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A 15-chapter open access book published by de Gruyter focusing on knowledge access efforts by libraries worldwide, with considerations given to libraries furthering lifelong learning and library spaces.

A series of case studies presents how libraries (or knowledge centers) contribute to achieving organizational goals, including streamlining contracts with partners, increasing access to corporate members via newsletters and mobile-accessible technology, facilitating directories of "intellectual capital" (think HMS's Catalyst or MIT Expertise), a knowledge source and filter of developments in risk management, and a video archive of institutional knowledge. A wide range of organizations were consulted for the report and HBS' Deb Wallace was instrumental in its creation.

Program announcement from the National Science Foundation. "to enhance and expand the national resource of digital data documenting existing vouchered biological and paleontological collections and to advance scientific knowledge by improving access to digitized information (including images) residing in vouchered scientific collections across the United States. " Seeking proposals from academic, governmental and non-profit orgs.

Google's book service raises monopoly and privacy concerns. It also holds great promise for increasing access to knowledge.

Open Science Summit, which took place in July at Berkeley, is a good example of how "digital scholarship", "e-science" and "open science" and "scholarly communications" are terms from the same vocabulary we are creating to talk about the changes in academia, knowledge transfer, innovation, etc.

OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe), a project funded within the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), develops a network of open repositories providing free online access to knowledge produced by researchers receiving grants from the European Commission or the European Research Council