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

The presentations, audio, and video from Open-Access-Tage Berlin (Berlin, October 9-10, 2008) are now online.

The presentations from Putting African Journals On Line: Opportunities, Implications and Limits (Dakar, October 6-7, 2008) are now online.

Stevan Harnad, Elsevier Again Confirms Its Position on the Side of the Green OA Angels, Open Access Archivangelism , November 29, 2008. PS:  Stevan's support for Elsevier's green OA policy encountered some opposition in the AmSci OA Forum.  In his full post (of which this is just the summary) he reprints the opposing arguments and replies to them.

Ethics & Global Politics, an OA journal by Co-Action Publishing, has received grant funding from the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research and the Swedish Research Council. The grants will cover article-processing charges for 2009.

A new version of ticTOCs, an OA index and subscription service of journal tables of contents, has been released.

James Boyle, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, released November 17, 2008 by Yale University Press. Boyle is a professor at Duke Law School and chairman of Creative Commons. The book is also available OA as a CC-licensed download. See also our past posts on James Boyle.

The CiteSeerX project has released SeerSuite, a tool kit of software for digital libraries and academic search engines; see the announcement. SeerSuite is available gratis under the free and open source Apache License. See also our past posts on CiteSeerX (and its predecessor, CiteSeer) and ChemXSeer. Update. See also this article from Information Today.

Hindawi has announced the first members of its institutional membership program, announced in August of this year. Authors from member institutions won't pay any article processing charges for Hindawi's OA journals.

Laura Wimberley, Open Access Journals in the Developing World, apparently a pre-print, self-archived November 27, 2008.

The November-December issue of Science Editor is now online.