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.

Heather Morrison, Open Access Journals: Around the World, and Top OA Publishing Countries, The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, March 10, 2009.

Open Database License Draft Available for Comments, Open Data Commons, February 27, 2009. Comment. The ODbL is, as Rufus Pollock describes it, the "Attribution, Share-Alike" data license. Compare the ODC's Public Domain Dedication and Licence, its "no rights reserved" license. See also our past posts on Open Data Commons.

Elizabeth Connor, Interview with Dean Giustini, Biomedical Branch Librarian at the University of British Columbia, Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries, January 2009. See also Giustini's self-archived version. Abstract: Excerpt: See also our past posts on Giustini.

The internet's librarian, The Economist, March 5, 2009.

JISC, OCLC’s Vice President talks libraries, the future and learning, podcast (24:17), March 9, 2009.

Archan Venkatraman, STM growth takes hit, Information World Review, March 9, 2009.

Remedios Melero, at al., Situación de los repositorios institucionales en España: informe 2009, report, March 2009. (Thanks to Carolina De Volder.) The first in a proposed series of reports on IRs in Spain.

Richard Poynder, Open Access: Whom would you back? Open and Shut? March 10, 2009.  This is a long article making a sustained argument.  I can't excerpt enough of it to show the full argument without trespassing too far on Richard's good will.  So I'll start with a short excerpt setting the stage and then in my comments quote individual sentences to which I'd like to respond.

Andrew Albanese, In 2009 Appropriations Bill, NIH Public Access Mandate Would Become Permanent, Library Journal , March 10, 2009.  Excerpt: Comments Albanese wrote about the Senate action in the future tense.  But the NY Times just reported that the Senate has since voted and approved the bill.  President Obama has said he will sign it tomorrow.

A new knowledge network devoted to the changing role of information in scholarly research, higher education and business practice, announcement posted to SPARC-OAForum, March 7, 2009.