Alison Hall and Philippa Brice, Data sharing: privacy concerns and public attitudes, PHG Foundation, March 16, 2009.

Andrew Albanese, Register of Copyrights Not Asked by Congress To Weigh in on Google Book Search? Library Journal , March 19, 2009.  Excerpt: Comment .  Not only was Peters not asked to testify at last year's hearing on the Conyers bill, her office made it known that it didn't like the bill.

Shay David, Industry Perspectives: The Promise of Open Source Video, Streaming Media , March 18, 2009.

JISC, Creative Commons Licences, briefing paper, March 9, 2009. See also e.g. our past post on the briefing paper on CC licenses from the Digital Curation Centre.

Nisha Doshi, Is Society Biased Against "Openness"? A PLoS Board Member’s Perspective on the Future of the Library in the Digital World, Public Library of Science, March 19, 2009. Notes on Cultural Agoraphobia and The Future of The Library (Cambridge, March 12, 2009). See also the podcast of the event.

The Polymath1 project is an open collaborative mathematics project initiated on Timothy Gowers's blog and continued in further blog posts and comments and on a wiki. See also the project timeline.

DRIVER is conducting a survey of European repository managers. See also our past post on DRIVER's companion survey of researchers.

OCLC's FirstSearch now includes OAIster.  See OCLC's press release from March 16. This marriage was part of the plan when OCLC acquired OAIster back in January.

Alexis Madrigal, Open Data: Help Migratory Bird Observations Fly into the Digital Age, Wired Science , March 19, 2009.  (Thanks to Garrett Eastman.)   Excerpt: PS:  Also see the crowdsourcing project to make an OA transcription of handwritten records from the 1875 Norwegian census.

Iain Hrynaszkiewicz and Douglas G. Altman, Towards agreement on best practice for publishing raw clinical trial data, Trials, editorial, March 18, 2009. Abstract: See also Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Can we establish best practice for publishing raw clinical trial data?, BioMed Central Blog, March 18, 2009.

Charles Bailey, Two Million Plus Downloads: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Institutional Repository, DigitalKoans, March 18, 2009.