- Barbara Fister, writing in Library Journal, says the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) "makes so much sense it's hard to understand why it hasn't already been implemented".
- Responding to the recent STM report on the publishing market, John Houghton says the report repeats a "number of mistakes" in discussing his work on the economic implications of OA.
- Three more BioMed Central journals have been accepted for indexing by Thomson Reuters and will receive their first Impact Factors in 2011 or 2012.
- A new JISC study finds that "students expect research content to be immediately accessible, ideally online" and recommends OA as a response.
- Rufus Pollock shares a work in progress on patterns of knowledge production, where he wonders, "Do different policies (for example openness vs. closedness — weak vs. strong IP) have implications for the structure of production and hence for output and productivity?"
- A new bill in the U.S. House of Representatives (HR 3762) would provide OA to Congressional Research Service reports. A Senate version (S. Res. 118) was introduced in April.
- Across the pond, the EU Publications Office has made 110,000 documents OA: "all publications ever edited by the Publications Office on behalf of the EU ... since 1952".
