Hervé Le Crosnier, Libre-accès aux publications scientifiques, Mediapart, January 15, 2009. Read it in the original French or Google's English.

Genetics Selection Evolution converted to OA with BioMed Central this month. See the January 15 announcement. The article-processing charge during 2009 is €750. Authors retain copyright. Several steps preceded the conversion to OA: In January 2007, the journal began offering a hybrid OA option to authors.

Thomas R. Bruce, Sustainability, b-screeds, January 14, 2009.

The report from Creative Commons' December 13-14, 2008 board meeting is now online.

Jeffrey Tucker, Copyright, profit, and liturgical music, New Liturgical Movement , January 15, 2009.  (Thanks to Gino D'Oca.)  Tucker reprints a letter to the editor of the New Oxford Review , including this passage: Then he adds his own comments.  Excerpt: PS:  See our past posts on OA to Catholic liturgical texts and music.

Barbara Kirsop summarizes seven years of usage data from Bioline International:

M. Antonelli and G. Mercurio, Reporting, access, and transparency: better infrastructure of clinical trials, Critical Care Medicine , January 2009 (1 Supplement).  I can't find this in the journal TOC, so I'm linking to the record at PubMed.

The CONTENTdm repository software has released version 5 with unicode support.  For details, see yesterday's press release.  (Thanks to Charles Bailey.) PS:  Also see our past posts on CONTENTdm.

Frances Pinter, The Transformation of Academic Publishing in the Digital Era, a 55 minute video of a presentation at the Oxford Internet Institute.  Undated but apparently recent.  From the description: Pinter is the publisher at Bloomsbury Academic, the new OA imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing.  Also see our past posts on Bloomsbury Academic.

Prue Adler and Charles Lowry of the ARL have an infrastructure suggestion for the Obama stimulus package:  Establish a Universal, Open Library or Digital Data Commons.  Excerpt: Update (1/19/09). Also see Laurie N. Taylor's comments.

Hansjakob Ziemer of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science has published a call for OA to historic images.  Read it in German or Google's English. Also see this related story, in English:  Christine von Oertzen, New Ways of Using Digital Images, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science , undated.