Nancy Watzman, How Congress and Special Interests Kept Clinical Trial Data Secret, Sunlight Foundation, October 28, 2009.

Sunil Bhopal and Rossetta Cole, Access to information for medical students - Sierra Leone, Healthcare Information For All by 2015, October 28, 2009.

The Hong Kong Open Access Committee launched a Web site. Brown University is developing a repository and hopes to launch it next spring. The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, a cancer center in Manchester, England, launched a repository. The University of Washington will lose access to 1,000 Springer journals as the result of a change to a consortial purchase agreement in order to cut costs.

A taste of comments and activities from Open Access Week: At the University of Florida, Thomas Walker gave a presentation advocating for an OA mandate. A blog post by the Antioch University New England Library suggests the same there. "We face an interesting challenge when it come to reengineering libraries to support open access instead of our traditional job of procuring content from corporations," writes Barbara Fister.

Follow-ups and additional news announced for Open Access Week: The Repositories Support Project announced the winner of its contest for the UK IR with the most deposits during OA Week. The prize goes to the University of Sheffield's White Rose Research Online, with 101 full-text OA items deposited. SHERPA announced the winners of its OA haiku contest. Top place goes to Miggie Pickton of the University of Northampton.

Nicholas Joint, The “author pays” model of open access and UK-wide information strategy, Library Review, 2009. Only an abstract is OA, at least so far. See also our past post on the UUK/RIN report.

Barbara Quint, HathiTrust Launching Full-Text Library of Books, Information Today, October 22, 2009.

Nancy F. Stimson, National Institutes of Health public access policy assistance: one library's approach, Journal of the Medical Library Association, October 2009.

Katherine Raichlen, Requiring the right rights, Cavalier Daily, October 26, 2009. See also our past posts on the proposed policy at UVa (1, 2).

Ken Masters, Opening the non-open access medical journals: Internet-based sharing of journal articles on a medical web site, The Internet Journal of Medical Informatics, 2009. Abstract: Update. Also see coverage by TechDirt and Ars Technica.

Catching up on news announced as part of Open Access Week: JISC released a guide to its work on OA, including a booklet, videos, and a podcast. The Alliance of German Science Organization's OA working group published a review of OA policies in Europe (in German). The IRcuresILL project displayed posters in Japanese libraries encouraging users to search for an OA copy of an article before filing an interlibrary loan request.