NWO too goes for Open Access to publications, SURF, October 30, 2009.

Google and the plaintiffs in the Google Book settlement released their revised settlement on November 13; see the proposed Supplemental Notice. The change most directly related to OA is this: Some other changes also may be of interest: Rightsholders can negotiate with Google to change the restrictions on their included works (e.g. to remove the DRM). The Book Rights Registry can allow more than one free terminal per public library building.

Gwen Hinze, EFF Statement to WIPO CDIP 4, A2k, November 16, 2009.

Association for Progressive Communications, Do you have a right to online knowledge? Report shows open internet in danger, press release, November 16, 2009.

Tom Cochrane, Mandates: An Australian Example at the Queensland University of Technology, November 4, 2009. Essay based on a presentation at the CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (Geneva, June 17-19, 2009). See also our past post on the workshop.

Mark Ware, Open Access Submission Fees, putting down a marker, November 4, 2009.

A "manifesto" released by OCLC Research calls on academic libraries to "offer alternative scholarly publishing and dissemination platforms that are integrated with appropriate repositories and preservation services", among other things. HathiTrust released its October newsletter.

ONG Derechos Digitales, Las publicaciones necesitan mejorar sus condiciones de acceso al público, press release, November 13, 2009. Read it in the original Spanish or Google's translation. Excerpt of an unofficial translation;

Richard Poynder, German petition takes Open Access movement by surprise, Open and Shut?, November 13, 2009. An interview with Lars Fischer, author of the OA petition to the German parliament (English translation).

The Université de Provence signed the Berlin Declaration. A report on the Harvard University Libraries calls for the libraries to "continue to emphasize and support ... the University’s leadership in the open access movement". An English translation of the OA petition to the German parliament is now available.

The November 12 issue of Times Higher Education contains a lengthy feature on OA, as well as an editorial calling for institutional OA mandates: Zoë Corbyn and Matthew Reisz, Learning to share Matthew Reisz, 'Giving it away' a textbook argument Ann Mroz, Put all the results out in the open, editorial