Leigh Holmwood, BBC to put nation's oil paintings online, The Guardian , January 28, 2009.

William New, Inside Views: The Last Defence Of The IP System: An Interview With Jamie Boyle, Intellectual Property Watch , January 28, 2009.  Read the whole interview; Boyle makes great good sense.  I've had to limit this excerpt to the parts with the strongest OA connection: Update (2/4/09).

The University of the People is a forthcoming university that plans to offer tuition-free classes. UoP will begin enrolling students in April 2009, will offer degrees and plans to seek accreditation. See coverage by the New York Times or Wired Campus.

A video and podcast of the presentations at the Cato Institute meeting, Just Give Us the Data! Prospects for Putting Government Information to Revolutionary New Uses (Washington DC, December 10, 2008), are now online.

David Tarrant, EPrints gets Cloud Storage Support, EPrints News, January 23, 2009.

MediaCommons re-opened on January 20. See also our past posts on MediaCommons;

BioInformatics, LLC, The Brave New World of Scientific Publishing, report, November 2008. From the description: The report itself is not OA, but a description, table of contents, and methodology are, along with this executive summary and topline findings.

Emilie Doolittle, Foothill-De Anza receives award for online texts, Palo Alto Online, January 20, 2009. See also our past posts on CCCOER.

See the January 22 announcement in the original French or Google's English. Persée, which provides access to digitized backfiles, and Revues.org, which hosts recent issues, will link to each other for issues of the same journal, and will offer full-text searching of both sites.

G. W. Brian Owen and Kevin Stranack, The Public Knowledge Project and the Simon Fraser University Library: A partnership in open source and open access, Serials Librarian, July 2008; self-archived January 23, 2009.

John Willinsky, The Publisher's Pushback against NIH's Public Access and Scholarly Publishing Sustainability, PLoS Biology , January 27, 2009.  Excerpt: PS:  Hear, hear.  See my article from October 2008, analyzing the Conyers bill in detail and showing the false assumptions in the rhetoric of the publishing lobby in support of it.  Also see my point by point rebuttal to the STM briefing document.