Rufus Pollock, The OKF Turns 5 - And We Need Your Support, Open Knowledge Foundation Blog, June 2, 2009.

Albert Greco, ed., The State of Scholarly Publishing: Challenges and Opportunities, Transaction Publishers (June 30, 2009). (Thanks to Gerry McKiernan.) Including this article -- not OA, at least so far: Chen-Chi Chang, Open access, intellectual property, and sustainability issues -- Exploring the willingness of scholars to accept open access : a grounded theory approach

The directors of 10 US and Canadian university presses released this statement today: The statement is signed by the directors of the University Press of Florida, University of Akron Press, University Press of New England, Athabasca University Press, Wayne State University Press, University of Calgary Press, University of Michigan Press, Rockefeller University Press, Penn State University Press, and University of Massachusetts Press.

The National Library of Wales and the Getty Research Institute have joined Flickr Commons.

Making Europe's biggest online library, Science Guide , June 3, 2009.  Excerpt: PS:  Also see our past posts on OAPEN.

Mark Sanchez, Price transparency: Some health providers open access to cost data, MLive.com , June 2, 2009.

The OECD has launched the Factbook eXplorer, a beautifully interactive front end to the data in the OECD Factbook 2009.  Thanks to ResourceShelf for the alert, and for the reminder to see the  OECD Interactive Charts and Trendanalyzer as well.

Open Medicine, the OA journal, has launched an associated Open Medicine Wiki.  The purpose is to provide "an online collaborative tool for improving and updating peer-reviewed systematic reviews." According to the blog post announcing the project, OM now publishes selected articles in three formats:  HTML, PDF, and wiki. Comments This is a very interesting experiment.

In SOAN yesterday I argued that waiver options in university OA policies can remove political obstacles to their adoption.  Today on her blog, Dorothea Salo extends the argument to embargo options in policies to mandate OA for ETDs.

On the Leiter Report , Gualtiero Piccinini asks why there aren't more OA journals in philosophy.  The question has elicited a good discussion on that blog and elsewhere.

University College London has adopted an OA mandate.  From today's announcement: Comment I applaud UCL for this move and look forward to the policy details.  From this announcement, UCL seems to have left a loophole for publishers (ensuring OA "subject to copyright permissions") rather than closing the loophole, Harvard-style, by blocking opt-outs for publishers and opening opt-outs for authors.  More later.