Robert Kiley, Am J Hygiene and Tropical Medicine clarifies author pays option, UK PubMed Central Blog, June 4, 2009.

Caryn Shechtman, A Blogger Success Story, New York blog, June 2, 2009.

Stuart Shieber, Open-access policies and academic freedom, The Occasional Pamphlet , May 28, 2009.

Stuart Shieber, What percentage of open-access journals charge publication fees? The Occasional Pamphlet , May 29, 2009.  Excerpt: Comment .  This is important for two reasons.  First, it's new confirmation that most OA journals charge no publication fees.  Like Hooker's earlier study, it covers all the OA journals listed in the DOAJ.

Stuart Shieber has launched The Occasional Pamphlet, a new blog.  Stuart is a professor of computer science at Harvard, Director of Harvard's Office of Scholarly Communication, and the chief architect of the influential Harvard OA policies.  The blog will frequently cover OA, as I'll show in just a moment when I blog excerpts from two of his recent posts.

The three OA journals from the Dutch PalArch Foundation have converted their backfiles to OA.

The University of Nottingham has announced plans to launch an OA-focused Centre for Research Communications (no URL yet).  From today's announcement: Comment .  In April, BioMed Central cited the CRC plans when it named Nottingham the Open Access Institute of the Year for 2008.  Congratulations to Nottingham and best wishes for the CRC.

Firenze University Press has launched a series of 60+ OA books in all fields, La libreria Open Access (the OA Library).  When possible, the titles are published under CC-BY-NC-ND licenses.  (Thanks to Elisa Brilli.) Also see the OA Library page in Google's English, and the FUP page on OA in Italian and Google's English.

The PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research) project has released its Guidelines for publishers and repository managers on deposit, assisted deposit and self-archiving. The document details the procedures for participating publishers and repositories.

Bookboon is a new publisher of OA, ad-supported textbooks. The textbooks are written specifically for Bookboon and cover a variety of topics, such as accounting, chemistry, economics, and statistics. Bookboon is owned by Danish company Ventus Publishing.

Ben Wynne, Web Services and repositories, JISC Information Environment Team, June 3, 2009. Comment. Can any readers provide the event's name, location, and/or URL?