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

Georgia Harper, Shouted in the marketplace: “Options for publishers, we got options, options, fresh options”, The Scholar’s Space, December 4, 2008.

Robin Peek, Bioline International Spreads Its Wings, a preprint of a column forthcoming in the January issue of Information Today .  Excerpt: Update (12/7/08).  Also see Heather Morrison's review of Bioline and its new funding model.

Matthew Cockerill, Latest Developments in Open Access, presented at Online Information (London, December 2-4, 2008).

JCB DataViewer is a new tool to supplement the Journal of Cell Biology.

See this recent announcement from CODATA, the Committee on Data for Science and Technology:

arXiv launched a new section on quantitative finance on December 1; see the announcement.

Yesterday the proposal to require OA for publicly-funded research ranked 16th on Obama CTO, the unofficial web site collecting recommendations for the Obama administration.  Today it ranks 14th.  The idea was posted to the site on November 15, and broke into the top 25 on December 4. Keep spreading the word.  The ranks are determined by user votes.

Two days ago the Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive) started uploading 100,000 images to Wikimedia Commons.  Each will stand under a CC-BY-SA license.  (Thanks to Klaus Graf.)

The ALPSP has released its comment its on the EU green paper, Copyright in the Knowledge Economy.

Kent Anderson, Are Publishers Anti-Publishing? Scholarly Kitchen , December 2, 2008.  Excerpt: See Kevin Smith's reply, What is “value” in publishing? Scholarly Communications @ Duke , December 5, 2008.