Just some of the interesting items on Twitter and the blog-o-verse this week…

Bora Zivkovic’s video of the week at Scientific American is this amazing montage of the week’s Transit of Venus

A Success, And A Long Road Ahead from Kevin Smith at Duke on the petition to the White House for open access of publicly funded research reaching 25,000 signatures, and a related Op-Ed from the Washington Post on open access.

In what appears to have been an (automation?) error, Creative Commons licensed  images were included in the paid resource Springer Images. Peter Murray Rust comments on his blog, followed by a statement from Springer.

OCLC has named Jack Blount their new CEO, see the story in Library Journal