Simon Chester, A New Model for Legal Publishing, Slaw.ca , December 15, 2008.

Dave Pattern, Free book usage data from the University of Huddersfield, "Self-plagiarism is style", December 12, 2008.

Dave Bacon has posted a letter from the future, to be sent back in time:

Barbara Fister, Renting Keys to Walled Gardens, ACRLog, December 14, 2008.

The Quantitative Archaeology Wiki has posted the dataset from the textbook Digging Numbers by Mike Fletcher and Gary Lock, along with a tutorial of using the statistical software R to analyze the data.

Liz Allen, PLoS ONE @ Two - second birthday synchroblogging competition, Public Library of Science blog, December 9, 2008.

Michelle Springer, et al., For the Common Good: The Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Project, report, October 30, 2008. A shorter report summary is also available.

Antony Williams, The Confusion of ‘Pedias and the Dependence on Wikipedia, ChemSpider Blog, December 11, 2008. Describes and compares the chemistry functions on Wikipedia, WiChempedia, and Chempedia.

Gradhiva, a French journal of anthropology and museology in publication since 1986, has gone online with the Revues.org platform. Published by the Musée du quai Branly, issues starting with 2005 are now online, with a 3-year moving wall for OA. (Thanks to CLEO.) Update: Updated to clarify the policy is a 3-year moving wall, i.e. issues 3 years old or older will be OA.

DAPHNE (Données en Archéologie, Préhistoire et Histoire sur le NEt - Data in Archeology, Prehistory and History on the NEt) is a new OA index of metadata, launched in November 2008. See also the press release by INIST.

Stuart Lewis and Les Carr have discovered that only 8 of the 26 UK DSpace repositories listed in ROAR have working RSS feeds. Lewis and Carr are trying aggregate all the world's repository feeds.  Lewis: If you're a DSpace repository manager, Lewis' post explains how to activate the feed.