Cornelius Puschmann, Why Open Access means Open Research: lessons from the German Open Access petition, Cornelius Puschmann’s Blog, November 18, 2009.

Access denied?, editorial, Nature, November 19, 2009.

The OA Shakespeare Quartos Archive, funded by the UK's JISC and the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities, launched. The German SHERPA/RoMEO database of journal policies got an upgrade. The BioMed Central journals Journal of Hematology & Oncology and Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine have been accepted for inclusion in MEDLINE.

WIPO Launches Enhanced Patent Information Service, press release, November 17, 2009.

Gavin Baker, Nitpicking the Google Books Settlement 2.0, A Journal of Insignificant Inquiry, November 18, 2009. On the topic of access generally, also see: Fred von Lohmann, Google Books Settlement 2.0: Evaluating Access, Electronic Frontier Foundation, November 17, 2009.

Benjamin J.Keele, Examining law journal publication agreements for copyright transfers and self-archiving rights, working paper, self-archived November 18, 2009. Abstract: See also our past past on an earlier version of the study.

In a blog post for The Hill, Heather Joseph highlights the recent Nobelists' letter supporting FRPAA. A study presented at a recent workshop examines Spain's participation in E-LIS and finds Spanish authors have more deposits than authors from any other country. A proposal on improving access to patent information was approved at the World Intellectual Property Organization's Committee on Development and Intellectual Property.

Ana Lyons, GSC Takes Graduate Student Welfare Bill To Washington D.C., The Tech, November 17, 2009.

The legal status of raw data: a guide for research practice, SURF, November 16, 2009. The guide and the brief user's guide are in English and address the context of Dutch law.

Samson C. Soong, Measuring Citation Advantages of Open Accessibility, D-Lib Magazine, November/December 2009.

NWO too goes for Open Access to publications, SURF, October 30, 2009.