The University of Johannesburg launched its IR, UJDigiSpace, on March 24. (Thanks to eIFL.)

Cara Binder, Welcoming the “Share” Button, What’s New at the Internet Archive, May 8, 2009.

WorldWideScience.org, New Sources Added to WorldWideScience.org, May 13, 2009.

For a piece I'm writing, I'm looking for more detail about the following institutional OA policies.  In particular, I'd like to know (1) whether they were adopted by faculty votes and (2) if so, what was the vote tally.  The links point to my blog posts about the policies.  The dates are the dates of adoption, not the dates of my posts.  If anyone can help with these details, please drop me a line.  I'd be grateful.

Rob Knies, Facilitating Semantic Research, Microsoft Research , May 20, 2009.

Catherine Saez, UN Internet Governance Panel Urges Infrastructure, Education On Access To Knowledge, Intellectual Property Watch, May 19, 2009.

Andrew Albanese, Rip My Book, Please, Publishers Weekly, May 18, 2009. Interview with Chris Anderson, author of the forthcoming Free: The Future of a Radical Price. (Thanks to Charles Bailey.) See also our past posts on Anderson.

Nature.com has added an OAI-PMH interface for accessing metadata on its published titles. (Thanks to Andy Powell.) Update. For more background on OAI-PMH and metadata at Nature.com, see this interview.

The International Publishers Association and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, have issued a joint statement, Enhancing the Debate on Open Access, May 20, 2009.  Excerpt: Comments Taken at face value, this is constructive.  We all want constructive, evidence-based debate.

The Royal Society has modified the fee structure for its hybrid OA program, EXiS Open Choice.

The presentations from Danish Open Access Day 2009 (Copenhagen, March 31, 2009) are now online.  Some are in Danish and some in English.