Twidox launches private beta, CC blog , November 17, 2008.  Excerpt: PS:  Also see our past posts on Twidox.

Matthew Elbeck and Jean Mandernach, Expanding the value of scholarly, open access e-journals, Library & Information Science Research , December 2008.

Today's Nepal News has a report on the conference, Linking Geodata with Biodiversity Information in the Himalayas (Kathmandu, November 15-16, 2008).

The Journal of the Polynesian Society has provided OA to the first 60 years of its 100+ year backrun.

The November/December 2008 issue of D-Lib is now available. See especially these articles: Andreas Aschenbrenner, et al., The Future of Repositories?

Joanna Adcock and Edward Fottrell, The North-South information highway: case studies of publication access among health researchers in resource-poor countries, Global Health Action, November 13, 2008.

Jean-Claude Bradley, From ONS to Peer Review: our JoVE Article is Published, Useful Chemistry, November 13, 2008.

Open Access @ OISE is a discussion list for students, faculty, and staff at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.

DSpace has released a brief introductory video to its repository software. See the November 5 announcement.

Cornelius Puschmann has posted a round-up of blog notes on the Berlin 6 Conference (Düsseldorf, November 11-13, 2008). See especially the posts by Kaitlin Thaney (which we posted previously), Cornelius Puschmann, Mark Liberman, and Robert Forkel.

The blog Savage Minds is now accepting votes for the best OA content in anthropology, with categories for best blog, best journal, and best digital miscellany. (We previously posted the call for nominations.) Winners will be announced at the American Anthropological Association conference this weekend.