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

CODATA has posted a review of its activities on data sharing in 2008.

James Turner, ETech Preview: Science Commons Wants Data to Be Free, O'Reilly Radar, February 19, 2009. A podcast interview with John Wilbanks, with transcript. Update. See also the comments at Molecular Philosophy.

Two US universities and a consortium of 11 others have joined the CERN SCOAP3 project: Oregon State University Tulane University the Florida Center for Library Automation, a consortium of eleven Florida universities

The Association of Research Libraries has released the ARL Statement to Scholarly Publishers on the Global Economic Crisis, February 19, 2009. From yesterday's press release: From the statement itself: Comments The ICOLC statement (January 19, 2009) articulated two principles, the second of which was this (italics in original):

Denmark's Electronic Research Library (Danmarks Elektroniske Fag- og Forskningsbibliotek, or DEFF) has adopted a Danish translation of the Knowledge Exchange's License to Publish.  The license previously existed in English, Dutch, and Spanish.  Here's how KE summarizes the main provisions of the license:

Germany's Digital Peer Publishing (DiPP) project has released an English translation of the latest version (3.0) of the DiPP License.  DiPP has also updated the license FAQ, although it's in German only. Also see our post from last November on the initial release of the 3.0 license.

Frank Norman, UK PubMedCentral, Trading Knowledge , February 18, 2009.  (Thanks to Branwen Hide.)

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is converting the technical content in its its digital library to OA.  (Thanks to Cornelius Puschmann.)

Stevan Harnad, NIH Open to Closer Collaboration With Institutional Repositories, Open Access Archivangelism , February 19, 2009.

Jan Velterop, Industry-funded research IFfy? The Parachute , February 14, 2009.  Excerpt: Comment .  Jan's hypothesis suggests a fascinating and potentially testable way to generalize the thesis behind the OA impact advantage: any kind of increased access should also increase impact .  OA increases access in a large and conspicuous way.