CERN is looking to fill a fellowship on its SOAP (Study of Open Access Publishing) project.  (Thanks to Charles Bailey.)

Autism Speaks (AS) has adopted an OA mandate for AS-funded research.  From today’s announcement: Comment. Kudos to AS.  This is not just another funder mandate.  AS is primarily a non-profit advocacy organization, not a foundation, but it uses some of the money it raises to fund research on autism.

The Center For Teaching And Learning at Bowling Green State University has posted a video and blog notes on Michael Carroll's public talk from October 31, Copyright and Your Right to Use and Share Your Scholarly Materials.

From Antony Williams:

Peter Binfield, Interview with PLoS ONE academic editor, Public Library of Science blog, November 6, 2008. An interview with Ivan Baxter, PLoS ONE Section Editor for plant biology.

Les Carr, Someone Stop Me!, RepositoryMan, November 11, 2008.

A few bloggers have posted comments on Digital Heritage in the New Knowledge Environment: Shared Spaces & Open Paths to Cultural Content (Athens, October 30-November 2, 2008): Eric Kansa, Digital Challenges: Notes from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture’s Recent Conference, Digging Digitally, November 11, 2008. Leif Isaksen, Strictly Platonic, Archaetech, November 11, 2008.

Nick Sheppard, Repository Day, Repository News, November 11, 2008. Blog notes on workshops introducing the IR for Leeds Metropolitan University.

The Office of Technology Assessment Archive, launched in June 2008 by the Federation of American Scientists, contains all the formally issued reports of the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, as well as many background papers and contractor papers. The reports cover various scientific and technical policy issues considered by the U.S. Congress from 1972 to 1995.

Primary Research Group, The International Survey of Library & Museum Digitization Projects, report, August 2008.

Jennifer Crow, Open Access and Scholarly Communication, apparently a pre-print, deposited November 12, 2008.