Bob Grant, Elsevier tweaks custom pub rules, The Scientist , June 4, 2009.  Excerpt: Update .  Also see Summer Johnson's comments at Bioethics.net .

CLOCKSS preserves access to discontinued OUP title, an announcement from EDINA, May 31, 2009.  Excerpt: Also see the CLOCKSS archive of the BTCI backfile.  All the back issues are hosted under a CC-BY-NC-ND license.

Gaining the momentum: eIFL marks five year commitment to Open Access in South Africa, eIFL.net . May 2009.

Iryna Kuchma, Libraries advocating for open access in Ukraine, eIFL.net , May 2009.  A report from an international conference in Sevastopol, Ukraine, May 21, 2009.

Presentations from the CSIR meeting, Gaining the momentum: Open access & advancement of science and research (Pretoria, May 14, 2009), are now online.

Presentations from the workshop, Open Access: Maximising Research Impact workshop in Palestine (Birzeit, May 25-28, 2009), are now online.

Participatory Medicine will Change the Health Care World as we Know it! Better Health , June 6, 2009.  (Thanks to Janice McCallum.)

Germany's Coalition for Action: Copyright for Education and Research (Aktionsbündnis:  Urheberrecht für Bildung und Wissenschaft) is asking German scholars not to grant VG Wort, the licensing and collecting society, the right to remove them from the Google Book Settlement.  Instead, it's asking scholars to support a (forthcoming) plan for OA through Google. Klaus Graf has posted the Coalition's press release with some comments.

The Medical Library Assocation (MLA) and the Association of Academic and Health Science Libraries (AAHSL) have released a Statement on the Global Economic Crisis and its Impact on Health Sciences Library Collections, May 2009.  Excerpt: Comment .  Note that the ARL statement, which AAHSL and MLA support "in principle", says that Also see my comments on the ARL statement.

Charles Arthur, UK set to follow successful US data method, The Guardian , June 4, 2009.

Robert Kiley, Am J Hygiene and Tropical Medicine clarifies author pays option, UK PubMed Central Blog, June 4, 2009.