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

On April 23, the Faculty Senate of the University of Washington adopted an OA resolution (pp. 21-22) by an overwhelming majority.  From the resolution: Thanks to Charles Wilkinson (Research Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences) for the alert.

The Open Data Commons has released a concise primer, Making Your Data Open: A Guide (Beta), in the form of a four-question FAQ.  Excerpt: The other two questions covered: So How Can I Make My Data Open? How Do I License My Data?

Robert Kiley, ASBMB - join PMC and UKPMC, UK PubMed Central Blog, May 18, 2009.

Quantiki Video Abstracts is a recently launched platform for authors to create and share OA video "abstracts" of their papers in quantum information science. See also the YouTube channel.

Phil Leggiere, WHO Defends Open Access to H1N1 Data, Homeland Security Today , May 18, 2009.  Excerpt: Comment .  I'm dumbfounded that anyone would suggest that we stop providing OA to H1N1 data simply because someone studying the data proposed what now appears to be a false hypothesis.  If that were a ground for suppressing data, we'd suppress all data on every topic, forever.

The presentations from the Digital Library Federation Spring Forum (Raleigh, May 4-6, 2009) are now online.

Patrícia Rocha Bello Bertin, et al., Embrapa Technological Information: A Bridge Between Research and Society, forthcoming in Agricultural Information Worldwide; self-archived May 13, 2009. Abstract: From the article: See also our past posts on Embrapa.

The Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries is a new peer-reviewed OA journal, published by a consortium of 10 Dutch and Flemish research and cultural institutions.  (Thanks to UBA E-Informatie.)

Sharing Congress’s Research, New York Times, May 11, 2009. An editorial. Nancy Scola, What Scares CRS About Going Public, techPresident, May 12, 2009. Open Government Advocates Urge the Senate to Improve Public Access to CRS Reports, press release, May 14, 2009. See also our past posts on CRS.

Sigi A. Jottkandt, No-fee OA Journals in the Humanities, Three Case Studies: A Presentation by Open Humanities Press, a presentation at Berlin 5 Open Access: From Practice to Impact: Consequences of Knowledge Dissemination, (Padua, Italy, 19-21 September, 2008). The three journals are: Culture Machine Cosmos and History S