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

The Journal of Systems Chemistry is a forthcoming peer-reviewed OA journal published by Chemistry Central. See the March 19 announcement. There are currently no author-side fees. Authors retain copyright and articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License.

The Library of Congress describes its new "Digitizing American Imprints" Program in a 21-minute webcast from January 14, 2009.  (Thanks to ResourceShelf.)  From the blurb: PS:  The new pilot project is the the LOC's first mass-digitization effort for books, and aims to digitize 100,000 public-domain books for OA.  The occasion for the webcast was the digitization of the 25,000th book.

This afternoon, the MIT faculty unanimously adopted a university-wide OA mandate.  Here's the resolution the faculty approved (thanks to Hal Abelson, MIT professor of computer science and engineering, who chaired the committee to formulate it): Comments This is big.  Another of the world's great research universities has an OA mandate.

Dorothea Salo, A post-Roach-Motel world, Caveat Lector, March 17, 2009.

Gut Pathogens is a new peer-reviewed OA journal published by the International Society for Genomic and Evolutionary Microbiology and BioMed Central. The article-processing charge is £850/US$1190/€920, subject to discounts or waiver. Authors retain copyright and articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License.

Nisha Doshi, Open Access Archaeology and PLoS, Public Library of Science, March 17, 2009.

Dylan Lorime, Why we believe in geospatial data sharing, Google Public Policy Blog, March 17, 2009.

Alexis Madrigal, Rare Trove of Army Medical Photos Heads to Flickr, Wired Science, March 17, 2009. (Thanks to Boing Boing.) See also the project's blog.

Slides from An International Conference on the UK Research Data Service Feasibility Study (London, February 26, 2009) are now available. See also JISC, Managing UK research data for future use, press release, March 5, 2009. An executive summary of the (undated) final report is also available. See also notes by: Bryan Lawrence Chris Rusbridge: 1, 2, 3, 4 Andy Powell John MacColl See also our past posts on the UKRDS.

Heather Morrison, Growing Canadian membership in DOAJ!, The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, March 15, 2009.