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

The Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems is a new peer-reviewed OA journal published by the Institute of Global Environment and Society. The journal operates a companion forum, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems - Discussion, for posting and discussing papers before they have undergone peer review. Both are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Hans-Michael Müller, et al., Textpresso for Neuroscience: Searching the Full Text of Thousands of Neuroscience Research Papers, Neuroinformatics, October 24, 2008. Abstract: See also our past posts on Textpresso.

The Sunlight Foundation has posted a set of recommendations from its staff to the incoming Obama presidential administration, dated November 6, 2008:

Les Carr suggests that researchers can use their IR's RSS feed of their latest publications by embedding it elsewhere, such as with a service like Pageflakes. See his example.

Couperin, a consortium of French higher education and research institutions, has launched a portal of information about open archives and OA (in French). The site was prepared by Couperin's open access working group.

Kim Plummer, Conference Discusses Copyright Laws, The New Paltz Oracle, November 6, 2008.

The Directory of Open Access Journals has updated its new titles page, adding RSS feeds of recent additions to the directory. The feature was added on October 22, 2008. Feeds are available for journals added in the last 24 hours, last 7 days, or last 30 days. See also our past post on DOAJ's revamp of the new titles page earlier this year, or all past posts on the DOAJ.

Libraries and Publishing 3.0: Student Views from the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, The University of British Columbia is a series published by the Canadian Association of Special Libraries and Information Services in October 2008.

HathiTrust has launched a beta feature of public search functionality of its collections. See the November 4 blog post by Chris Powell. See also our past posts on HathiTrust.

Jane Hutton, Academic Libraries as Digital Gateways: Linking Students to the Burgeoning Wealth of Open Online Collections, Journal of Library Administration, October 3, 2008. Only this abstract is free online, at least so far: See also the author's presentation and handout on the same topic at the Off-Campus Library Services Conference (Salt Lake City, April 23-25, 2008).