Gareth J. Johnson, Repositories and policy - SUTEr Event at the National Library of Wales, UoL Library Blog, February 19, 2009. Notes on SUETr Repository Policy Event (Aberystwyth, February 18, 2009).

Physiopedia is a recently launched OA, FDL-licensed wiki for physiotherapy.

PLoS is helping the Wikimedia Foundation run a survey of Wikipedia use among the scholarly community.  (Thanks to Donna Okubo.)

Jane Park, CC Licensing Your Dissertations, Creative Commons, February 17, 2009. Comment. Peter notes that use of CC licenses for dissertations dates to at least 2006; see this example from Caltech. See also the comments on the CC blog post for other examples. Update. See also danah boyd's comments.

Medpedia, an OA medical wiki, launched its public beta on February 17. See also our past posts on Medpedia.

Iryna Kuchma, eIFL.net and Bioline International signed the Memorandum of Understanding to promote open access, eIFL, February 16, 2009.

The proposal to require OA for publicly-funded research is ranked #12 on Obama CTO, the unofficial web site collecting recommendations for the Obama administration.  But it's only 21 votes away from spot #11.  Can we spread the word further and drum up a couple dozen more votes?  Every little bit will help in making the case to Congress and the Obama administration for the NIH policy and against the Conyers bill.

Here are some more comments from the press and blogosphere on the re-introduction of the Conyers bill (a.k.a. Fair Copyright in Research Works Act, HR 801), which would overturn the OA policy at the NIH.

Jonathan Gray, Public interest information policy in Germany, Open Knowledge Foundation Wiki , February 17, 2009.  The unabridged English version of an article, in German, from Das Progressiv Zentrum , January 29 2009.

The beautifully strong OA mandate at Science Foundation Ireland took effect on February 1.  SFI is the largest research funder in Ireland. Thanks to OA@UCD and Niamh Brennan for the alert and for this piece of news: Also see our past posts on Science Foundation Ireland.

Jean-Claude Guédon, Between Excellence and Quality : The European Research Area in Search of Itself, a preprint, self-archived February 3, 2009.