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.

Rice University has created a Wireless Open-Access Research Platform (WARP).  This is a wireless platform, OA in the sense that it's extensible and programmable.  It's a "research platform" in the sense (apparently) that it's an experiment for teaching and learning, although it's actually in use at more than two dozen universities and companies around the world.  All its hardware and software documents are OA in our sense.

Germany's Digital Peer Publishing (DiPP) program has launched version 3.0 of its Digital Peer Publishing license.

Twenty-five years' worth of theses from Mahatma Gandhi University will become OA tomorrow.

Munger Africana Library Notes (MALN) is a new OA collection within Caltech's Collection of Open Digital Archives (CODA).

Nancy L. Maron and K. Kirby Smith, Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication, ARL , November 2008.  Excerpt: Also see the ARL's searchable, OA collection of the examples gathered during the study.  The ARL released two announcements, both dated today (1, 2).

Guy Pessach, (Networked) Memory Institutions: Social Remembering, Privatization and its Discontents, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal , April 2, 2008.

Jeffrey J. Erwin, Copyright and the Digital Library, a preprint self-archived November 2, 2008.

Andy Powell, Some (more) thoughts on repositories, eFoundations, November 7, 2008.

Molly Kleinman, The beauty of "Some Rights Reserved": Introducing Creative Commons to librarians, faculty, and students, College & Research Libraries News, November 2008.

Here are some more comments from the press and blogosphere on the Google-Publisher settlement.  (This is my fourth collection;