This week on the web, a young patient’s update on life with cancer, open access news, Windows 8, and more…

Suleika Jaouad writes a poignant new update for her “Life, Interrupted” column about living with cancer on NY Times’ Well blog.

UCSF has announced an open access policy!

There is an excellent post on the BioMed Central Blog about the Open Access Petition on the We the People website.

The Windows 8 Release Preview is out…and there is lots of coverage. Here is some from the Washington Post.

Hack (Higher) Education reports that etextbook publisher Inkling has a new HTML5 app making their books available on the web.