JISC has issued a call for proposals on a series of Rapid Innovation Grants.  (Thanks to Charles Bailey.) Proposals are due at noon on April 22, 2009.

Christian Zimmerman, 1000 archives participating in RePEc, RePEc Blog , March 10, 2009.

Marco Novarese, Quentin Wodon, and Christian Zimmermann, Accessing economic research on Bangladesh, The Daily Star (of Dhaka), March 9, 2009.  (Thanks to Brendan Rapple.)

FCER’s DCConsult Web Site now open access, ChiroEco , March 12, 2009.

kaChing is offering OA to an array of financial data through its new API.

John Wilbanks, Uncommon Knowledge and Open Innovation: Building a Science Commons, presented at ETech 2009 (San Jose, Calif., March 9-12, 2009). See also Robert Kaye's notes on the presentation. See also our past posts on John Wilbanks and Science Commons.

Marcus Hirschfelder, Open Access - Grundlagen, internationale Vorgaben, rechtliche Umsetzbarkeit, JurPC, March 12, 2009.  (Thanks to Klaus Graf.)  Read it in German or Google's English. Whether certain OA strategies are compatible with existing law in Germany and the EU, and whether any amendments are needed to implement them. Update (3/13/09).

Word Add-in For Ontology Recognition is a new, free/open source add-in for Microsoft Word 2007 to add semantic information as XML mark-up using ontologies and controlled vocabularies, and to integrate manuscript content with existing public data repositories. See the Microsoft press release or coverage at O'Reilly;

The Newropeans are a new trans-European political party planning to run candidates for the European Parliament from all 27 member states in the June 2009 elections.

Large Photos of Famous Places and Landscapes Now Available Free Online, press release, March 3, 2009.

VTLS Announces the Release of VITAL 4.0, press release, March 10, 2009. (Thanks to Charles Bailey.) See also our past posts on VITAL: 1, 2, 3, 4.