Robert Kiley, ACS Open Choice articles - now in PMC and UKPMC, UK PubMed Central Blog, March 24, 2009. See also Peter Murray-Rust's comments. See also Peter Suber's past post.

European Commission, ICT Infrastructures for e-Science, report, March 5, 2009. (Thanks to Open Access.) See also Peter's comments on the Communication on scientific information in the digital age or past posts on FP7.

Heather Morrison, Open Access in the Sciences, class presentation at McGill University, March 25, 2009.

James MacGregor, OJS use grows in Norway, Public Knowledge Project, March 26, 2009.

Icthes World Care, a UK-based non-profit publisher of OA journals targeted at developing countries, is closing, according to a notice on its Web site dated January 2009: Update. See also Chris Rusbridge's comments:

James Robinson, Academic publishing house Springer put up for sale in teeth of recession, The Guardian , March 26, 2009.  Excerpt: Comment .  Springer is the world's second largest TA journal publisher, after Elsevier.  But since buying BMC last October, it's also the world's largest OA publisher.

Carnegie Mellon librarians recently digitized the backfile of the American Journal of Science for OA.

Richard Poynder, The Open Access Interviews: Hélène Bosc, Open and Shut? March 27, 2009.  This is another richly textured interview, unearthing details about the early history of OA, OA in France, OA in Europe, and the career of one of Europe's first and most influential OA activists.  It's difficult to excerpt, but here's a little to whet your appetite:

JANUL Statement on Open Access:  Pursuing New Scholarly Communication, a public statement from the Japan Association of National University Libraries (JANUL), March 16, 2009.  Excerpt: Comment .  A good list.  I'd add that universities, like public funding agencies, should mandate green OA for their research output.  For details and supporting arguments, see my article in last month's SOAN.

Katharina Habermann and Lutz Habermann, An Evolutionary Game-Theoretic Approach to Open Access, a preprint deposited in arXiv yesterday.  (Thanks to arxivmath.) PS:  Also see our past posts on game-theoretic approaches to OA.

Stevan Harnad, On the affinities and disaffinities among free software, peer-to-peer access, and open access to peer-reviewed research, a QuickTime movie of a presentation at Free Software and Beyond: The World of Peer Production (Manchester, March 26, 2009).