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.

‘No Action, But Rhetoric’, The Morung Express, November 8, 2008.

Stian Haklev, What’s happening with OpenLibrary and OCA, Random Stuff that Matters, November 9, 2008. Blog notes on the Internet Archive / Open Content Alliance workshop (San Francisco, October 27-28, 2008). See also our earlier post of blog notes from this workshop.

Laura Dewis, Open Everything, Open Air, November 7, 2008. (Thanks to Open Education News.) See also our past post on the Open Everything events.

Sharing images, JISC Information Environment Team, November 9, 2008.

Charles Arthur, Plenty of ideas for freeing government data ... and finding a loo, The Guardian, November 6, 2008. See also the related post on the Free Our Data blog. See also our earlier post on the contest, or all past posts on the Free Our Data campaign.

Neil Godfrey, INFORMAL comparison of some institutional repository solutions, Metalogger, October 19, 2008.

NEI Releases Complete Data from Age-Related Eye Disease Study, press release, November 10, 2008. See also our past posts on dbGaP.

Anita Palepu, Open Medicine: a peer-reviewed, independent, open-access general medical journal, presentation at the University of British Columbia, October 14, 2008. Slides and an audio recording. (Thanks to the Open Medicine Blog.) Abstract: See also our past posts about Open Medicine and about Open Access Day.

The Open Content Alliance posted a list on November 9, 2008 of the 51 institutions which recently joined as contributors. Thirty-six of the new institutions are members through the PALINET or CARLI consortia. See also our past post on PALINET's digitization initiative or all past posts on the Open Content Alliance.

David W. Moody, Free Culture and the Factors that Led to its Move to Regain the Commons, self-archived on November 9, 2008. A preprint.