New York Law School and HIFA2105 launch project on health information and human rights, press release, December 10, 2008.

Ryan Singel, Online Rebel Publishes Millions of Dollars in U.S. Court Records for Free, Wired, December 12, 2008. A profile of Public.Resource.Org's Carl Malamud and the Public Access to Court Electronic Records program. See also our past posts on PRO and on PACER.

Antony Williams, Qualifying Online Information Resources for Chemists, presented at Making the Web Work for Science: The Impact of e-Science and the Cyber-Infrastructure (Washington, DC, December 8, 2008). See also Williams' blog post:

DSpace announced on December 9 that there are now more than 500 DSpace-based repositories worldwide, from 60 different countries.

Andrew Garton, Growing the Global Information Commons, report for the Association for Progressive Communications. A draft in progress. From the introduction: Comment. The draft is on a wiki, and is undergoing recent editing, but I'm not sure if it's open for others to contribute. See also our past posts on the Association for Progressive Communications.

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama this week announced his selection for Secretary of Energy, physicist Steven Chu. Being a physicist, it might come as little surprise that Chu has a number of publications OA in arXiv -- 11, to be specific.

The Greenstone digital library software has received a $50,000 prize from the Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration. See also our past posts on Greenstone.

Australia's Department of Broadband, Communications and Digital Economy has launched a Digital Economy Future Directions blog which is discussing, among other topics, OA to public sector information.

Antony Williams, Announcing the ChemSpider Journal of Chemistry, ChemSpider Blog, December 12, 2008.

Stijn Hoorens, et al., Embracing the future: Embedding digital repositories in the University of London, report for the SHERPA-LEAP Consortium, 2008. See also the shorter companion paper.

A new issue of Liber Quarterly is now available. See especially: Ricky Erway, Supply and Demand: Special Collections and Digitisation Paul Ayris, The European Digital Information Landscape: How Can LIBER Contribute?