The Repositories Support Project has launched a podcast feature. The initial podcasts are on EPrints, DRIVER, preservation, and Fedora.

Most of the papers to be delivered at next month's conference, National and Global Dimensions of the Public Domain (Sydney, April 16-17, 2009) are already online. The most OA-related of the papers currently up is Roger Clarke and Danny A. Kingsley, Open Access to Journal Content as a Case Study in Unlocking IP, last revised March 30, 2009.  Abstract:

The slides and video from Selling the Law: The Business of Public Access to Court Records (Princeton, February 5, 2009) are now online.

Shreyansh Vakil, XC's OAI Toolkit on Google Code, Code for Libraries list, March 27, 2009.

The Fall 2008 issue of Library Trends is a theme issue on "Institutional Repositories: Current State and Future". Contents: Sarah L. Shreeves and Melissa H. Cragin, Introduction: Institutional Repositories: Current State and Future Dorothea Salo, Innkeeper at the Roach Motel Neil Jacobs, et al., Institutional Repositories in the UK: The JISC Approach Carole L. Palmer, et al., Strategies for Institutional Repository Development: A Case Study of

Thiru Balasubramaniam, Balanced agenda reached at the conclusion of WIPO patent committee, Knowledge Ecology Notes , March 30, 2009.  Excerpt: PS:  Also see our post on the WIPO Secretariat's report, Dissemination of Patent Information.

The UK Department for International Development (DFID) has launched R4D (Research for Development), an OA repository.

The Becker Medical Library at Washington University has launched a set of 10+ web pages on Assessing the Impact of Research. From the about page: From the page of Strategies for Enhancing the Impact of Research: Comment .  This is a useful project, well-executed.  Note that some of the strategies are general, and would apply in other fields, but many are field-specific.

The OCLC Review Board of Shared Data Creation and Stewardship has launched a survey on the proposed Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records. Responses are due by April 8, 2009. (Thanks to Garrett Eastman.) See also our past post on the review board.

CloudSocial: A New Approach to Enabling Open Content for Broad Reuse, Open.Michigan, March 5, 2009.

Dawn Lim, Cornell Librarians Protest Bill Closing Access to NIH Research, Cornell Daily Sun , March 30, 2009.  Excerpt: Comment. Kudos to the Cornell librarians.  It's terribly important that research institutions speak up, not just individual researchers.  The bill could move to the floor at any time, or equivalent language could be attached to another bill moving to the floor.