The DSpace repository software is now used in more than 700 installations worldwide. The Austrian Science Fund announced new grants to support the publication of OA books. An editorial in a student newspaper at Georgetown University calls on the school to adopt an OA mandate. Dorothea Salo says if your IR isn't working out, shut it down and outsource.

GT Library receives IMLS grant to create statewide digital repository, Georgia Tech Library News, October 7, 2009. (Thanks to Charles Bailey.) See also our past post on the GALILEO Knowledge Repository.

Federal Depository Library Program, GPO & Digitization of Historical Depository Collection, announcement, October 7, 2009. (Thanks to Charles Bailey.) See also our past post on the RFP.

Bob Grant, Open access bill stalls in Congress, The Scientist, October 8, 2009.

The Public Knowledge Project has released version 2.3 of its Open Journal Systems publishing software. OJS is free software which powers the Web sites of more than 2,000 journals, and is probably the most widely-used publishing platform for OA journals. The release includes new features for readers, authors, editors, and site administrators, as well as a rewritten core to improve maintainability.

Motoko Rich, Judge Sets Nov. 9 Deadline For Revised Google Book Settlement, New York Times: Media Decoder blog, October 7, 2009. James Grimmelmann, GBS: Status Conference Status, The Laboratorium, October 7, 2009. See also our past post on the settlement revision.

The American Institute of Physics is providing OA to selected papers by the newly-announced Nobel Laureates in physics. Richard Poynder posts a long profile and interview with early OA advocate Eberhard Hilf. RePEc added 11 new archives in September. Video of the sessions from the first OASPA conference (Lund, September 14-16, 2009) are now online.

Rightscom, Embedding repositories in research management systems: final report, report for JISC, posted October 5, 2009. See also our past posts on the study or on the Research Assessment Exercise and Research Excellence Framework.

Cameron Neylon, Nature Communications: A breakthrough for open access?, Science in the open, October 5, 2009. Neylon then discusses the journal's editorial focus, expected time to publication, relationship with the other Nature brand journals, peer review process, pricing, and licensing. For the most part, he finds more questions than answers in the announcement.

AcaWiki Increases Impact of Scholarly Research Using Web 2.0, press release, October 7, 2009. Also see comments by Mike Linksvayer. Disclosure: I was a paid consultant on AcaWiki. Update: Also see my comments.

The Swedish Research Council announced today that it has adopted an OA mandate for its grantees. From a translation of the press release by Ingegerd Rabow: A page with more information (Google translation) notes that the Research Council signed the Berlin Declaration in 2005.