Diane Gurman, Why Lakoff Still Matters:  Framing the Debate on Copyright Law and Digital Publishing, First Monday , June 2009.

The Obama administration has appointed Andrew McLaughlin the country's Deputy Chief Technology Officer.  McLaughlin has been the head of global public policy for Google, and will leave the company to take the new position.  David Weinberger, a former colleague of McLaughlin's at Harvard's Berkman Center, says that McLaughlin is "committed to open access".

Voting in the forthcoming European Parliament elections is scheduled for June 4-7. Some news on OA: Frank Swain, Science and the European Elections: Open Access, SciencePunk, May 31, 2009. Responses on public access from 4 UK parties contesting the elections. Comment. I hesitate to characterize any of the responses as calling unequivocally for an OA mandate for EU-funded research.

Stevan Harnad, ETD2009 Keynote: Integrating University Thesis and Research Open Access Mandates, Open Access Archivangelism , June 1, 2009.  PS:  Also see my keynote from ETD2006, in which I argued for mandating OA to ETDs and (toward the end) for integrating the OA repositories and mandates for faculty research and student ETDs.

Luis Villa, Letter From the Editor-in-Chief, Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, June 2009.

The founders of Pronetos, the academic networking site, are offering a pre-launch preview of their Open Academic Press.

Tove Faber Frandsen, The effects of open access on un-published documents: A case study of economics working papers, forthcoming from the Journal of Informetrics.

French Creek Press is a new book publisher (launched in April 2009), whose academic division, Kenwood Academic, will combine OA with POD (print on demand).  For details, see today's post on the press blog by co-founder Shoshana Kleiman.

Alexandra-Emilia Fortis, Indexing Research Papers in Open Access Databases, a preprint self-archived in arXiv May 28, 2009.

Google launched its search service for public data in late April.  It didn't get much attention before it was overshadowed by the publicity surrounding the mid-May launch of Wolfram|Alpha.  But it's definitely worth a look.   Here's a quick comparison of the two. Like Alpha, Google's public data search returns graphs displaying data in response to a search query.  Like Alpha, it cites the sources for its data.

Cameron Neylon is one of the first to see the implications of Google Wave for open science.