The Wellcome Trust is taking steps to increase the compliance rate with its OA mandate.

The presentations from Open Access Publishing: A two-day Public Knowledge Project Workshop (Sydney, December 4-5, 2008) are now online. (Thanks to PKP.) See also our past post on the workshop.

Travail et formation en éducation is a new OA journal published by the Unité Mixte de Recherche - Apprentissage, Didactique, Evaluation, Formation. See the journal's about page or the January 5 announcement.

The Open Knowledge Foundation has added two library-related datasets to its Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network; see yesterday's announcement.

Charles Bailey has released Version 74 of his Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. See this blog post for information on what's been updated.

Cell Transplantation - The Regenerative Medicine Journal converted to OA, according to an announcement today by the journal's editors.

Andrew Albanese, Top Ten Academic Library Stories of 2008, Library Journal Academic Newswire , January 6, 2009.  Seven of the 10 have an OA connection have been covered here in OAN, some briefly, some extensively.

In my SOAN article last week, Open access in 2008, I mischaracterized the nature of peer review at PLoS ONE.  I'm happy to post this correction from the managing editor, Peter Binfield.  I'll also run it as an erratum in the next issue of SOAN.

The Frontiers Research Foundation has launched an "open access research publishing community" called Friends of Frontiers.  From today's announcement: From the FoF site: Also see the FoF page on Current Problems in Research Publishing: Comment .  In the fall of 2007, the Frontiers Research Foundation launched an OA journal, Frontiers in Neuroscience.

Stevan Harnad, A Physicist's Challenge to Duplicate Arxiv's Functionality Over Distributed Institutional Repositories, Open Access Archivangelism , January 5, 2009. PS:  Also see Dorothea Salo's comments on one of Stevan's earlier posts on SWORD.

Peter Sefton, Potential projects: #2 Integrating ICE with the Open Journal Systems, ptsefton , January 6, 2009.  Excerpt: PS:  Also see our past posts on ICE.