Jonathan A. Eisen, For $&%# sake, Bentham Open Journals, leave me alone, The Tree of Life, November 19, 2009. Philip Davis, Giving Open Access a Bad Name, The Scholarly Kitchen, November 23, 2009.

Chris Armbruster and Laurent Romary, Comparing Repository Types: Challenges and Barriers for Subject-Based Repositories, Research Repositories, National Repository Systems and Institutional Repositories in Serving Scholarly Communication, working paper, November 23, 2009. Abstract: The authors invite comments.

Alliance for Taxpayer Access, New England University Presidents Back Bill for Public Access, press release, November 23, 2009.

Prateek Vasireddy, Faculty approves MESALC master’s, The Cavalier Daily, November 23, 2009.

David Wiley, Two Units in BYU Adopt Open Access Policies, iterating toward openness , November 23, 2009. See also: Peter included BYU in his January newsletter's list of "mandate proposals known to be under discussion".

The revised Google Book Settlement gained preliminary court approval. The deadline for comments is January 28, 2010, with the final fairness hearing scheduled for February 18. A grant from the National Science Foundation will help enhance arXiv.

Oberlin College Faculty Unanimously Endorses Open Access, press release, November 20, 2009.

Sharing data, editorial, Nature Cell Biology, November 2009 (not OA, at least so far). Johan Weigelt, The case for open-access chemical biology, EMBO Reports, November 2009 (not OA, at least so far). Christina Chandras, et al., Models for financial sustainability of biological databases and resources, Database, October 23, 2009. Thinh Nguyen, Remembering Babel: Open Data Sharing & Integration, Science Commons, November 19, 2009. Shadi S.

Primary Research Group has published The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Digital Repositories and Views on Open Access, press release, November 2009.

OA journal announcements, launches, and conversions spotted in the past week or so: New OA backfiles: Jamaica Journal (1967-2007), via the the Digital Library of the Caribbean (announcement) Bulletin of the Evangelical Theological Society (1958-1968), via BiblicalStudies.org.uk (announcement) Vox Evangelica (1962-1997), via BiblicalStudies.org.uk (announcement) Reformation &

Cornelius Puschmann, Why Open Access means Open Research: lessons from the German Open Access petition, Cornelius Puschmann’s Blog, November 18, 2009.