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

Five more journals have been accepted for inclusion in Revues.org. Like all Revues.org titles, the journals will be OA or delayed OA. At least some of the titles appear not to have been OA previously. Les Annales de Bretagne et des pays de l’Ouest Revue archéologique de l’Ouest RIPES. Revue internationale de pédagogie de l’enseignement supérieur Tr@jectoires.

Talis Connected Commons is a new service from Talis to provide free hosting for data sets tagged with the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License or Creative Commons CC0. See also the March 28 announcement.

Michael Cross, E-government survey urges councils to free data, The Guardian, March 26, 2009.

Cameron Neylon, Oh, you’re that “Cameron Neylon”: Why effective identity management is critical to the development of open research, presentation at Eduserv Symposium 2009 (London, May 21, 2009). Abstract:

O.V. Verkhodanov, The CATS Service: An Astrophysical Research Tool, Data Science Journal, 2009.

Mary Zborowski, CISTI'S Activities in Support of Scientific Data Management in Canada 2008-2010, Data Science Journal, 2009. Abstract: See also our past posts on CISTI.

E-LIS, the OA repository for library and information science, recently passed 9,000 documents.

I'll be on the road April 5-11, with only occasional opportunities for blogging and email.

Managing UK research data for future use, BMJ , March 25, 2009.  An editorial.  (The DOI-based URL doesn't work at the moment.)

From the NLM Technical Bulletin for March 27, 2009: PS:  The answer to FAQ B1 formerly said that the policy applies to any grant in "Fiscal Year 2008" and now says "Fiscal Year 2008 or beyond".