blog, June 6, 2009