Gideon Burton has started a blog which he hopes will become a book on new media in academic publishing.

Suresh K. Chauhan, Institutional Repositories in India, Key 2 Information , December 28, 2008.  Excerpt: PS:  Chauhan lists 21 repositories with a paragraph of annotation on each one.

Tom Roper, Health Information And Libraries Journal's Silver Jubilee, Tom Roper's Weblog , Novemer 27, 2008.  Excerpt: Graham Walton, editor of HILJ, responded to Roper's post in the comment section: Ben Toth responded to Walton's comment briefly on Roper's blog and at greater length on his own blog.  From the latter:

LUNA Commons is a new portal of OA digital collections built with LUNA's Insight Software. There are more than 150,000 items among them.

The Library of Congress has asked Ed Summers to take down his OA Library of Congress Subject Headings linked data service. See Summers' blog post, or comments by Richard Wallis or Andy Powell. In his post, Summers hints that the LOC is still considering offering a similar service in the future.

Sally Rumsey, Towards a Knowledge Lifecycle: Populating Repositories “Upstream”, HatCheck Newsletter, December 16, 2008.

The CLEO blog has a list of 22 journals recently accepted to the Revues.org platform. Another 16 journals are listed as "coming soon" on revues.org. Most, if not all, will offer either immediate or delayed OA. Some journals may have previously been available online, while others were not.

Zaguán is the IR for the University of Zaragoza, launched in 2008.

@tic is a new peer-reviewed OA journal published by the Universitat de València. Submissions are accepted in Catalan, Spanish, and English. The journal is published under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license. The inaugural issue is now available. See also the journal's blog.

Barbara A. Epstein, Open Access: Implications for Evidence-based Practice, Journal of Emergency Nursing, December 2008.

The International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art (RIHA) adopted a Resolution on Copyright on November 8, 2008.  Excerpt: Thanks to Klaus Graf for the alert and for collecting together links to similar statements and links more generally to the "art history image permission crisis".  Also see our own past posts on permission barriers in art history.