The Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries's November 2008 issue is a theme issue on "Open Access: today and tomorrow". See these articles on OA: P. Morgan, Open Data: the elephant in the room N. Pinhas, Open Access for health and medicine in France P. De Castro, et al., The open access policy of the Italian National Institute of Health: steps forward to innovative publishing habits Yvonne Hultman Özek, Report

The DRIVER project has launched a mentor service; see also the announcement.

Laura Mandell, Digital Humanities, Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies, October 14, 2008.

Kay Mathiesen, Access to Information as a Human Right, working paper, September 7, 2008.

Here are some more comments from the press and blogosphere on the Google-Publisher settlement.  This is my fifth collection and will be the last, at least until there's a new development.  Also see collections 1, 2, 3, and 4. From Andrew Albanese in Library Journal : From Nate Anderson in Ars Technica : From Jonathan Band and the ARL in A Guide for the Perplexed:

biblios.net is a recently-launched service by LibLime, billed as "the world's largest database of freely-licensed library records". (Thanks to Jacob Glenn.)

The public comment period on the EU green paper, Copyright in the Knowledge Economy, expired yesterday.  I've posted a series of comments already (1, 2, 3, 4).

Michael Banks, The Price of Free Papers, Physics World , December 2008.  Not even an abstract is free online, at least so far.  The journal provides no deep link to the article, so I'm linking to the TOC.  Excerpt: Comments With one exception, this is a good survey of gold OA in physics.

In July, Canada's National Film Board opened a beta site with video from NFB-funded films, many in full length. (Thanks to Blogue du GTA.) Update (1/26/08). It's now out of beta and part of the main NFB site; see this CBC story. See also NFB's YouTube channel.

Interchange: The Promise of Digital History, Journal of American History, September 2008. Interview with a group of historians.

Rachel Breen, Towards a Collective Understanding of Art As a Commons, On The Commons , November 26, 2008.