Ivan Baxter, Open science helps reviewers!, Ionomics Blog, April 3, 2009.

Aceh Books is a recently-launched site from the Dutch Royal Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies.

Pandektis is a new OA repository of digitized primary sources from Greek cultural history.  (Thanks to OpenArchives.gr.)  See the April 1 press release in Greek or Google's English. Comment .  The digital works in this repository are libre OA, but not because they are in the public domain.  On the contrary, Greece is claiming copyright in these works, while granting broad re-use rights.

Nuclear Knowledge at the Click of a Button, IAEA, April 8, 2009.

The backfiles of several journals were added to Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert (RACO), the OA collection of Catalan journals, in March 2009. The additions bring RACO's totals to 232 journals and 48 participating publishers.

MIT Faculty to Make Articles Freely Available to Public, CAUT Bulletin , April 2009.

Thomas Anz has conducted two interviews on OA for the April issue of Literaturkritik :  one with Gerhard Lauer, who criticized the anti-OA Heidelberg Appeal, and one with Albrecht Götz von Olenhusen, who signed it.  Read the interviews in German or Google's English (1, 2).  (Thanks to Klaus Graf.) Also see our past posts on the Heidelberg Appeal.

JISC has funded PhilPapers, the disciplinary repository and index for philosophy.  Details in the April 6 press release: PS:  Also see our past posts on PhilPapers.

Gary W. Matkin, Open Learning: What Do Open Textbooks Tell Us About the Revolution in Education? Center for Studies in Higher Education , March 2009.

Andrew B. Watson, Comparing citations and downloads for individual articles, Journal of Vision , April 3, 2009.  Editorial.  Excerpt: PS:  Also see the journal's press release and our past posts on this correlation (1, 2). Update (4/13/09). Also see Bill Hooker's comments.

The video and slides of Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet (New York, March 24, 2009) are now online.