Philosophy & Theory in Biology is a forthcoming peer-reviewed OA journal. Authors retain copyright.

The University of Calgary division of Library and Cultural Resources has adopted an OA mandate.  (Thanks to Andrew Waller.)  From the May 5 announcement: Comment .  This is the third OA mandate for the LIS division of a university, after the Oregon State U policy in March and the U of Oregon policy earlier last week.  Or more precisely, it's the third to be announced here on OAN.

Michael Nielsen, Doing science in the open, PhysicsWorld , May 1, 2009.  Excerpt: PS:  Also see Nielsen's blog version of this article from July 2008.

Stevan Harnad, Heidelberger Appell Abgepellt, Open Access Archivangelism , May 9, 2009.

Rachael Beddoe and 12 co-authors, Overcoming systemic roadblocks to sustainability:  The evolutionary redesign of worldviews, institutions, and technologies, PNAS , February 24, 2009.  (Thanks to Nick van der Leek.)

Colin Smith, Open Access and author-publisher relationships: loyalty or apprehension? Open Research Online , May 8, 2009.

Joe Mullin, The Fight of His Life, IP Law & Business , May 1, 2009.  Excerpt: PS:  Thanks to Bill Hooker and Jonathan Eisen for the lead.

The presentations from the workshop on Creating Open Access Journals and Repositories (Donetsk, Ukraine, April 8, 2009) are now online.

For background, see our original post.

Rachel Heery, Digital Repositories Roadmap Review: towards a vision for research and learning in 2013, report commissioned by JISC, May 4, 2009. See also background here.

Kaitlin Thaney, EMBL puts data in the public domain via CC0, Science Commons, May 7, 2009.