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

Genome Medicine is a new peer-reviewed OA journal published by BioMed Central. See the November 12 announcement. The article-processing charge is £1350 (€1660, $2105), subject to discounts and waivers. Authors retain copyright and articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Abstracts for some articles to be published in the first issue are now available.

Kaitlin Thaney, Data sharing in Epidemiology, sniffing the beaker, October 10, 2008.

Claudia S. has blogged some notes (in Romanian) on the Open Access Pre-Conference to the Globalization and Management of Information Resources conference (Sofia, November 11, 2008).  Read her notes in the original or in Google's English.

Andrew Charlesworth and five co-authors, Feasibility study into approaches to improve the consistency with which repositories share material, JISC , November 7, 2008.

Michael Brunger on OA in atomic physics, a 5 minute YouTube video.

Kevin Donovan, Publishers Seek to Limit Universities’ Fair Use, Students for Free Culture blog, November 11, 2008. Discusses the publisher lawsuit against Georgia State and describes OA as among the possible responses.

Scott Leslie, Planning to Share versus Just Sharing, EdTechPost, November 8, 2008. (Thanks to Dorothea Salo and David Wiley;

Carl Lagoze, et al., A Web-Based Resource Model for eScience: Object Reuse & Exchange, preprint of a paper for the 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop (Indianapolis, December 7-9, 2008), deposited on November 4, 2008.

Andrew Waller and Heather Morrison, A Leading-Edge Position Statement on Open Access + Ongoing Interest in OA at CLA, Feliciter 54(5), deposited on November 11, 2008.

Nicole Carpenter, Tune It Up: Creating and Maintaining the Institutional Repository Revolution, deposited November 11, 2008. Student paper for a class at the School of Library and Information Science, San Jose State University.