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".

MIT has released a short FAQ to accompany its new OA mandate.  (A longer FAQ is accessible only to users within MIT.)

Ukraine's Ternopil State Ivan Puluj Technical University has adopted an OA mandate.  From the text in ROARMAP: Comment This is the first university-level OA mandate in the Ukraine.  Kudos to all involved.  I can't tell from this short summary whether the policy requires deposit at the time of acceptance or some later date.

Bill Hooker, Why don't we share data? Not for the reasons Steven Wiley thinks we don't, Open Reading Frame , April 4, 2009.  A response to Wiley's article in The Scientist (blogged here yesterday).

PARSE.Insight has released its Draft Roadmap for Science Data Infrastructure.  (Thanks to Charles Bailey.)

Four more US universities have joined the CERN SCOAP3 project: Brigham Young University Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia State University University of Washington.

Sol Lederman interviewed Walt Warnick for the OSTI blog .  Warnick is the Director of the US Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), April 3, 2009.

CENDI, the group of science and technology information managers for US federal agencies, has released the minutes of its Principals and Alternates Meeting from January 6, 2009: Comment Don't overlook this bit:  "[S]ome federal [agency] libraries are buying back agency materials in journal issues because they can’t get them any other way."

Megan Ogilvie, Secrecy slowing drug research, The Toronto Star , April 4, 2009.  (Thanks to Leslie Chan.)  Excerpt: PS:  Also see our past posts on Edwards and the Structural Genomics Consortium.

William W. Cope and Mary Kalantzis, Signs of epistemic disruption: Transformations in the knowledge system of the academic journal, First Monday , April 2009.

The EU has published all the public comments on the July 2008 green paper, Copyright in the Knowledge Economy.  (Thanks to Glyn Moody.)  There are 372 comments in the collection, gathered from mid-July to the end of November 2008.  One of the questions (Question 19) raised in the paper had a strong OA connection:  Also see our past posts on the green paper, which include many of the public comments from supporters of OA.