Jane Park, Open Education and Open Science in Poland, Creative Commons, May 14, 2009.

Paul Newman and Peter Corke, Data Papers -- Peer Reviewed Publication of High Quality Data Sets, editorial, The International Journal of Robotics Research, May 2009.

University of Pittsburgh Press, 500 Pitt Press Titles Available Again Online and In Print, press release, April 27, 2009.

Ann Green, et al., Policy-making for Research Data in Repositories: A Guide, report for the DISC-UK DataShare project, May 2009.

Fytton Rowland, Towards a grudging consensus? UKSG Serials eNews , May 17, 2009.  Excerpt: Comments It's disappointing that in an article specifically on paying for OA Rowland would repeat the error that all OA journals charge author-side publication fees.  Not only is it untrue for some OA journals; it's untrue for most OA journals, as we've known since 2005.

Robert J. Ambrogi, Get Your Free Case Law on the Web, Law.com , May 8, 2009.

Next week the city of Vancouver will take up a motion to support open data, open standards, and open source.  (Thanks to Glyn Moody.)

Joseph Kraus has posted his slides and notes from his presentation on OA at the University of Denver's Library Liaison Advisory Group (Denver, May 12-13, 2009).

Anthropology Reviews: Dissent and Cultural Politics is a recently-announced peer-reviewed OA journal. See this blog post for background.

International Coalition of Library Consortia, Statement on the Proposed OCLC Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records, May 11, 2009. (Thanks to Jeremy Dibbell.) See also: Tim Spalding, OCLC Policy, Good night, Thingology (LibraryThing's ideas blog), May 12, 2009.

Richard Cave, PLoS Biology Migration to Ambra/Topaz, Public Library of Science, May 13, 2009. See also: All PLoS titles now on the same publishing platform, everyONE, May 13, 2009. See also our past posts on Topaz.