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

Sherpa has now surveyed 600 publishers for their copyright and self-archiving policies.  As of today, 60% allow self-archiving in some form.

Results from publically funded research should be easy to find on the web and free to read, Knowledge Exchange , May 19, 2009.

John Willinsky, The Risk and Value of Journal Proliferation in the Age of Open Access, Slaw , May 20, 2009.

James Randerson, The palaeontologist who brought fossil Ida to the world, The Guardian , May 19, 2009.  Excerpt: Comment .  Will anyone really raise their eyebrows at this?  Good journals are made good by good articles, not the other way around.

India's International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) has adopted an OA mandate.  (Thanks to Stevan Harnad.)  Excerpt: Comment .  As Stevan points out, this is the third OA mandate in India, after Bharathidasan University and the National Institute of Technology Rourkela.  It's also the first anywhere from a research institution focusing on agriculture.

Two recent presentations on OA by Heather Morrison are now available: Open Access: What's in it my for my library? (with Andrew Waller), presented at the Alberta Library Conference (Jasper, Alberta, April 23-26, 2009) Open Access: Dramatic Growth &

John Mark Ockerbloom, What you’re asked to give away, Everybody’s Libraries, May 8, 2009.

John Wilbanks, NESTA, Open Innovation, Creative Commons, Common Knowledge, May 16, 2009. Notes on Open Innovation and Intellectual Property (London, May 15, 2009).

The presentations from La informació al descobert? Parlem.

BioMed Central, Open Access Membership: Reporting tool brings convenience and control, press release, May 18, 2009.