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EOS has responded to two public consultations this month - the European Commission's consultation on its strategy for EU2020 ('a smarter, greener social market') and the US White House Office of Science & Technology Policy's Public Access Policy Forum.

The EOS Board welcomes a new member, Professor Martin Hall. Professor Hall is Vice Chancellor at Salford University in the United Kingdom He took up his current post in 2009 after forging a distinguished academic career in archaeology and social sciences in South Africa.

The faculty at Oberlin College have unanimously endorsed a resolution to make their outputs openly available on the Web.

EOS Board member Tom Cochrane has made available an account of his Open Access policy implementation at QUT and its effects on research in that university.

The EPSRC, the UK's largest research council, has published a study it commissioned on the impact of the work it funds.

The European Commission hosted a large conference in Brussels this week on the future of science in Europe. Four members of the EOS Board were invited to participate in a session to discuss Open Access and preservation policies to strengthen science in the European Research Area.

Sijbolt Noorda has written about Open Access for the Dutch DANS (Data Archiving and Networked Services) Open Data Speakers' Corner, established for Open Access Week.

This coming week is international Open Access Week. Events and celebrations will be taking place around the world. EOS will be playing its part at a large conference hosted by the European Commission in Brussels.

The worldwide tally of Open Access mandatory policies reached the milestone of 100 when on Friday 16 October the University of Salford announced its policy, which will be implemented from January 2010.

John Willinsky, EOS Board member, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.