Welcome to the World of OER!, OER@UCT, April 1, 2009.

Paul Wood, UI's effort to digitize books surpasses 15,000 volumes, The News-Gazette, April 13, 2009.

Internetworking Indonesia Journal is a new OA journal published by the editors in Bahasa Indonesia or English. The inaugural issue is now available.

The Wikimedia Foundation is now conducting a vote of users on whether to re-license its content under the CC BY-SA license. Voting is open to logged-in users with at least 25 prior edits on a Wikimedia project. See also comments by Creative Commons and Lawrence Lessig. See also our past posts on the process (1, 2).

danah boyd, Remarks from Panel on 'Scientometric Analysis of the CHI Proceedings' at CHI 2009, presented at CHI 2009 (Boston, April 7, 2009).

Harvard and American Physical Society Reach Accord on Journal Publications, press release, April 9, 2009.

A2K and orphaned work: the rise of the Open Access Trust Inc, Open Education News , April 14, 2009.

Lee C. Van Orsdel & Kathleen Born, Reality Bites: Periodicals Price Survey 2009, Library Journal , April 15, 2009.  Excerpt: Comments This is a superb review of the state of OA, not to mention the state of TA.  At the end of the article, Van Orsdel and Born present seven tables of data on journal prices and price increases in different fields, different countries, and different years.

The PEER project (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research) has released its Draft report on the provision of usage data and manuscript procedures for publishers and repository managers, March 31, 2009.  From today's announcement: From the body of the report: Comment. As far as I can tell, this draft doesn't give us a glimpse of the project conclusions on the main question:

The World Bank has released the API to four major data collections.

K.H. Ng, Exploring new frontiers of electronic publishing in biomedical science, Singapore Medical Journal , March 2009.