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

OCLC Board of Trustees, Members Council name Review Board of Shared Data Creation and Stewardship, press release, February 6, 2009.

Charles Lowry (ed.), Transformational Times:  An Environmental Scan Prepared for the ARL Strategic Plan Review Task Force, ARL , February 2009.

The Econometric Society announced on February 4 that it would begin publishing a new OA journal, Quantitative Economics, starting in 2010. It will also adopt the OA journal Theoretical Economics, currently published by the Society for Economic Theory.

The new issue of OCLC Systems &

James Boyle, Obama’s team must fight ‘cultural agoraphobia’, Financial Times , December 17, 2008.  (Access to the full text requires free registration.)  Boyle asks you to think back 17 years and imagine that you knew nothing of the World Wide Web or its many applications and services.  If you saw the major arguments pro and con, would you have green-lighted the open web, open source software, or Wikipedia?

Ruth Copans on the future of Scribner Library, ScopeWeekly , February 5, 2009.  An interview with Ruth Copans, the College Librarian of Skidmore College.

The UK Power of Information Taskforce has released a beta version of its Report, February 1, 2009.  (Thanks to Michael Cross.)  Excerpt: PS:  Also see our past posts on the Show Us a Better Way contest and the Power of Information Review, the predecessor to the current report. Update (2/9/09).  Also see the comments of Tom Watson ("A Blueprint for Obama?") and Ellen Miller.

The Public Policy Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery has released its Recommendations on Open Government.  (Thanks to David Robinson.)  Excerpt: In an earlier post, David Robinson gave a good example of the potential benefits: Update (2/10/09).  More from the ACM:  Make Recovery.Gov Web 2.0 Friendly.

Videos from the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting (Baltimore, November 17-18, 2008) are now online: John Wilbanks keynote, Part 1 John Wilbanks keynote, part 2 Bob Witeck keynote David Shulenburger keynote Bonnie Klien: On Government Repositories Catherine Mitchell: On Services, Users & Alliances Ernie Ingles: Why Repositories?

Gavin Baker, Authors: I don’t care where you deposit, just do it, A Journal of Insignificant Inquiry, February 5, 2009. Update (2/6/09).  [Peter Suber:] For my views, see points #3 and #13 in my article from last week on OA policy options. Update (2/7/09).  Also see Stevan Harnad's comments: Update (2/8/09).