Liz Allen, Responding to community feedback - DeepDyve and PLoS - Q & A, Public Library of Science, November 4, 2009. See also our past post on DeepDyve.

I'll be out tomorrow for a personal day. But check the Open Access Tracking Project for the latest updates, and I'll be back Friday.

Stanford is dropping the requirement that dissertations be submitted to ProQuest and will instead host them in its IR, with optional embargo. The PEER Project (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research) published its final report on workflows for publishers and repositories participating in the project's research. Consumers International launched a survey on barriers to access to knowledge.

Brill introduces Journal Open Access Service: Brill Open, press release, November 4, 2009.

Larry Johnson, NMC and UOC Release Call to Action for Open Education, New Media Consortium, November 1, 2009.

Patrick Williams, Utah State University Press Merges With Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State Today, November 2, 2009. Also see coverage by Inside Higher Ed: Update. Also see coverage by Library Journal.

Caroline Sutton, OASPA one year on: Core values, best practices and future plans, OASPA News and Commentary, November 4, 2009.

Timothy Caulfield, Do Gene Patents Hurt Research?, Science Progress, October 29, 2009.

I'll be out tomorrow as I'm an election official here in Virginia. But the Open Access Tracking Project keeps rolling, and I'll be back Wednesday.

The repository directories OpenDOAR and ROAR are conducting a user survey to inform future development of the services. An editorial in a University of Minnesota student newspaper endorses OA. An article in the new issue of IFLA Journal looks at OA repositories in computer science. Texas A&M University Press is collaborating with the university's IR and the Texas Digital Library for OA publication of selected press books.

The Endocrine Society, which publishes titles including the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism and Endocrinology, developed a hybrid OA option for Wellcome Trust funded authors. For a $3,000 fee, the publisher will deposit the final published version in PubMedCentral for immediate OA, under a CC BY-NC license. The option is only available to Wellcome grantees.