Zhen Lei, Rakhi Juneja, and Brian D Wright, Patents versus patenting: implications of intellectual property protection for biological research, Nature Biotechnology , 27 (2009) pp. 36-40.  (Thanks to Michael Geist.)  Excerpt Also see the Supplementary information at the journal web site.

Stevan Harnad, The fundamental importance of capturing cited-reference metadata in Institutional Repository deposits, Open Access Archivangelism , January 22, 2009.

If you remember, Google Book Search tends to block access to users outside the US, even when they try to click through to books that are in the public domain in both the US and the user's country (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). Klaus Graf has posted instructions on how non-US users can create a US proxy and regain access. Comment .  Google:  Why does it have to be this difficult?

Charles Ellwood Jones has compiled a list of 15 Croatian Open Access Archaeology Journals.

Rufus Pollock, Open Data Commons now at the OKF, Open Knowledge Foundation Blog , January 22, 2009.

The InterAcademy Panel on International Issues (IAP) has launched a new Program on Digital Knowledge Resources and Infrastructure in Developing Countries.

The U.S. National Research Council has launched a new Board on Research Data and Information.

Jennifer Howard, Archive Watch: Bohemian Rhapsody, Wired Campus, January 20, 2009. Interview with Edward Whitley, editorial director of The Vault at Pfaff’s, an OA "archive of art and literature by New York's nineteenth-century Bohemians".

3R (Red de Repositorios Universitarios de Recursos Digitales) is a project to develop a network of repositories at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Robert Darnton, Google and the Future of Books, The New York Review of Books , February 12, 2009.  Darnton is the Director of the Harvard University Library.  At his direction, Harvard's is the first and largest library to refuse to participate in the Google settlement.

Digital Karnak is a recently-launched project at the University of California at Los Angeles to See also the article in Wired Campus.