Overlay journal infrastructure for Meteorological Sciences was a JISC-funded project which ended February 28. (Thanks to Branwen Hide.) See also the project site and this poster on the project.

U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific & Technical Information, View, store, slice, dice research data to suit your science program needs, as OSTI continues expanding access, OSTI News, March 17, 2009.

The American Association of Law Libraries has released its Advocacy Toolkit for the 111th Congress (2009-2010). The Conyers bill, H.R. 801, is included in the Bills We’re Tracking section, under the heading "AALL opposes the following bills".

Imponderabilia is a new peer-reviewed journal of student work in anthropology funded by the University of Cambridge. The inaugural issue is gratis OA; the journal doesn't mention open or free access, but there's also no subscription information.

The presentations from Linked Data on the Web (Madrid, April 20, 2009) are now online.

Anders Rydholm and Olle Svensson, New format, Open Access, and online pre-publication, Acta Orthopaedica , February 1, 2009.

Gideon Emcee Christian, Open Access Institutional Repository in Academic and Research Institutions in Nigeria, a slide presentation from December 2008.

EveryONE is a new community blog from PLoS ONE.

The UK census will spend £12 million to produce a national list of addresses -- and never use it again. The omnibus appropriations bill signed by President Obama (which also included a clause to make the NIH Public Access Policy permanent) included a provision to restore previous reporting rules on releases of toxic information.

Robert Kiley, Finding funder attributed papers in UKPMC, UK PubMed Central Blog, March 19, 2009.

Gideon Burton, Academia must divest from Intellectual Apartheid, Academic Evolution, March 21, 2009.