Rufus Pollock, Open Economics: Recent Progress, Open Knowledge Foundation Blog, January 23, 2009.

Australia's Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has issued a consultation paper asking for public input on, among other topics, OA to public sector information. Background and how to comment: From the introduction to the issue, see especially: The questions: Comment. The paper's overview of OA to PSI is worth reading and generally favorable.

David Linden, Chief Editor at the Journal of Neurophysiology, is soliciting opinions on whether to consider submissions which have already circulated as preprints (i.e. whether to drop the journal's use of the Ingelfinger rule).  Thanks to DrugMonkey for the alert and for reprinting Linden's letter and survey.  Excerpt: Comment .

Benjamin J. Keele, Open access to student-edited law journals, Student Lawyer , February 2009.  Keele is a third-year student at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, and editor in chief of the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies .

Adam Frucci, Monty Python Puts Free Videos Online, Sells 23,000% More DVDs, Gizmodo , January 23, 2009.  Excerpt: PS:  Another in a series with this footnote:  It's not about research literature, but how far does it transfer?

The presentations from the HBZ symposium, The Open Access Landscape in Germany (a session within the Berlin 6 meeting, Düsseldorf, November 11-13, 2008), are now online.

David Dickson, Time to rethink intellectual property laws? SciDev.Net , January 23, 2009.  An editorial.  Excerpt: PS:  See our past posts on the new tech transfer laws in India and South Africa, inspired by the US Bayh-Dole Act.

At the same time that the Encyclopedia Britannica is inviting user contributions, Wikipedia is tightening restrictions.  For details, see Noam Cohen's article in Friday's New York Times , Wikipedia May Restrict Public’s Ability to Change Entries.

Stephen Hutcheon, Watch out Wikipedia, here comes Britannica 2.0, Sydney Morning Herald , January 22, 2009.  (Thanks to Resource Shelf.)  Excerpt: Comments Also see Britannica's announcement from June 2008, previewing these features.

The presentations from IuK im Wandel - im Zentrum der Wissenschaft (Berlin, September 25-26, 2008) are now online.  Several are on OA.

Christopher Kelty, Two Bits at Six Months, Savage Minds , January 24, 2009.  Excerpt: PS:  Also see our past posts on Kelty.