Chuck Henry, A New European Initiative for Open Access, CLIR Issues , March/April 2009.

Stevan Harnad, Waking OA’s “Slumbering Giant”: The University's Mandate To Mandate Open Access, forthcoming in the New Review of Information Networking , self-archived April 14, 2009.

César A. Hidalgo and four co-authors, A Dynamic Network Approach for the Study of Human Phenotypes, PLoS Computational Biology , April 10, 2009.

The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) has posted a six-minute video interview with Harry Heemskerk on OA to African agricultural research.  Heemskerk is the Head of Information Projects and Products at the Dutch Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam.  The interview was recorded at the Dgroups Partnership Meeting (The Hague, April 15-16, 2009).

U.S. President Barack Obama has named Aneesh Chopra his Chief Technology Officer. (Thanks to techPresident.) Chopra previously served as Secretary of Technology for the state of Virginia. In that role, he supported Virginia's "flexbook" program to develop open textbooks.

Bill Hooker has two recent posts looking at pricing trends over the past two decades in scholarly journals as compared to all serials, and at trends for journals across several disciplines: Some wishes come true.

Richard Wallis, Peter Brantley Talks with Talis as he moves to the Internet Archive, Talking with Talis, April 17, 2009; audio, 53 minutes.

Leslie Carr, EPrints and its Development, RepositoryMan, April 17, 2009.

Notes on National and Global Dimensions of the Public Domain (Sydney, April 16-17, 2009): Brianna Laugher, 2009 Unlocking IP conference, All The Modern Things, April 20, 2009. Kylie Pappalardo, multiple posts, OctaviaNet, April 17, 2009.

The Open Grid Forum has started a Digital Repositories Research Group.

Poverty & Public Policy is a new peer-reviewed OA journal published by the Policy Studies Organization and the Berkeley Electronic Press. The inaugural issue was released in March 2009.