Ulf-Dietrich Reips and Uwe Matzat, High Impact of a Start-Up Journal - Surprisingly so?, International Journal of Internet Science 3(1), 2008. An editorial.

The University of Texas at Dallas has launched an IR, Treasures @ UT Dallas, as part of the consortial Texas Digital Library.  For more details, see last week's announcement.  (Thanks to Charles Bailey.)

The FDsys (Federal Digital System) of the US Government Printing Office (GPO) has entered its public beta.  From the site: For more detail, see Joab Jackson's article about it in Government Computer News , February 5, 2009.  (Thanks to ResourceShelf.)

Poornima Narayana, National Symposium on Open Access and Building Institutional Repositories, National Aerospace Laboratories .  A report on the conference of the same name (Bangalore, January 21-23, 2009).

Stephanie L. Plotin, Legal Scholarship, Electronic Publishing, and Open Access:  Transformation or Steadfast Stagnation? Law Library Journal , Winter 2009.  (Thanks to Michel-Adrien Sheppard.)

Rufus Pollock, Comments on the Science Commons Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data, Open Knowledge Foundation Blog, February 9, 2009. See also: Cameron Neylon, Best practice for data availability – the debate starts…well over there really, Science in the open, February 4, 2009.

Paul Miller, Cliff Lynch talks about the role of universities in disseminating and preserving scholarship, Xiphos, February 5, 2009. A 50-minute interview with Cliff Lynch.

Eric Lease Morgan, Top Tech Trends for ALA Mid-Winter, 2009, LITA Blog , February 9, 2009.

Viresh Ratnakar, Guillaume Poncin, Brandon Badger, and Frances Haugen, 1.5 million books in your pocket, Inside Google Book Search, February 5, 2009.

Germany's Open Access Informationsplattform has summarized the state of OA in philosophy.  Read it in German or Google's English. PS:  One important resource missing from the summary is PhilPapers, which entered its public beta on January 28, 2009.  A project of David Chalmers and David Bourget, PhilPapers is an OA repository open to papers on all topics in the field.

Barbara Quint, OCLC and Open Access: Riding to the Rescue or Rustling the Herd?, Information Today, February 5, 2009.