Cathy Sarli, et al., SPEC Kit 311: Public Access Policies, Association of Research Libraries, August 2009.

Aurelia J. Schultz and Joe Merante, WIPO, CC, and Nurturing the Public Domain, Creative Commons, August 10, 2009.

Jack Rosenthal, A Terrible Thing to Waste, New York Times, July 31, 2009.

Sami Kassab, Reed Elsevier: Announces higher journal price increases than expected, forwarded to liblicense-l, August 7, 2009. Kassab is an analyst at the bank Exane BNP Paribas.

World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO Launches On-line Tool to Facilitate Access to Targeted Scientific Information, press release, July 23, 2009. See also STM's press release.

Dorothea Salo, Sustainability, The Book of Trogool, August 6, 2009.

The European Science Foundation and EUROHORCs (European Heads of Research Councils) in July released their EUROHORCs and ESF Vision on a Globally Competitive ERA and their Road Map for Actions.

The August 2009 issue of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization features an article and three reactions on OA: Leslie Chan, Subbiah Arunachalam, and Barbara Kirsop, Open access: a giant leap towards bridging health inequities.

Yesterday I created a Twitter account for the OA tracking project (OATP),  using RSStoTwitter.  It's not working yet.  The problem seems to be the DDoS attacks now crippling Twitter and the services using its API (1, 2).  But stay tuned.  When life at Twitter gets back to normal, you'll have one more way to follow the OATP project feed.

Open Humanities Press, Five New Open Access Book Series, press release, August 7, 2009.

SURFdirect and Creative Commons Netherlands chose the Creative Commons Attribution license as its recommended license for education and research. From the English version of the report: Meanwhile, ccLearn published a data supplement to its report, What status for “open”? (see our past post).