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

Scott Jaschik, The Humanities and the NEH, Inside Higher Ed, September 2, 2009.

Harvard University Library, Harvard's DASH for Open Access, press release, September 1, 2009.

I just mailed the September issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter .  This issue takes a close look at the BMJ model of selling access to abridgments or summaries in order support full-text OA. The roundup section briefly notes 154 OA developments from August.

Frances Pinter, Frances Pinter on the (Academic) Value of Sharing, GOOD Magazine, August 27, 2009. Pinter is the Publisher of Bloomsbury Academic. See also our past posts on Bloomsbury Academic.

Elizabeth Bassett, New Texas cancer institute plans high-impact research, Fort Worth Business Press, August 31, 2009.

Timothy K. Armstrong, Shrinking the Commons: Termination of Copyright Licenses and Transfers for the Benefit of the Public, working paper, September 1, 2009.

SCOAP ³ support in the U.S. passes the 75% mark, SCOAP ³ News, September 1, 2009.

Daniel Baril, L'UdeM prend les devants avec le dépôt électronique des mémoires et des thèses, UdeMNouvelles, August 31, 2009. Read it in the original French or in Google's English.

Since Peter started at Harvard, OATP has become the feeder system for OAN. But Connotea, the service which powers OATP, was inaccessible for most of Monday (at least to me). We'll see if things are any better Tuesday; if not, I'll work around it. Meanwhile, the OATP Twitter bridge is still available, if you want to read what was tagged before the site went down.

New Zealand's State Services Commission has released a draft framework on OA to public sector information, on which it is soliciting comment. Under the draft, an agency would evaluate a particular work and choose from one of the Creative Commons licenses (with the most permissive, the Attribution license, generally recommended) or a to-be-developed more restrictive license, or a certification that the work/data is not subject to copyright.