The European Legal e-Access Conference (Paris, December 10-12, 2008) is now underway.

John Wilbanks has posted his presentation, E-Research, Data Integration, from the Coalition for Networked Information fall meeting (Washington, DC, December 8-9, 2008).

The Universidad Complutense de Madrid has launched a portal to search OA public domain books from its library digitized by Google. According to the page, UCM is the first non-Anglo university to launch a partnership with Google Book Search.

Emma Nelms, QUT ePrints : Citation rate boost, Library-f-IT, December 10, 2008. See also our earlier anecdote on Frost.

Abstracts from the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (San Francisco, December 15-19, 2008) are now online.

New Social Inquiry is a new peer-reviewed OA journal edited by graduate students at Carleton University. The deadline for submissions to the first issue is January 19, 2009.

The Stanford Intellectual Property Litigation Clearinghouse is a new OA database by the Law, Science & Technology Program at Stanford Law School.

Charles Bailey has released a new version of his Google Book Search Bibliography.

The PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research) project has announced its upcoming calls for tender on research about OA. From the announcement: See also our past posts on PEER.

Open Government Records is a new application of Open Journal Systems to provide OA to freedom of information requests and responses in Canada.

Dorothea Salo, Addenda and power relations, Caveat Lector , December 9, 2008.