Great Reform Act plans for Scotland go online, National Library of Scotland, January 7, 2009.

Columbia University Libraries and the National Library of Korea to Digitize Rare Books, press release, January 15, 2009.

The Public Knowledge Project has launched a OA collection of presentations and course material created by PKP staff.

Juan Varela, Líderes para la cultura y la ciencia libres, La ciencia es la única noticia, December 30, 2008. Read it in the original Spanish or Google's English.

Preston McAfee is the latest SPARC Innovator.  See today's announcement from SPARC: From SPARC's longer profile of McAfee: PS:  Congratulations, Preston!

Bo-Christer Björk, Annikki Roos, and Mari Lauri, Scientific journal publishing: yearly volume and open access availability, Information Research , March 2009.  Abstract:   PS:  Also see the preprint of this article from April 2008.

R. John Robertson, Mahendra Mahey, and Julie Allinson, An ecological approach to repository and service interactions, JISC , Version 1.5, October 2008.  Though dated October 2008, apparently it wasn't made public until January 5, 2009.  Excerpt: Update .  Also see Dorothea Salo's comments.

The University of California Libraries and Springer have struck a deal to facilitate the publication of OA articles by UC authors in Springer journals.  From today's press release: PS:

From the December 28 issue of the EThOSNet Newsletter : More detail from the UoL Library Blog, quoting an offline press release: PS:  Also see our past posts on EThOS. Update (1/23/09).

Seth Grimes, The Real Data Liberation Initiative, Intelligent Enterprise , January 15, 2009.

You know the main arguments for President Obama to reverse the Bush restrictions on federally-funded stem cell research.  Here's a good one you may not have heard, from Deirdre Madden of the University College Cork Law Department: Update .