Mark Tovey, Change Camp Ottawa: Open Data and Open Access, WorldChanging Canada, May 23, 2009. Notes on a session on public sector information at ChangeCamp Ottawa (Ottawa, May 16, 2009).

Open Education News recently passed the 500 post milestone. Comment. Congratulations!

Peter Binfield, Article-Level Metrics at PLoS (presentation to NISO), everyONE, May 27, 2009.

Verlagsstarter has been nominated to win some stART.hilfe funds from the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra and upload-Magazin to help it launch as an OA publisher.

Peter Murray, Online Editions of Out-of-Print Books Results from Library/Press Partnership at Univ of Pittsburgh, Disruptive Library Technology Jester, May 26, 2009. See also our past post on the recent announcement.

Bora Zivkovic has linked to podcasts of his interviews with Radio Belgrade on OA in Serbian.

The University of California Libraries has released an Open Letter to Licensed Content Providers, May 26, 2009.  (Thanks to ResourceShelf.)  Excerpt: Comment .  In addition to the ARL and ICOLC statements mentioned in the letter, also see the statements from RIN (in March 2009) and NERL (in April 2009).

Michael Hart, New Goal Set for Project Gutenberg: One Billion Readers, Project Gutenberg News, May 24, 2009.

Open Journal Systems is now available in Romanian and Welsh.

Yahoo! Image Search has added the ability to filter searches by Creative Commons license.

Ethnologia Europaea has decided to provide OA to its back issues, with a three-year moving wall.  However, it has only digitized its file back to 2004.  It's still looking for funds to digitize the issues from 1966-2004.