Stuart Lewis, DSpace at a third of a million items, Stuart Lewis' blog , January 19, 2009.

The Google Knol project has passed the milestone of 100,000th knols.

The University of Minnesota has launched an OA repository for ETDs.

How should libraries catalog books that exist in both digital and print editions (hence including OA and TA editions)?  A task force has developed guidelines.  (Thanks to Charles Bailey.)

The University of Oslo has launched a new series of OA books, Oslo Studies in Language.  Read the January 14 announcement in Norwegian or Google's English. Thanks to Stian Håklev for the alert and for his own translation of parts of the announcement.

Gavin Baker, OA at TACD IP, A Journal of Insignificant Inquiry , January 17, 2009.  Last week Gavin was live-blogging the TACD's Patents, Copyrights and Knowledge Governance conference (Washington DC, January 12-13, 2009).  Now he has summarized the presentations that bear most on OA, and added some comments of his own.

Catherine Saez, IP From Publicly Funded Research Should Benefit The Public, Experts Say, Intellectual Property Watch , January 16, 2009.  Excerpt: PS:  Also see our recent posts on the new tech tech transfer laws in South Africa and India.

The January/February 2009 issue of Educause Review is now available.

John Mark Ockerbloom, Public Domain Day 2009: Freeing the libraries, Everybody’s Libraries, January 1, 2009. Update. See also the new version of the classification system.

Paul A. David and Jared Rubin, Restricting Access to Books on the Internet: Some Unanticipated Effects of U.S. Copyright Legislation, Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, June 2008.

Liz Allen, Save the date - Open Access Week 19-23 October 2009, Public Library of Science blog, January 14, 2009.