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).
ELIG sets learning priorities in Europe for 2009, a press release on the annual meeting of the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG), November 7, 2008. (Thanks to Subbiah Arunachalam.)
Hindawi Announces its Country Web Pages, press release, posted to SPARC-OAForum on November 6, 2008. See also our past posts on Hindawi's institutional pages (1, 2).
Eric Frank and David Wiley, Redefining 'Open Book' for the 21st Century, Community College Week Fall 2008 Technology Supplement, October 20, 2008. Discusses particularly Flat World Knowledge. (Thanks to Open Education News.) See also our past posts on Flat World Knowledge.
Bernd Hartmann and Felix Jansen, Open Content – Open Access: Freie Inhalte als Herausforderung für Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Politik, FAZIT Forschung , vol. 16. Undated but apparently recent. An overview of the current state of open content and open access, with special attention to the University of Konstanz. Because this is a PDF, I can't link to a machine translation.
Jürgen Pfeifle, Open Content: Eine Frage des Geschäftsmodells, Do It.Online , November 5, 2008. An intro to several related openness movements, with a few paragraphs on OA research. Read it in German or Google's English.
Les Carr points out that an RSS feed of the most recent items deposited in a repository can be embedded somewhere else, such as a widget for a blog.
Virginia Barbour, New version of the Declaration of Helsinki, Public Library of Science blog, November 5, 2008. Update. See also this post at the BioMed Central blog.
Michelle Arkin and James McKerrow, Low-Hanging Fruit: An Anti-Parasitic Drug Database, Public Library of Science blog, October 28, 2008.
The Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec's annual report for fiscal year 2007-08, released on July 30, 2008, contains a description of its digitization activities.
Christian Zimmermann, RePEc in October 2008, The RePEc blog, November 5, 2008.