Eric Pfanner, France Offers Google Its Books in Exchange for Tax, New York Times, January 14, 2010. The report is available here (in French).

Jeff Good, LSA Data Sharing Resolution, Cyberling Blog, January 11, 2010.

American Library Association and Association of College and Research Libraries response to the Office of Science and Technology Policy consultation on public access, January 12, 2010. Also see the press release.

Gavin Baker, Open access: Advice on working with faculty senates, College & Research Libraries News, January 2010.

Oxford Brookes University launched its IR, containing both research outputs and learning objects. Dan Cohen asks, "Is Google Good for History?" An interview with Antony Williams of ChemSpider. UNESCO's new head of science policy suggests creating "virtual science museums". The Hebrew-language Wikipedia reaches 100,000 articles.

Canadian Association of Research Libraries, CARL Produces Data Management Awareness Toolkit, press release, January 8, 2010.

Phoebe Ayers, 2009 in Review, The Wikipedia Signpost, January 11, 2010.

Joseph Juma Musakali, Bridging the digital divide through open access, SciDev.Net, January 6, 2010.

The National Library of the Netherlands ( Koninklijke Bibliotheek , KB) has released its Strategic Plan 2010-2013.

Phillip Larson, Public Access Policy Forum Enters “Bonus” Round, OSTP Blog, January 11, 2010.

The Scholarly Publishing Roundtable --a US group consisting mostly of librarians, publishers, and provosts-- today released its recommendations on OA for publicly-funded research.