Robinson Esalimba and William New, Spurring Local Innovation In Africa By Improving Access To Information, Intellectual Property Watch, October 19, 2009.

Wellcome Trust calls for greater transparency from journals on open access publishing costs, press release, October 19, 2009.

University of Salford, University formally announces intention to be Open Access for research, press release, October 19, 2009.

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) announced (Google translation) on October 13 that it would offer funding to universities to support OA author funds.

International Open Access Week (October 19-23, 2009) is almost upon us -- here's a sampling of some activities worldwide: JISC and SURF have joined Open Access Week 2009 as Organizers. SPARC released Open Access 101, a 3-minute video for students on OA. DuraSpace released a package of tools and resources about its repository software.

The US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has adopted an OA mandate.  From today's announcement: Comments This policy is important because NCAR research is important.  More than 30 NCAR researchers participated in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC), which won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.

Barbara Fister, writing in Library Journal, says the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) "makes so much sense it's hard to understand why it hasn't already been implemented". Responding to the recent STM report on the publishing market, John Houghton says the report repeats a "number of mistakes" in discussing his work on the economic implications of OA. Three more BioMed Central journals have been accepted for indexing by Thomson Reuters

Tony Hey, Stewart Tansley, and Kristin Tolle, eds., The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery, published by Microsoft Research, October 16, 2009.

Timothy Gowers and Michael Nielsen, Massively collaborative mathematics, Nature, October 14, 2009. See also our past post on the Polymath project.

Jennifer Howard, Open Access to Research Is Inevitable, Libraries Are Told, The Wired Campus, October 15, 2009.

Nature Publishing Group, Nature Communications now accepting submissions, press release, October 13, 2009. See also our past posts on Nature Communications.