The Open Knowledge Society is conducting a survey of researchers in India. The survey will collect responses until October 1, 2009.

Norman Oder, Google Signs Print-on-Demand Deal for Two Million Public Domain Titles, Library Journal, September 17, 2009. Update. See also the press release from On Demand Books and the blog post from Google Books.

Paul Graham, Post-Medium Publishing, Paul Graham, September 2009.

Center for History and New Media, CHNM Labs Report on Mobile Usage in Museums, press release, September 17, 2009.

Steven Inchcoombe, NPG's annual letter to customers (2009), Nature Publishing Group, September 17, 2009. (Thanks to Information World Review.) See also our past post on Cell Death & Disease.

Canadian Institutes of Health Research, PMC Canada: Making Canadian health research accessible to all, press release, September 16, 2009. See also our past posts on PMC Canada.

The Open University last month released its strategic priorities for 2009-10. Among the 5 business areas: N.B. Open Research Online is the university's OA institutional repository.

This summer, Creative Commons started compiling a database of university copyright ownership policies. An analysis is forthcoming, but several American universities are already listed, and the database is a wiki, so users can add others. The entries consider ownership policies with regard to creative works, courseware, materials, and student works, as well as whether the university has an OA policy.

The Canadian government's consultation on copyright reform reached its deadline for submissions this week. See Michael Geist's summaries of the submissions, comments on the discussion forum, and roundtable events. For submissions that touch on the public domain and Crown copyright, see e.g.: Canadian Historical Association, Association of Canadian Map Libraries &

Several organizations have released statements of support for the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA, S.1373), the U.S. legislation which would provide OA to funded research government-wide: Harvard University Provost, July 15, 2009 Knowledge Ecology International with IP Justice, Essential Action, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, and OXFAM America, July 21, 2009 Academic Council of the

Michael Geist, Has Someone Hit the Delete Key on Canada's Digitization Strategy?, Michael Geist, September 12, 2009.