OA Librarian: Stats Canada electronic docs at no charge! Effective April 24, all electronic publications on Statistics Canada’s Web site will be available free of charge.

Boing Boing: EFF publishes “7 Years Under the DMCA” paper DMCA Delays Disclosure of Sony-BMG “Rootkit” Vulnerability Cyber-Security Czar Notes Chill on Research Censorware Research Obstructed Scientists and Programmers Withhold Research Foreign Scientists Avoid U.S. IEEE Wrestles with DMCA

The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: The Dramatic Growth of Open Access: March 31, 2006 Update With statistics!

Open Access News Does the OA movement need a central organization? Absolutely. Look at Firefox. It has taken both the concentrated efforts of a the Mozilla Foundation and the enthusiastic preaching of it’s users to get it into the public eye (not that it still doesn’t have a long way to go). OA has the [...]

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice is OA and looks really interesting but having the articles in PDF only is going to cut into their readership. Who has time (or patience) to wait for a download of an article you’re not sure you really want?

Open Access News Frank McCown and three co-authors, Search Engine Coverage of the OAI-PMH Corpus, IEEE Internet Computing, March/April 2006. Abstract: The major search engines are competing to index as much of the Web as possible. Having indexed much of the surface Web, search engines are now using a variety of approaches to index the [...]

Newfound Press: University of Tennessee Libraries The University of Tennessee Libraries is developing a framework to make scholarly and specialized works available worldwide. Newfound Press, the University Libraries digital imprint, advances the community of learning by experimenting with effective and open systems of scholarly communication. Drawing on the resources that the university has invested in [...]

OA as a campaign issue in a student government election Gavin Baker is running for the Student Senate at the University of Florida. Baker co-founded the Florida chapter of Free Culture and is making open access a campaign issue. … His candidacy and position could make a difference: At UF, the Student Senate controls an [...]

Open Access News Tom Wilson, Open access and Weblogs – working together, Information Research Weblog, February 10, 2006. We’ve had occasional instances of the value of Weblogs in spreading news about papers in Information Research and we have another at the moment. Nahyun Kwon’s paper on virtual reference service has been noted in a number [...]

OpenDOAR OpenDOAR (the Directory of Open Repositories) has officially launched its list of OA archives and repositories.