In the U.S., the White House launched an Open Government Blog. See e.g. this post by CIO Vivek Kundra, Data Transparency via Data.gov. See more coverage of Data.gov in Information Today and Nextgov. In the UK, Minister for Digital Engagement Tom Watson announced plans for an overhaul of Crown Copyright rules aiming to facilitate re-use of PSI. See also the video of the announcement.

Michael Felczak, Richard Smith, and Rowland Lorimer, Online Publishing, Technical Representation, and the Politics of Code: The Case of CJC Online , Canadian Journal of Communication , June 2008.  Not new but newly OA; CJS offers OA after a 12 month moving wall.

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago has released OA editions of about 50 documents from its backlist, many out of print, since our last post on the Institute in the April. (Thanks to Charles Ellwood Jones.) See also our past posts on the Oriental Institute.

The journal Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies has posted this announcement, undated but apparently recent. (Thanks to Charles Ellwood Jones.) Comment. The announcement frames the change as a conversion to OA, but I've titled the post "OA journal drops paper edition" because I believe that's more accurate. Archived versions of the journal site show that the journal has provided OA to complete issues for several years.

Zoë Corbyn, Publisher 'threat' to open access, Times Higher Education , June 18, 2009.  Excerpt: Comments When universities launch OA repositories and policies to fill them, they do it for a reason.  They will not reverse course and turn control over to Elsevier instead.  Deborah Shorley at ICL responded exactly as I'd hope universities would respond. Also see Fred Friend's original memo from June 2.

The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is providing OA to all its papers on H1N1 influenza viruses. The Society for General Microbiology is doing the same for papers in its Journal of General Virology and Journal of Medical Microbiology. Nature has published an article about H1N1 under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license. (Thanks to CC.) See also our past posts on H1N1 flu.

Miguel Barrera Maureira, Open Access - Rol e Importancia, June 16, 2009; a 30-minute video on blip.tv.

Jane Park, IssueLab’s Lisa Brooks on Opening Up Research, Creative Commons, June 16, 2009. Interview with Lisa Brooks of IssueLab. Also see the same interview in comic form. See also our past post on IssueLab.

Barry Brown and Paul Piper, Freely Available Science Information Resources on the Web, Searcher, June 2009. Only this description is OA, at least so far: See also this list of links referenced in the article.

Autism Insights is a forthcoming peer-reviewed OA journal published by Libertas Academica. See the publisher's announcement. The journal's launch is anticipated by September 2009. Authors retain copyright and articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License. The article-processing fee is $1395, subject to discount or waiver.

The presentations from Open Repositories 2009 (Atlanta, May 18-21, 2009) are now online.