Two funding agencies, Health Research Board Ireland and Telethon Italy, have adopted open access mandates that require publications resulting from their funded research to be deposited in UK PubMed Central.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

Today, this aim takes a step closer as four European research-funding organisations—the Health Research Board Ireland and Science Foundation Ireland, Telethon Italy and the Austrian Science Fund—have agreed to participate in UKPMC. The funders will mandate that all biomedical research outputs that arise from their funding are made freely available—typically within six months of publication—from the UKPMC repository.

(The Austrian Science Fund and Science Foundation Ireland had prior open access mandates.)

The Norris L. Brookens Library at the University of Illinois at Springfield is recruiting a Director of Library Information Systems. Salary range: $45,000-$60,000.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Serves as administrator for all library information systems. Researches, evaluates, and implements new technologies to enhance and extend library services in innovative, user-centered, and cost-effective ways. This includes conducting research into current, new and emerging trends (may require travel to other educational institutions for demonstrations, etc.), making recommendations to the appropriate personnel and specifying new technologies to be purchased by the library. Develops implementation strategies for new systems and phase out strategies for obsolete technologies.

Provides leadership, plans and delivers excellent web-based library services for the students, faculty and staff of UIS, including creation and administration of dynamically driven web content, online forms and search and retrieval interfaces for the library’s web site. Collaborating with members of the Web Team, assures the quality, accessibility, and currency of the site, as well as consistency with the UIS web site.

The University of Virginia has adopted a voluntary open access policy.

Here's an excerpt from "Faculty Senate Approves Open Access, Authors' Rights Resolution":

The Open Access policy was a revision of a resolution on scholarly publications that was brought to the Faculty Senate last November, Task Force Chair Brian Pusser said. Originally, the resolution said participation would be mandatory by default but that faculty members could sign a waiver to opt out of it. The policy then was revised so that faculty members simply could decide if they wanted to contribute to the repository, Pusser said.

For background see: Faculty Senate Task Force on Scholarly Publications and Authors' Rights and "U.Va. Faculty Senate Weighs Access to Scholarly Articles."