- The German OA petition failed to reach the 50,000 signatures (Google translation) which would entitle it to public discussion in the Bundestag Petition Committee. The committee could choose to discuss it anyway.
- A letter to Nature describes the state of data sharing in natural history. (The letter is not OA, at least so far.)
- The Public Knowledge Project posted another case study of a use of its Open Journal Systems publishing software.
- Lawrence Lessig makes a pitch for donating to Creative Commons’ year-end fundraising campaign.