Thomas David Scheiding, Explaining the inability of economists to practice what they preach: the funding of the American Economic Review with author charges, Journal of Economic Methodology, March 2009. See also this OA preprint.

Meredith Wadman, Open-access policy flourishes at NIH, Nature , April 7, 2009.

The NIH Public Access Policy entered implementation on April 7, 2008 -- one year ago today. For a brief retrospective, see: Gavin Baker, NIH Open Access Policy Turns 1 Year Old, Science Progress, April 7, 2009.

Harvard University has released the March 2 letter it sent to its Congressional delegation, in support of the NIH policy and opposing the Conyers bill.  In its entirety: The letter is signed by Steven E. Hyman, Provost; Robert Darnton, Director of the Harvard University Library; and Stuart M. Shieber, Faculty Director of the Office for Scholarly Communication.

For more than five years, the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute has issued all its publications in dual OA/TA versions.  Now it reports that the OA editions have increased the sales of the TA editions.  (Thanks to Charles Ellwood Jones.)  Excerpt: Comment .  This is especially persuasive because it's based on five years of experience.

Working Together or Apart: Promoting the Next Generation of Digital Scholarship, report of a workshop by the Council on Library and Information Resources and the National Endowment for the Humanities, March 2009. (Thanks to Fabrizio Tinti.) Some of the articles touch on OA.

Library of Congress Makes More Assets and Information Available Through New-Media Initiatives, press release, March 25, 2009. (Thanks to Fabrizio Tinti.) Update. Here's the LOC's YouTube channel.

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

Sean R. Eddy, Open Revolution, PLoS Biology, March 24, 2009. ... The essays collected in Opening Up Education, edited by Toru Iiyoshi and M.S. Vijay Kumar, describe ways in which individuals and institutions intend to exploit digital communications technology, develop innovative and freely redistributable educational methods and resources, and improve education at all levels throughout the world. But what does “open education” really mean?

Alison B. Sailer, Faculty receive scholarships for different fields of study, The Etownian, April 2, 2009.

George Scialabba, What's mine should be yours, Boston Globe, March 22, 2009.