Matthew Cockerill, BioMed Central and Twitter, BioMed Central Blog, June 24, 2009.

Stem Cell Research & Therapy is a forthcoming peer-reviewed OA journal published by BioMed Central. See the June 26 announcement. Authors retain copyright and articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License. The article-processing charge is $1690, subject to discounts or waiver.

Matthew Cockerill, New and improved impact factors for BioMed Central journals in the 2008 JCR, BioMed Central Blog, June 24, 2009. Of the 59 IFs for BMC journals listed in the post, 12 are new, 29 are improved, and 18 are not improved.

Water is a forthcoming peer-reviewed OA journal on "the ecology and management of water resources" published by Molecular Diversity Preservation International. Authors retain copyright and articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution license. There are no article-processing charges in 2009; I can't tell if there will be later.

OCLC, Review Board on Principles of Shared Data Creation and Stewardship releases final report, press release, June 26, 2009. See also our past posts on WorldCat or OCLC.

U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information, Find and share global research with new tools at WorldWideScience.org, press release, June 26, 2009. See also our past posts on WorldWideScience.

Myriam Bastin, 12,000 references in ORBi, the institutional repository of the University of Liège, announcement, June 26, 2009. See also our past posts on ORBi and the University of Liège.

International Pharmaceutical Federation, FIP Re-Launches Pharmacy Education, An International Journal for Pharmaceutical Education, announcement, June 30, 2009. Note that access to the full text requires free registration.

Scott Jaschik, U.S. Push for Free Online Courses, Inside Higher Ed, June 29, 2009.

UNESCO releases new publication on open educational resources, press release, June 26, 2009. (Thanks to Mike Linksvayer.) In particular, the license is Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike.

Today I step back from systematic daily blogging in order to free up time for my new position at Harvard's Berkman Center and Office for Scholarly Communication. The blog itself will continue and Gavin will continue at something like his current pace.  I will continue my daily crawl for OA-related news.  I'll continue to tag what I find for the OA tracking project (OATP).