Jean-Gabriel Bankier, Perceptions of Developing Trends in Repositories, report, undated but recent. See also the December 4 announcement.

Educational Designer is a new peer-reviewed OA journal published by the International Society for Design and Development in Education.  The inaugural issue (September 2008) is now online.

Jonas Svensson and Stefan Arvidsson, Kampen mot kopiering dömd att misslyckas, Sveriges universitetslärar-förbund [ Swedish Association of University Teachers ], 19-08.  Undated.

Søren Sandfeld Jakobsen and four co-authors, Comments on the Commission's Green Paper on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy, self-archived December 2, 2008.  (Thanks to Charles Bailey.)  The authors are members of the Research Group on ICT & Innovation, Law Department, Copenhagen Business School.

Stevan Harnad, Weak and Strong OA Mandates: Don't Let the Best Be the Enemy of the Good, Open Access Archivangelism , December 3, 2008.

Today the proposal to require OA for publicly-funded research broke into the top 25 on Obama CTO, the unofficial web site collecting recommendations for the Obama administration.  It now appears on the front page, where it should attract even more attention and votes.  If you haven't yet voted or spread the word, please do.  Thanks for your support.

Kurt H. Albertine and three co-authors, Open Access: AR is Fully Compliant with Mandates from NIH and Other Funding Agencies, Anatomical Record , December 2008.  An editorial.  Not even an abstract is free online, at least so far.

Christian Zimmermann, RePEc in November 2008, The RePEc Blog, December 2, 2008.

The International Journal of Stem Cells launched in November 2008. The inaugural issue's articles are OA. The site doesn't mention plans for either OA or subscriptions. Jim Till notes that, via email, the editor-in-chief says "We will provide PDF version of articles with no charge for a while".

Bill Hooker, Science 2.0, presentation at Pacific University, September 9, 2008. See the blog post, slides or video.

Japan's Digital Repository Federation signed a Memorandum of Agreement with DRIVER (Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research).