Liz Allen, Save the date - Open Access Week 19-23 October 2009, Public Library of Science blog, January 14, 2009.

Last week, STM released a briefing document for members only.  Yesterday it made it OA.  As Michael Mabe, the STM CEO, wrote to Stevan Harnad, who had asked for permission to post excerpts on his blog: Thanks to Michael Mabe for releasing the document, and thanks to Stevan Harnad for seeking and obtaining permission to post excerpts.

Indian Government maintains anti-access position regarding publicly-funded research, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines , December 21, 2008.  (Thanks to Subbiah Arunachalam.)  Excerpt: PS:  See my comment from last week on a similar law in South Africa.

Karl-Nikolaus Peifer, "Wissenschaftsmarkt und Urheberrecht: Schranken, Vertragsrecht, Wettbewerbsrecht", GRUR 2009, pp. 22-28.  Accessible only to subscribers, at least so far. Thanks to Klaus Graf, who provides excerpts and comments.  Read  his post in German or Google's English.

Infobib has compiled a list of links (many from OAN) to articles providing evidence that OA editions of full-text books can stimulate a net increase in the sales of print editions. Thanks to Klaus Graf, who has been creating a Delicious-based list of such articles since March 2007.

The Seegras Logbook (blog) points out examples of copyfraud in Google Book Search:  false claims of copyright on public-domain works.

Barbara Kirsop, on behalf of the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development, has released her January 1 open letter to four Obama appointees on OA policy.

John Mark Ockerbloom, Repository services, Part 1: Galleries vs. self-storage units, Everybody’s Libraries, January 13, 2009. John Mark Ockerbloom, Repository services, Part 2: Supporting deposit and access, Everybody’s Libraries, January 15, 2009.

Gerry Bayne, interview with John Wilbanks, podcast, January 15, 2009.

Folger Shakespeare Library Expands Access to Digital Collection, press release, January 15, 2009.

Hervé Le Crosnier, Libre-accès aux publications scientifiques, Mediapart, January 15, 2009. Read it in the original French or Google's English.