The International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education is a new peer-reviewed OA journal.  The inaugural issue (October 2008) is now online.

Fair Copyright in Research Works Act, The Exchange Online: The Newsletter of the Association of American University Presses , November 4, 2008.  Excerpt: Comments See my blog comments on the AAUP letter, my comments on a subsequent AAUP clarification, and my full-length critique of the Conyers bill (in SOAN for October 2008).

Richard Poynder, The Open Access Interviews: Dove Medical Press, Open and Shut? November 6, 2008.  An interview with Tim Hill, Publisher of Dove Medical Press, an OA publisher based in Auckland, New Zealand.  The lengthy introduction is a good primer on the suspicions that some OA publishers are cutting corners and giving OA journals a bad name.

Seth Finkelstein, Google's copyright war will have open access advocates up in arms, The Guardian , November 6, 2008.  Excerpt: Comments OK, I'm an OA advocate, and this may be a good time to add some second thoughts to my first impressions of the settlement.  Am I up in arms?  I'm deeply disappointed that Google didn't litigate the fair-use claim to the end.  I have four reasons:

Kristin Boice, Open Access, Libraries, and the Future of Scholarly Publishing, a preprint self-archived November 5, 2008.

Dublin City University officially launched its institutional repository, DORAS (DCU Online Research Access Service).

Leslie Chan, Open Access Scholarship and Teaching: Why Should it Matter to You?  A talk at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the U of Toronto, November 5, 2008.  See the 53 minute video and slides.

Mike Rossner, Heather Joseph: Getting the message across, The Journal of Cell Biology, November 3, 2008. An interview with Heather Joseph, executive director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition.

Collaborative Librarianship is a forthcoming peer-reviewed OA journal. The journal is published by the Colorado Academic Library Consortium, the Colorado Library Consortium, the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, Regis University, and the University of Denver.

Andrew Plemmons Pratt, Historical Election Maps and Open Mapping Research, Science Progress, November 4, 2008.

Barack Obama's presidential campaign released a video on November 2 detailing his plans for technology policy. The short video includes a mention of OA to government data. The video seems to be compiled of excerpts from Obama's talk at Google headquarters in November 2007.