SHERPA, Major RoMEO Upgrade Released, announcement, October 22, 2009.

The Wired Campus examines the National Center for Atmospheric Research's new OA mandate and its loophole that puts publisher policies first. Some major publishers in the field have restrictive policies, but the center's library director notes that many authors have moved to OA journals by Copernicus instead.

Daniel Cressey, Open access: are publishers ‘double dipping’?, The Great Beyond, October 20, 2009

Rosa Di Cesare, et al., Towards an Institutional Repository of the Italian National Research Council: A survey on Open Access Experiences, working paper, May 2009.

UK Department for International Development, This is Open Access Week, press release, October 19, 2009. From the Guidance Note on Open Access, dated June 2009: Peter Ballantyne, Towards a DFID Research Policy on Open Access, report, September 2009. Summary of recommendations: Also see OpenR4DFID, a wiki with more information on the study. See also our past post on R4D and DFID.

Ahmed Hindawi, 2020: A Publishing Odyssey, Serials, July 2009; self-archived September 8, 2009.

A new issue of ScieCom Info is now available.

National Human Genome Research Institute, Notice on Development of Data Sharing Policy for Sequence and Related Genomic Data, October 19, 2009.

The Paris Accord is a project of TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue to draft a statement on behalf of creative and consumer groups as to challenges facing both. A 2006 draft included a brief section on scholarly publishing. Delegates will meet this weekend in Paris to work on a next draft; the current draft text includes a significantly expanded section on scholarly publishing.

Michael Geist, Canadian Universities Too Closed Minded on Open Access, Michael Geist, October 19, 2009.

Adi Kamdar, Open up, Yale, Yale Daily News, October 19, 2009. Paul Ramirez, Yale lags behind peers in open access policies, The Yale Herald, October 16, 2009.