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  • The US National Archives is offering a new virtual internship program for Wikipedians: [1].
  • The Computer History Museum, located in the Silicon Valley, California is seeking a Digital Archivist: [2]
  • WikiData started a Periodicals Task force: Periodicals Task Force.
  • Wikimedia UK arranged a Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Royal Society. User:Johnbod is taking the spot: [3]
  • The Ada Lovelace Academy opened a digital school for young adults: [4]
  • The British Library donated a million public-domain images: https://github.com/BL-Labs/imagedirectory [5] [6]. Talks are underway for how to catalogue and integrate these images on Commons: [7].
  • The National Museum of Korea announce high quality images of 7,300 artifacts would be released, and thousands pages of old books: [8]
  • The European Commission launches pilot to open up publicly funded research data: [9]
  • The Paleobiology Database is now CC BY: [10]. UNESCO launched a CC Open Access Repository: [11].
  • BioMed Central moves to CC BY 4.0 and CC0 for data: [12].
  • Norway will begin digitizing every book in its National Library and making free to access for any Norwegian citizen with a Norwegian IP address: [13]
  • The Open Knowledge Foundation signed a memorandum of understanding with the BBC (BBC did so as well with the Europeana Foundation, the Open Data Institute and the Mozilla Foundation: [14]
  • UK students David Carroll and Joseph McArthur's Open Access Button is developing: [15].
  • The US Department of Defense signed an exclusive agreement to license public domain archives: [16]
  • Elsevier issued takedown notices to professors posting copies of their papers on research sharing site Academia.edu: [17]
  • Ann Okerson wrote a great reflection about the state of open access: [18]. The Open Science Center interviewed leading OA advocates as well: [19]. Dan Cohen considered "CC-0 (+BY) as an ideal system for freedom with optional 'ethical' attribution: [20].
  • NISO published a best practices guideline proposal for html metadata to identify the accessibility and reuse rights of a work: [21]. (Compare with WikiProject Open Access' Open access signalling pilot idea.)
  • Neat TED talk on the future of libraries in the 21st century: [22]
  • Out of 31 "informational world cities", a German survey of libraries by the University of Düsseldorf ranked two Canadian library systems, Vancouver and Montreal, as the best in the world: [23]
  • Open Data Day is coming, February 22: [24]