Christian Zimmermann, RePEc in August 2009, The RePEc Blog, September 3, 2009.

Canada's Ministers of Industry and Canadian Heritage are conducting a consultation on copyright reform, soliciting comments until September 13. (See our past posts: 1, 2.) Project Gutenberg Canada has filed a submission.

The judge presiding over the Google Books settlement has extended the deadline for objections and amicus briefs, previously scheduled for today, due to technical issues. The new deadline for submissions is Tuesday, September 8 at 10 am ET. The court's electronic filing system will be down for maintenance until Tuesday morning.

Mike Linksvayer, Does your sharing scale?, Creative Commons, September 2, 2009.

Canada's Ministers of Industry and Canadian Heritage are conducting a consultation on copyright reform, soliciting comments until September 13. (See our past post.) Heather Morrison has posted her submission: Heather Morrison, Canadian copyright consultation, The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, August 31, 2009.

DuraSpace, the foundation behind the Fedora and DSpace repository software platforms, is looking for repository success stories to highlight as part of the upcoming Open Access Week (October 19-23, 2009). Entries will be accepted at the contest Web site beginning until September 28. The best stories win a gift certificate to Amazon.com.

The Public Knowledge Project is looking for beta testers for the upcoming version of its free conference management/publishing software, Open Conference Systems.

The National Humanities Alliance has released its study on publishing in the social sciences and humanities. (See our past post.) From the study's executive summary: Comment. A cursory review of the study shows there's a lot of thought-provoking stuff here.

Alma Swan has prepared an OA advocacy checklist for research libraries for the Digital Libraries à la Carte conference (Tilburg, The Netherlands, July 28-August 5, 2009). The 2-page document includes bulleted lists of suggestions like "Add DOAJ content to your library catalogue", "Demonstrate how to deposit [in a repository]", and "Make the case for a mandatory policy".

Lea Bishop Shaver, The Right to Science and Culture, working paper, March 6, 2009.

Doug Way, The Open Access Availability of Library and Information Science Literature, College & Research Libraries, preprint, August 27, 2009.