Jill Hurst-Wahl, CIL2009: Flickr Commons for Libraries and Museums, Digitization 101, March 30, 2009. Notes on a session at Computers in Libraries 2009 (Arlington, Va., March 30-April 1, 2009). See also our past posts on the conference (1, 2).

Remix the Remixer Competition, Bloomsbury Academic’s Blog, May 4, 2009.

Dorothea Salo, A quick question for academic librarians, Caveat Lector, April 30, 2009. Dorothea Salo, Teaching database searching, Caveat Lector, April 30, 2009.

New volumes in Cornell's 101-year old book series on Iceland, Islandica, will be published in dual OA/TA editions.

MetaJuris is a new search engine covering OA legal databases.

Anne Morrow and Allyson Mower, University Scholarly Knowledge Inventory System: A Workflow System for Institutional Repositories, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly , 47, 3-4 (2009) pp. 286-296. PS:  Also see our past posts on U-SKIS.

Gautham Nagesh, Senators want congressional research available to the public, Nextgov, May 1, 2009. See also comments on the bill by the Center for Democracy and Technology, Sunlight Foundation, and American Library Association.

Christian Zimmermann, RePEc in April 2009, The RePEc Blog, May 5, 2009.

The video of Know Your Rights: Who Really Owns Your Scholarly Works? (New York, April 8, 2009) is now online.

Two Medknow journals have added their backfiles, which are now OA: Journal of Medical Physics (to 1978) Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology (to 1998)

The Field Museum Library has joined Flickr Commons. See also our past posts on Flickr Commons.