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).
The Journal of the Northern Renaissance is a new peer-reviewed OA journal published by the Scottish Institute of Northern Renaissance Studies. (Thanks to Karen Baston.) The inaugural issue was published on March 3, 2009. New issues will be published annually, with reviews published on a rolling basis.
Gavin Baker, Why not publish data?, A Journal of Insignificant Inquiry, March 16, 2009. See also comments on the open-science list.
Google & Books: An Exchange, letters to the editor of the New York Review of Books in response to Robert Darnton's article, Google and the Future of Books, NYRB, February 12, 2009 (blogged here in January). The new exchange includes Darnton's response.
Jan Velterop, Open wider, The Parachute , March 15, 2009.
Roland Detsch, Urheberrecht: „Je freier Information ist, desto mehr kann damit verdient werden“, Goethe Institut , March 2009. An interview with Rainer Kuhlen. Read it in German or Google's English. (The title is: Copyright: The freer information is, the more can be earned .) Also see our past posts on Kuhlen.
Luis Martinez Uribe, Research data into Fedora at Oxford, DataShare Blog, March 6, 2009.
The presentations from Upgrading the eLibrary: Enhanced Information Services Driven by Technology and Economics (Bielefeld, Germany, February 3-5, 2009) are now online. (Thanks to Charles Bailey.) Several are on OA.
Rufus Pollock, Computing Copyright (or Public Domain) Status of Cultural Works, miscellaneous factZ, March 12, 2009.
Journal of Medicine Use in Developing Countries is a new peer-reviewed OA journal published by the Discipline of Social and Administrative Pharmacy of Universiti Sains Malaysia.
Cathy S. Cavanaugh, Michael K. Barbour, and Tom Clark, Research and Practice in K-12 Online Learning: A Review of Open Access Literature, The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning , February 2009. Comment. This is the first literature review I've seen which deliberately limits itself to OA literature. Don't jump to conclusions about why the authors did it this way.