Michael B. Farrell, Schwarzenegger's push for digital textbooks, Christian Science Monitor, June 11, 2009. See also our past post on the California initiative.

Tom Scheinfeldt, Omeka 1.0 Drops Today, Omeka, June 2, 2009.

Kate Maternowski, Who Profits From For-Profit Journals? Inside Higher Ed , June 12, 2009.  Excerpt: Comment .  I welcome the support for OA journals.  However, the discussion is oddly unbalanced.

Kathleen Shearer, Open Access at Concordia University: A Report for the Office of Research, March 27, 2009.  Excerpt: Comment .  This is an excellent set of recommendations, effectively packaged with a supporting argument and OA policies from other institutions.  Here's hoping that the Concordia faculty and administration will read it with care.

Sun has released the audio of two recent events, for playback or download: All About DSpace (June 3, 2009, 68 minutes) Increasing Use and Content Through Creative Service-Repository Bundling - A case study at University of Nebraska-Lincoln (April 15, 2009, 60 minutes)

Barbara Fister, On the Same Page: Ten University Presses Support Open Access, Library Journal , June 11, 2009.

Bob Grant, Editors quit after fake paper flap, The Scientist , June 11, 2009.  Excerpt: Comments In April, Marie-Paule Pileni, editor in chief of Bentham's Open Chemical Physics Journal, resigned when the journal published a 9/11 conspiracy-theory paper without her knowledge or approval.

The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) has launched a blog.  In its inaugural post, yesterday, it points out several ways in which practices at Bentham Science appear to fall short of the association's code of conduct, and that Bentham is not a member of OASPA.

Rufus Pollock, Estimating Information Production and the Size of the Public Domain, miscellaneous factZ, June 9, 2009. See also our past post on Pollock's related work on automated identification of copyright status.

Dale Peters, DRIVER: Building a sustainable repository infrastructure to support national and international scholarly communication, presented at Deutscher Bibliothekartag (Erfurt, Germany, June 2-5, 2009). Abstract:

York University Libraries have institutional memberships for many journals, YFile, June 9, 2009.