Peter Hirtle, When is a published work not a publication? Library Law Blog , January 4, 2009.

eMJA, the online edition of the TA Medical Journal of Australia , is retreating from OA.  From the announcement: From Martin B. Van Der Weyden's editorial in the January 2009 issue: Thanks to David More for the alert and this comment: PS:  SHERPA has no info on whether MJA or eMJA has a green policy on OA archiving.  The MJA instructions for authors page suggests not:

The Journal of Science Communication has adopted the CC-NC-ND license, starting with the December 2008 issue.  Previously, the journal was OA but didn't use an open license.

Stevan Harnad, Comparing Physicists' Central and Institutional Self-archiving Practices at Southampton, Open Access Archivangelism , January 5, 2009. Update (1/6/08).

Catherine Saez, Project Underway To Convert High Energy Physics Literature To Open Access, Intellectual Property Watch , January 5, 2009.  Excerpt: Update (1/7/09). Also see Stefan Krempl's overview of SCOAP3 in the January 6 Heise Online, in German or Google's English.

SHERPA has made two changes to its list of publishers "allow[ing] authors to deposit the publisher version or PDF of their article in an Institutional Repository, without fee or an embargo." Dropped:  Psychopharmacology & Biological Narcology Added:

Unearthed Outdoors has released an OA, CC Attribution-licensed version of its dataset of earth satellite imagery.

The Bernard Becker Medical Library at the Washington University School of Medicine has posted a flowchart on How to Demonstrate Compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy. The process is specific to WU but could serve as an example for other institutions.

Dorothea Salo, Name authority control in institutional repositories, Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, forthcoming in April 2009; self-deposited January 2, 2009.

Nicholas Tomaiuolo, U-Content: Project Gutenberg, Me, and You, Searcher, January 2009. A first-person tale of preparing submissions for Project Gutenberg and an interview with PG founder Michael Hart.

Université de Liège has adopted an OA mandate.  (Thanks to Stevan Harnad.)   Bernard Rentier, the Rector at Liège, has posted an English translation of his November memo to the Liège faculty on the AmSci OA Forum.  Excerpt: Comments This is an excellent policy.