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

The proposal to require OA for publicly-funded research is now ranked 13th on Obama CTO, the unofficial web site collecting recommendations for the Obama administration, up one rank from Saturday.  It just passed the proposal to make voting machines and their software publicly-owned and transparent, an idea with a wider constituency than OA.

DINI (Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerkinformation) has certified SerWisS, the institutional repository at Fachhochschule Hannover. Read the announcement in German or Google's English.

SAGE has released Meeting the challenges: societies and scholarly communication (November 2008), the results of a survey it launched in September. See esp. Section 3.2.6 on Open Access: Comment .  The report does not indicate what percentage of the responding societies publish OA journals.  Hence, it's hard to tell how well the respondents represent the range of societies on OA issues.

Maurilio De Felice and four co-authors, The scientific impact of microbial cell factories, Microbial Cell Factories , December 1, 2008 (provisional PDF).  An editorial.

Alnawaz Rehemtulla, Neoplasia: The Second Decade, Neoplasia , December 2008.  An editorial.

The Repositories Support Project has released two new briefing papers, on SWORD and repository requirements.

The presentations from the PALINET 2008 Conference (Philadelphia, October 27-28, 2008) are now online.

The abstracts from Electronic Resources & Libraries (Los Angeles, February 9-12, 2009) are now online.

Arias Montano is the new IR at the Universidad de Huelva.

The January issue of Learned Publishing is now online. See especially these articles: Kate Wittenberg, The Gutenberg-e project: opportunities and challenges in publishing born-digital monographs (only an abstract is OA, at least so far;