The Mellon Seminar in Digital Humanities at UCLA released the Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0.  (Thanks to Charles Bailey.)  Version 2.0 is just as vague on OA as version 1.0.

Sean Flynn, Aidan Hollis, and Mike Palmedo, An Economic Justification for Open Access to Essential Medicine Patents in Developing Countries, The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , June 3, 2009. Accessible only to subscribers, at least so far.

Scott M. Hofer, and Andrea M. Piccinin, Integrative data analysis through coordination of measurement and analysis protocol across independent longitudinal studies, Psychological Methods , June 2009. Accessible only to subscribers, at least so far.

Paying for open access, Haematologica , June 2009.  An editorial.

Randall Mayes, Openness and Biosecurity: Can They Co-exist? Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies , June 7, 2009.  Excerpt: Comment .  I already accept that patient privacy takes priority over OA.  Hence I don't support OA to medical records without either anonymization or consent.  In the right case I can accept that security also takes priority over OA.

PaperC is a new platform for OA books.  (Thanks to Blick Log.) At the moment Paper C is in beta and limited to invited users.  According to Andreas Menn's article in Saturday's Handelsblatt (also see Google's English), reading a PaperC book online is free of charge, and users only have to pay if they want to print excerpts or annotate pages.  PaperC is currently running a

Cene Fišer and three co-authors, Public online databases as a tool of collaborative taxonomy: a case study on subterranean amphipods, Zootaxa , May 2009.  (Thanks to Layla Michán.)  Accessible only to subscribers, at least so far.

Stuart Shieber, The death of scholarly journals? The Occasional Pamphlet , June 8, 2009.  Excerpt: Comment .  This is an excellent response that should circulate at all schools considering an OA policy.  I'd only recommend that it reflect the fact, which Stuart recently confirmed, that most OA journals charge no publication fees.

Cameron Neylon, Google Wave In Research - The Slightly More Sober View - Part I - Papers, Science in the Open , June 8, 2009.  Excerpt: Update (6/8/09). Also see Part II, on using Google Wave for an open lab notebook.

Subbiah Arunachalam (a.k.a. Arun) has launched a blog.  Arun is India's leading OA activist and one of the leading activists for OA in developing countries worldwide.  His blog is bound to become an important source of news and comment on OA in developing countries.  On launch day --today--  Arun links back to some of his major interviews on OA.

Bob Grant, Elsevier tweaks custom pub rules, The Scientist , June 4, 2009.  Excerpt: Update .  Also see Summer Johnson's comments at Bioethics.net .