Jesse Dylan has made a two-minute OA video about Science Commons.

More from the 4th International Digital Curation Conference (Edinburgh, December 1-3, 2008): John Wilbanks, Radical Sharing: Transforming Science?, presentation Cameron Neylon, Quick update from International Digital Curation Conference, notes See also our previous post on the conference.

Digital NZ is a new project led by the National Library of New Zealand.

Cody Yantis, Open Access Initiatives: Emblems of the Present and Future of Russian Libraries, apparently a pre-print, December 4, 2008.

Heather Morrison, Scholarly society memberships: a cost-free way to support scholarly societies AND open access, The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, December 6, 2008.

Three digital humanities projects have been awarded grants through the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities/Department of Energy Humanities High Performance Computing program. The grants provide computer time on DOE's high performance machines, along with training and support. See the announcement by NEH's Brett Bobley.

Stevan Harnad, Which Green OA Mandate Is Optimal? Open Access Archivangelism , December 7, 2008.

The presentations from the CULIS 2008 meeting, Trends in Scholarly Communication (Copenhagen, December 1, 2008), are now online.

Carrie Peyton Dahlberg, Virus hunter looks to make more medical breakthroughs at UCSF, Sacramento Bee , December 7, 2008.  Excerpt: PS:  Also see our past posts on DeRisi's OA work.

Michael Lines reports that British Columbia will provide OA to its current legislation starting on January 1, 2009.

Open and Libraries Class Journal is the product of a class at San Jose State University.