BioMed Central, Open Access Membership: Reporting tool brings convenience and control, press release, May 18, 2009.

Christian Zimmermann, About self-archiving your research, The RePEc Blog, May 15, 2009.

A group of open data advocates, including Peter Murray-Rust, Cameron Neylon, and Rufus Pollock, recently met at the Panton Arms pub in Cambridge and articulated a set of principles for open data. Here's Neylon's version of what Murray-Rust calls the "Panton Principles": From Neylon's comments: From Murray-Rust's comments: Also see John Wilbanks' comments.

The University of Tennessee is launching an IR. The repository will be called Trace (Tennessee Research And Creative Exchange) and will use Digital Commons.

Microsoft Research has released Zentity 1.0, its research repository platform.  From the May 15 announcement: From the Zentity site: Comments Zentity will be a player.

The JURN Directory is a recently-launched list of more than 1,500 OA journals in the arts and humanities. See also our past post on JURN.

Heather Morrison, The Open Access Imperative and Education, The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, May 17, 2009.

Kara J. Malenfant, Leading Change in the System of Scholarly Communication: A Case Study of Engaging Liaison Librarians for Outreach to Faculty, forthcoming in College & Research Libraries.

Peter Murray-Rust, Are these images copyrightable?, A Scientist and the Web , May 17, 2009. For background, see Murray-Rust's earlier post, What is Data and what should be Open?. Comment. It's not an idle question. Recall the case of Shelley Batts, a science blogger who reproduced a graph from a Wiley-published journal and was in turn threatened by Wiley with a claim of copyright infringement.

Leonie Hayes, Research Repository Case Studies, presented at EDUCAUSE Australasia (Perth, May 3-6, 2009). (Thanks to Charles Bailey.) A series of self-submitted case studies of repositories from Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

STORRE, the IR at the University of Stirling, recently passed the 1,000 item milestone.