Columbia University Joins European Economics Consortium, press release, February 12, 2009. See also our past post on Columbia joining Nereus.

U.S. President Barack Obama's nominees to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Office of Science and Technology Policy, John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco, received a confirmation hearing from the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation yesterday.

Eric Steuer, YouTube Tests Download and Creative Commons License Options, Creative Commons, February 12, 2009.

Congress Again Sets Sights on Toxics Right to Know, OMB Watch, February 10, 2009. See also our past posts on the EPA TRI program.

Stephen Michael Kellat, Interview on Open Access with Dr. Stevan Harnad, February 13, 2009.

I don't know either, but it's a good question.

Stevan Harnad, Universities and their IRs Can Help Monitor Compliance With Funder Mandates, Open Access Archivangelism , February 9, 2009.

Stevan Harnad, OA Mandates: Location, Location, Location, Open Access Archivangelism , February 9, 2009.

Mark Long, Publishing Conferences: The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communication in the Digital Age 2009, TSTC Publishing’s Book Business Blog, February 12, 2009.

Jamene Brooks-Kieffer, ER&L 2009: Managing free e-resource collections, Conference Reports, February 12, 2009. Notes on Electronic Resources & Libraries (Los Angeles, February 9-12, 2009), on the session "Managing freely available e-resource collections with today's vendor provided OpenURL knowledgebases: A challenge in quality control".

María-Francisca Abad-Garcí, et al., Viabilidad de repositorios de biomedicina y ciencias de la salud en la Comunidad Valenciana, El Profesional de la Informacion, March-April 2008; self-archived February 12, 2009.