Andrew Noyes, Conyers To Abolish IP Subcommittee, CongressDaily , November 12, 2008.  (Thanks to Kara Malenfant.)  Only the first two paragraphs are free online: Comment. What's the OA connection?  The Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property held the September hearing on the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act (a.k.a. Conyers bill).

Lund University gives its grad students the choice whether to make their dissertation OA.  Of the 350 dissertations deposited in the Lund IR in 2008, 152 or 43% are OA.  (Thanks to Klaus Graf.) Update .  While exploring the Lund Libraries pages on OA, I found this 10 question quiz.  Test yourself.  How much do you really know about OA?  If you're reading this blog, you ought to pass.

Sarah F. Gold, Academic Publishers Debate The Digital Future, Publishers Weekly , November 24, 2008.

Remember that comments on the EU green paper, Copyright in the Knowledge Economy, are due on November 30.  One of the questions raised in the paper --Question 19, quoted below-- has a strong OA connection. I excerpted two public responses yesterday.

Hélène Bosc, Le droit des chercheurs à mettre leurs résultats de recherche en libre accès : appropriation des archives ouvertes par différentes communautés dans le monde [ Researchers' Right to Self-Archive Their Articles In Open Access Repositories: Evolving Policy Worldwide ], a preprint self-archived November 22, 2008.

Dorothea Salo, Home-grown versus outsourced repository software, Caveat Lector , November 24, 2008.

Fernando César Lima Leite, Curso sobre diretrizes para a construção de repositórios institucionais de acesso aberto à informação científica, presented at Seminário Nacional de Bibliotecas Universitárias (São Paulo, November 10-14, 2008). English abstract:

Simone da Rocha Weitzel, et al., E-LIS: um repositório digital para a biblioteconomia e ciência da informação no Brasil, presented at Seminário Nacional de Bibliotecas Universitárias (São Paulo, November 10-14, 2008). English abstract:

The new issue of The Electronic Library is now available.

Ryan Randall, et al., The Next Generation of Academics: A Report on a Study Conducted at the University of Rochester, report, September 17, 2008. (Thanks to Charles Bailey.) Abstract: See also our past post on the study.

The new issue of Online Information Review is now available. See especially: Michael Norris, et al., Finding open access articles using Google, Google Scholar, OAIster and OpenDOAR (only the abstract is OA, at least so far) Cecilia Penzhorn, review, Open Access to Knowledge and Information: Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives;