With an Ebook price fixing lawsuit, an open access policy from the World Bank and guidelines from UNESCO, and the bird flu security recommendation reversal (with a catch), it’s been an eventful couple of weeks in blog land.

There was a reversal from the biosecurity panel on publishing the previously blocked bird flu papers (Washington Post), but the publication of one paper is now blocked by export control laws (NPR’s Shots).  In a related but not new item, Ed Yong explains the 2009 vaccine’s relation to the 1918 flu epidemic.

The US is suing publishers for Ebook price fixing (Bloomberg). Here is an interesting item from Forbes about why Apple’s fancy footwork upset the Feds.

Nature precedings is closing up shop. Meanwhile, in other Nature news, the NPG has announced a linked data platform.

Open access’ momentum is clear in the news of late—The World Bank announced an open access policy and launched a repository using Creative Commons licensing, and UNESCO released a set of guidelines for the “development and promotion” of open access to scientific information.

There were changes to testing recommendations for low-risk patients from a number of medical groups last week.  Christine Cassel and James Guest provide an explanation and commentary in JAMA and the NY Times covered the topic as well.

And here is some belated library-related April Fools fun from The Daily Crimson and Google (scroll down in the coverage from SearchEngineLand to the “Really Advanced Search”).