Jim Till, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research adopts an OA mandate, Be openly accessible or be obscure, August 22, 2009.

Sam Wong, Encyclopedia of Life to gather every species into a digital Noah's Ark, The Guardian, August 23, 2009.

Wiki Acceso Abierto is a new Spanish-language wiki about OA. The wiki is a project of the Lista Latinoamericana sobre Acceso Abierto y Repositorios and supported by the Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Paola Bongiovani and Nancy Gómez are the founders and coordinators.

In January, we reported a spate of new or forthcoming OA journals from Academic Journals; Jim Till counted the total of extant or announced journals at 54. On the publisher's journals list, there are now 106 journals, by my count. New titles range Journal of AIDS and HIV Research to Journal of Brewing and Distilling.

Scholas is a newly-launched beta service which brands itself as "Social File-Sharing for Academics". The site is run by an Oxford-based company.

A group of 21 professors from the University of California have submitted a comment on the proposed Google Books settlement.

Peter Sefton, Towards Scholarly HTML, Serials Review, June 30, 2009; see also the self-archived OA version.

Terry Anderson, Royalties from Open Access, Virtual Canuck, August 19, 2009.

Harold Varmus, A new website for the rapid sharing of influenza research, Public Library of Science, August 20, 2009.

Vivien Marx, PLoS Mulls Hosting Software amid Growing Crossover between Informatics and Publishing, BioInform, August 7, 2009.

Walt Warnick and David Wojick, The Knowledge Investment Curve, OSTIblog, August 19, 2009.