The American Library Association (ALA) Office for Information Technology Policy has launched Google Books Settlement --"a small informational site about the Google Books settlement."  (Thanks to Charles Bailey.)  It contains the settlement documents and a blog to track new developments and commentary.

Norman Oder, At Panel on Google Book Settlement, Support, Criticism, Contentiousness, Library Journal , January 29, 2009.

Jonathan Vianou, L'infrastructure technologique devra attendre, Le Devoir, January 29, 2009. Read it in the original French or Google's English. (Thanks to Olivier Charbonneau.) Le Devoir is a daily newspaper in Montréal.

Partenariat Cairn/Revues.org, announcement, undated but apparently recent. Read it in the original French or Google's English. A partnership to cross-publish between the two sites, similar the agreement between Revues.org and Persée which we covered recently.

Norman Oder, As ‡biblios.net Emerges, a New Opportunity for Catalogers (and Competition with OCLC)?, Library Journal, January 27, 2009. Norman Oder, OCLC Defends Records Policy, Faces Questions, Suggestions, and Criticisms, Library Journal, January 27, 2009. Richard Wallis, Sharing Usage Data – Dave Pattern & Patrick Murray-John, Talking With Talis, January 22, 2009; podcast.

Janneke Adema, Highlights from APE 2009 – Preconference Day, Open Reflections, January 27, 2009. Notes on Academic Publishing in Europe (Berlin, January 19-21, 2009). Update. See also the notes on days 1 and 2.

JISC has launched a consultation on "scenarios in which access to material in repositories needs to be managed" (i.e. restricted). See background here, or see the consultation site, open until the end of February.

HathiTrust and OCLC to work together to enhance discovery of digital collections, press release, January 26, 2009.

Gideon Burton, The Coming Change in Humanities Publishing (7): The Online Archive, Gideon Burton's Blog, January 28, 2009.

John Wonderlich, Recovery.gov: an Important Moment, The Sunlight Foundation Blog, January 28, 2009. Comment. One wonders how widely this thinking applies. Lawmakers have recognized public access as vital for government spending data -- to what extent does the same thinking carry to other types of public sector information, or to publicly-funded scientific information?

Michael Nielsen, The Logic of Collective Action, Michael Nielsen, January 28, 2009.