Erik Wilde, Eric C. Kansa, and Raymond Yee, Proposed Guideline Clarifications for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, University of California School of Information, working paper, March 16, 2009. From the body of the report: For more perspective, see the blog posts by the report co-authors Erik Wilde and Eric Kansa.

The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) has launched the CAUL Australian Institutional Repository Support Service (CAIRSS).  From yesterday's announcement: PS:  For related initiatives see the OAD list of Services to support repository managers.

OpenStreetMap has passed the milestone of 100,000 registered users.

Benjamin Edelman and Ian Larkin, Demographics, Career Concerns or Social Comparison: Who Games SSRN Download Counts? Harvard Business School Working Papers , February 19, 2009.

Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government has adopted an OA mandate.  From today's announcement: Comment .  This is the third Harvard OA mandate, after the mandates at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Law School.  A fourth is in development at the Medical School.  It's also the third Harvard OA mandate adopted by faculty vote.

Library Journal has named Dean Giustini and Dorothea Salo among of the Movers & Shakers of 2009. The citation on Dean doesn't mention his OA work.  But for details, see our past posts on him. From the citation on Dorothea: PS:  Congratulations to Dean and Dorothea.

Clay Shirky, Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable, Clay Shirky , March 13, 2009.  This thoughtful piece is about newspapers, not scholarly journals.  But how far do the insights carry over?

The Publishing Research Consortium has released a new report by Sally Morris, Journal Authors’ Rights:  perception and reality (March 2009).  From today's announcement: Comments This is a welcome report.  It's true that most publishers allow authors to deposit their peer-reviewed manuscripts in institutional repositories and it's true that this important fact is not widely known.

EPA Releases Comprehensive Database on Environmental Chemicals Agency continues efforts to provide new level of transparency, press release, March 12, 2009.

Andrew Albanese, In Wide-Ranging Interview, Google Talks Books, Library Journal , March 12, 2009.

Here are some blog comments on Columbia Law School conference, Google Books Settlement: What Will It Mean for the Long Term? (March 13, 2009).  From Peter Hirtle, Part 1: From Peter Hirtle, Part 2: From Adam Hodgkin: Update (3/17/09).  Also see Paul Courant's notes on the meeting: Also see Peter Brantley's notes, and Norman Oder's two stories in Library Journal (1, 2).