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.

Kaitlin Thaney has posted several notes on the Berlin 6 Conference (Düsseldorf, November 11-13, 2008). Posts so far: Open Access and Franz Kafka Tony Hey (MSR) on e-science and OA New Modes of Scholarly Communication: Blogs, Wikis and Web 2.0 A word from the European Commission - Berlin 6 Update. More: OA and Open Standards - Berlin 6 OA and the Role of Societies - Berlin 6 Philippe Aigrain on OA - Berlin 6 Cost and Benefits

JISC, Armistice Day anniversary marked by launch of Great War Archive, press release, November 11, 2008.

Research and Markets, The Survey of Academic & Research Library Journal Purchasing Practices, report, November 2008.

Anthropology Now is a new magazine for lay readers.   (Thanks to anthropologi.info.)  From the editorial in the inaugural issue: Comment .  I'm guessing that this is OA, but I wish I could be sure.  At the moment, all the articles are at least gratis OA.  (I couldn't find any licensing information.)  The excerpt from the editorial suggests a commitment to OA.

The Wellcome Trust has released the first batch of 60+ OA films from the Wellcome Film Digitisation project.  Each film has an CC-BY-NC licence.

Gary Rodrigues is calling for OA to the McGill Guide (a.k.a. Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation).

The Euroscience Open Access Group has been discussing how the laws of different European countries accommodate OA.

The Swiss Institute of Particle Physics (CHIPP) has joined the CERN SCOAP3 project.

Grant Funding Opportunities, JISC Information Environment Team, November 10, 2008.

Rice-African partnership is open-education blockbuster, press release, November 10, 2008. (Thanks to itnewsafrica.com.) See also our past post on Siyavula or our past posts on Connexions.