Adi Kamdar, Open up, Yale, Yale Daily News, October 19, 2009. Paul Ramirez, Yale lags behind peers in open access policies, The Yale Herald, October 16, 2009.

Wellcome Trust calls for greater transparency from journals on open access publishing costs, press release, October 19, 2009.

Charles Bailey, Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 1, DigitalKoans, October 18, 2009.

Diethard Mattanovich, et al., Open access to sequence: Browsing the Pichia pastoris genome, Microbial Cell Factories, October 16, 2009.

Sarika Sawant, The current scenario of open access journal initiatives in India, Collection Building, 2009.

Kate Theimer, NARA’s Digital Partnership Agreements: The Good, the Bad, and let’s hope, not the Ugly, ArchivesNext, October 16, 2009.

In September, five American universities signed the Compact for Open-Access Publication Equity, pledging to support OA journals by paying author-side fees on behalf of their researchers. Of the signatories, Berkeley previously had an OA author fund; Harvard and Cornell announced new funds, leaving Dartmouth and MIT.

The Association of European Research Libraries' strategic plan for the next three years includes a prominent place for OA advocacy. Stuart Shieber asks, "Is open-access journal publishing a vanity publishing industry?", and concludes that OA publishing is not dominated by vanity journals, "nor is it likely" to be. DEFF, Denmark's Electronic Research Library, launched Open-Access.dk, a blog and collection of information about OA in Danish.

Open Access Week 2009, Enabling Open Scholarship, October 18, 2009.

Heather Morrison, Research Brief: Library savings from full flip to open access via article processing fees: about two-thirds savings, The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, October 18, 2009.

Robinson Esalimba and William New, Spurring Local Innovation In Africa By Improving Access To Information, Intellectual Property Watch, October 19, 2009.