While the OA proposal at Obama CTO continues to do well, there's another way to tell urge the Obama administration to require OA for publicly-funded research.  I just added the same proposal to the Open Our Government List (OOGL) from the Sunlight Foundation.  But this time, I added a sentence about the Conyers bill.

Patti Lane, reCaptcha: How to turn blather into books, Christian Science Monitor, February 19, 2009.

Adam Afriyie, Government must improve access to data, The Conservative Party, February 10, 2009. Afriyie is a Conservative shadow minister for Innovation, Universities and Skills. See also the Free Our Data blog post on the event where Afriyie delivered the speech.

Péter Jacsó, SCImago Country Rank Database, Péter's Digital Reference Shelf, February 2009. A review of the OA SCImago database of journal data. See also our past posts on SCImago.

eIFL.net and JSTOR have signed an agreement to provide free or discounted access to institutions in eIFL member countries. The project joins efforts such as HINARI (see our past posts) and OARE (see our past posts) to expand access to TA resources in developing countries.

Sarah Gentleman, Making research accessible: repositories, open access and the issue of usage, Research Information Network, undated but recent. Notes on Open Access Research Repository - What's in it for you? (Stirling, February 13, 2009).

Cameron Parkins, University of Michigan Library, Creative Commons, February 19, 2009.

Johan Bollen, Herbert Van de Sompel, Aric Hagberg, and Ryan Chute, A principal component analysis of 39 scientific impact measures, a preprint deposited in arXiv February 12, 2009.

Outsell has released its list of "30 to Watch" in the information industry. Included are the British Medical Journal, Flat World Knowledge, and Public Library of Science. See the December 18 press release or the (TA) report.

Consultation on Role of the Depot, EDINA , February 16, 2009.  Excerpt: Comments I'm one who thinks that Depot plays a valuable role in supporting green OA for scholars who don't have an OA repository in their institution or field, and that Depot could play its current role internationally after its UK funding comes to an end.  But whether you agree with me or not, please let your views be known.

Larry Sanger, The Fate of Expertise after WIKIPEDIA , Episteme , February 2009.  Sanger is the founder of Citizendium and co-founder of Wikipedia.