Hansjakob Ziemer of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science has published a call for OA to historic images. Read it in German or Google's English. Also see this related story, in English: Christine von Oertzen, New Ways of Using Digital Images, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science , undated.
The January/February 2009 issue of D-Lib is now available.
Michel Bauwens, The Most Important P2P Trends of 2008 and 2009, P2P Foundation , January 16, 2009.
Kerrie L. Burn and Katie Wilson, Build it and they will come?: assessing the impact of 'academic-friendly' practices on institutional repository growth at Southern Cross University, a paper to be presented at Information Online 2009 Conference, Sydney, 20-22 January 2009.
1000 textes pour @sic ?, Urfist Info, January 13, 2009. Read it in the original French or in Google's English. Discusses usage statistics of @rchiveSIC.
Acceso libre a la información, II: ciencia pública e información administrativa pública, Kultura Abierta, undated but recent. Read the original Spanish or Google's English. (Thanks to José Gregorio del Sol Cobos.) The site is a production of the Basque Socialist Party.
Library of Congress Leads Nationwide Digitization Effort, press release, January 14, 2009.
Mary Anne Kennan and Fletcher T. H. Cole, Institutional repositories as portents of change: Disruption or reassembly? Conjectures and reconfigurations, presented at ASIS&T Annual Meeting, (Columbus, Ohio, October 24-29, 2008); self-archived January 14, 2009.
Arlene Mathison, Libraries and Publishing: Using Open Journal Systems, presented at the Transportation Librarians Roundtable (November 13, 2008). Slides with audio.
In November 2008, Maxi Kindling und Sandra Lechelt of Libreas conducted a 28:32 minute podcast interview with Eric Steinhauer (in German) on OA in higher education. There is also a transcript, which you can read in German or Google's English. Steinhauer is a lawyer and Vice Director of the Library at the University of Magdeburg.
The German federal government's 2008 media and communications report ( Medien- und Kommunikationsbericht der Bundesregierung 2008 ) was published last month, December 17, 2008. (Thanks to KoopTech.) It's a PDF, so I can't link to a machine translation.