Julie Allinson, SAFIR (Sound, Film, Archives Image Repository) Project: Final Report, report to JISC, January 2009.

Bjarne Røsjø, Meir sitering med åpen publisering, Forskning.no , May 20, 2009.  On the advantages of OA, especially for citation impact.  Read it Norwegian or Google's English.

Nancy L. Maron and K. Kirby Smith, Digital Scholarly Communication: A Snapshot of Current Trends, Research Library Issues no. 263 , May 2009.

Jackie Knowles and Stuart Lewis, Final Report of the Welsh Repository Network Start-up Project, JISC , April 21, 2009.  (Thanks to Charles Bailey.)  Excerpt: From the body of the report: PS:  Also see our February post on the launch of the Welsh Repository Network, which gave the WRN some of the kudos noted in the report.

The University of Amsterdam has had to shut down its OA journal fund.  From the site: Comment .  This is a sad casualty of the recession, which is affecting OA and TA resources alike.

The University of Pretoria senate voted unanimously to adopt an OA mandate, to take effect immediately.

The PARSE.insight project has released a review on its first year of work. (Thanks to Fabrizio Tinti.) See also our past posts on PARSE.insight.

Last Thursday Apple rejected Eucalyptus as an ebook reader for the iPhone because it would display OA books, some of which "contain inappropriate sexual content".  Today Apple reversed itself.  For details, see the Thursday blog post by Jamie Montgomerie, the Eucalyptus developer, and his update today.

According to the KEI staff, "Under US FOIA laws, if an agency receives three requests for the same documents, they are required to put the data on their own web page." Comment .  It's a very enlightened rule.  I've long urged an equivalent rule for scholars, and this is a good opportunity to urge it again.

James Love, The World Health Assembly takes step back, but leaves door open, for medical R&D Treaty, Knowledge Ecology Notes , May 22, 2009.  Excerpt: PS:  Also see our past posts on the Medical R&D Treaty and especially our post from last Friday on recent US efforts to kill it.  Note that the draft treaty includes a provision, §13.1, which would mandate OA to publicly-funded research.

Mark Weisbrot, Green technology should be shared, The Guardian , May 20, 2009.  Excerpt: Comments On the one hand, IP interests are wealthy, skilled at lobbying, and well-represented in most national legislatures and WTO delegations.  On the other, environmental interests can be their match, even if they are not yet their match.