Cameron Neylon is one of the first to see the implications of Google Wave for open science.

The June/July issue of Research Information is now online.  Here are the OA-related articles.

Transforming Government Data, a 52 minute podcast interview with Clay Johnson first broadcast on NPR, May 26, 2009.  (Thanks to ResourceShelf.)

Kaitlin Thaney, $120m - will it help, and a look at the greater issues, Sniffing the beaker , May 29, 2009.  Thaney is the project manager at Science Commons.  Excerpt: PS:  Note that Francis Collins may soon be the next Director of the NIH.

In January (or so) the US government released DataFerrett, a free tool for searching, browsing, combining, and analyzing open data released by the federal government.  DataFerrett can draw data from many different sources, display it in graphs or tables, and produce reports.

Impact: Journal of Applied Research in Workplace E-learning is a forthcoming journal published by the E-learning Network of Australasia with a 6-month delayed OA policy.

The Journal of New Frontiers in Spatial Concepts is a new peer-reviewed OA journal from the Karlsruhe University Press.  Though the journal has been publishing articles since February 2009, in German and English, it will not officially launch until June 9.  It's Karlsruhe's first online journal. Also see the announcement in German or Google's English.

John Wilbanks has posted a slidecast (slides and audio) of his talk on libraries and the commons, prepared for the Canadian Association of Research Libraries.

Robert Kiley, Open Access Mandates:  View from the Wellcome Trust, a slide presentation from today's RIN/RSP meeting, Research in the open: How mandates work in practice (London, May 29, 2009).  The other presentations are not yet online.

Open Anthropology Cooperative is a new community site.

Online Computer Library Center, OCLC releases software suite to help museums exchange data, press release, May 22, 2009.