Katie Fortney, Towards an Open Source Legal Operating System, working paper, February 20, 2009.

Athanasia Pontika, Introducing the Open Access Directory, a wiki resource about Open Access, Open Students, February 25, 2009. See also our past posts on the OAD.

Piero Cavaleri, et al., Publishing an E-journal on a shoe string: Is it a sustainaible project?, working paper, February 2009.

Carl Malamud of Public.Resource.Org has launched a campaign to be named Obama's Public Printer of the United States. See also James Love's comments or Malamud's podcast interview with Tim O'Brien. See also our post on a recent New York Times story on Malamud, which alluded to his aspirations (although our excerpt omits it), or our many post posts on Malamud and Public.Resource.Org.

I'll be on the road Wednesday and Thursday, with few opportunities for blogging or email.

Lisa Spiro, Digital Humanities in 2008, II: Scholarly Communication & Open Access, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, February 24, 2009.

The Norwegian Research Council has released an English-language announcement of the OA mandate it adopted on January 28, 2009.  (Thanks to Jan Erik Frantsvåg.)  Excerpt: Comments Again, kudos to all at the NRC.  " The Research Council emphasises, however, that this type of archiving must not infringe on the rights of authors or publishers. "  So far, so good.

Bioinformatics.org has announced the nominees for the 2009 Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Access in the Life Sciences.  From today's announcement: PS:  See our past posts on Philip Bourne, Jonathan Eisen, Don Gilbert, and Steven Salzberg.  Also note that Jonathan Eisen's brother and PLoS co-founder, Mike Eisen, won the Franklin award in 2002.

James Boyle, Misunderestimating open science, Financial Times , February 24, 2009.

Fiona Murray, et al., Of Mice and Academics: Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation, working paper, October 10, 2008.

On February 10, SURF announced the Kick Off (in Dutch) of the Dutch Open Access Year.  (For some reason, Google Translate doesn't accept the page, but here's the link to the English translation in case the problem is merely temporary.) Last November 28, the Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam hosted a mini-symposium to anticipate OA Year.  The presentations are now online.