What's the point of depositing a paper in arXiv with the annotation, "Submitted to Nature . Under press embargo"?  If a publisher won't consider a paper which has already been published or publicized (that is, if it follows the Ingelfinger Rule), will this hand-waving satisfy it?  Either way, why should authors indulge publishers who adopt the rule?

The Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (Országos Tudományos Kutatási Alapprogramok, OTKA) has launched an OA repository.

Don’t Mess With Texas, When It Comes to Memorandum Opinions Anyway, Advocate's Studio , June 12, 2009.

PLoS ONE has launched a new collection on prokaryotic genomes.

The notes and transcript from the first meeting of the Working Group on Open Data in Science (online, June 2, 2009) are now available.

Version 0.3.2 of SNEEP (Social Networking Extensions for EPrints) has been released. (Thanks to Charles Bailey.) See also our past posts on SNEEP.

JURN is now indexing more than 3,000 OA journals. See also our past posts on JURN.

Mir@bel (Mutualisation d'Informations sur les Revues et leurs Accès dans les Bases En Ligne) is a new OA index of online journals, especially Francophone journals in humanities and social sciences. (Thanks to Fabrizio Tinti.) The search includes an option to limit results to journals with full text and/or to OA results.

Andrew Waller, One year (almost) with the Open Access Authors Fund, a presentation at the University of Ottawa Training Week, May 25-29, 2009.  Self-archived June 12, 2009.

Stevan Harnad, The Argument Against (Premature) Gold OA Support, Open Access Archivangelism , June 12, 2009.  This is a relatively short excerpt from a long post.  Those following the debate should read the whole thing.  Excerpt: Update (6/15/09).

At a World Science Festival in New York yesterday, six high school students interviewed Harold Varmus.