The Scholarly Publishing Roundtable --a US group consisting mostly of librarians, publishers, and provosts-- today released its recommendations on OA for publicly-funded research.

I'll be out tomorrow, but the Open Access Tracking Project remains active, as always. Happy World's Fair Use Day!

UK PubMed Central launched a new beta interface. The Electronic Frontier Foundation comes out for public access in the OSTP consultation. Charles Bailey released an updated version of his Institutional Repository Bibliography. The OA Libyan Journal of Medicine is now published by Co-Action Publishing.

Richard Poynder, Open Access: Counting Gold, Open and Shut?, January 8, 2010.

Mike Cook, Project Gutenberg Ends One Year And Starts Another, Project Gutenberg News, January 9, 2010.

Barbara Fister recaps the highs and lows for OA in 2009. DuraSpace is conducting a survey to improve its "understanding of institutions’ needs for managing and storing digital content". Responses are due January 22. If you're using version 1.1 of the RoMEO API, time to upgrade: service is being discontinued in favor of a newer version.

Les Carr & Tim Brody, Registry of Open Access Repositories upgraded, JISC-REPOSITORIES list, January 8, 2010.

Beth St. Jean, et al., Unheard Voices: Institutional Repository End-Users, College & Research Libraries, preprint, December 26, 2009.

Diane DiEuliis and Courtney Patterson, Phase III Wrap-Up, OSTP Blog, January 7, 2010.

Bob Jones of the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project predicts that the movement for OA data will continue to grow in 2010. A look back at the first year of the Institutional Repository of Asturias (in Spanish). "There's little doubt that the growing availability of books and periodical content -- at low or no cost -- will change the spread of knowledge," says Mike Elgan.

Christian Zimmermann, RePEc in December 2009, and a look back at 2009, The RePEc Blog, January 7, 2010.