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

Mike Cook, EPUB books now available at Project Gutenberg, Project Gutenberg News, March 20, 2009. (Thanks to ResourceShelf.) See also Peter's recent post on public domain titles from Google Book Search being made available for the Sony Reader.

Evaluation and analysis of Open Accessed Anthropology Journals (Part 1), Sara Anthro Blog, March 24, 2009. An analysis of the language(s) of anthropology journals listed in the DOAJ.

Martin Boosen, Institutionelle Repositorien in Deutschland, Master's thesis at Cologne University of Applied Sciences, 2008.

Stockholm University/KTH, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences and Örebro University Library have joined the Directory of Open Access Journals. See also our past posts on the DOAJ.

The slides from Salvatore Mele's presentation at the SCOAP3 forum at the ACRL 2009 National Conference (Seattle, March 12-15, 2009) are now online.

At several of its 2008 board meeting, the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet, or VR) considered adopting an OA mandate for VR-funded research.  However, at its December 2008 meeting it decided to postpone the decision on the ground that not enough Swedish universities had institutional repositories. The VR explained its decision in a press release on December 22, 2008.  Read it in Swedish or Google's English.

The first 2009 issue of ScieComm is now online.  (It's labeled vol. 1, no. 1, but should be vol. 5, no. 1.)

U.S. President Barack Obama's nominees to head the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco, were confirmed by the Senate on March 19. (Thanks to Science Progress.) See our past posts on the OA connections for Holdren and Lubchenco.

Matthias Spielkamp, Open Excess: Der Heidelberger Appell, Perlentaucher , March 24, 2009.  An extended reply to Roland Reuß and his polemics against OA (1, 2).  Read it in German or Google's English. Update (3/25/09). Also see JGE's extensive reply to Reuß (1, 2, 3), in German or Google's English (1, 2, 3).

Elie Dolgin, India debates open access, The Scientist , March 24, 2009.  Excerpt: PS:  Also see our past posts on OA initiative from India's CSIR. Update (3/26/09). Also see Amulya Gopalakrishnan's article in Indian Express. Update (3/29/09). Also see Sreelatha Menon's article in the Business Standard.