The Journal of Oral Microbiology is a new peer-reviewed OA journal from Co-Action Publishing.  For more detail, see today's press release or Ingar Olsen's editorial in the inaugural issue.

AccessEcon is a new OA portal for the field of economics, launched January 1, 2009.  (Thanks to Mike Carroll.)  From the home page: From the mission statement: From the page of services and costs: Also see the co-founders' undated article (apparently a preprint), providing more of the background and rationale.

Michael Nielsen, Doing science online, Michael Nielsen, January 26, 2009; presented at Quantum Information Processing 2009 (Santa Fe, January 12-16, 2009).

The E-Science Talking Points for ARL Deans and Directors from October 2008, which cover OA and open data in Point 8, now carry a CC-BY-NC-SA license.  If you weren't already spreading them around, start now.

Noam Cohen, Historical Photos in Web Archives Gain Vivid New Lives, New York Times, January 18, 2009. Jeanne Kramer-Smyth, German Federal Archives, Crowdsourcing & the Wikimedia Commons, Spellbound Blog, January 26, 2009.

Peter Hirtle, Recent News on Open Access to Archives, LibraryLaw Blog, January 26, 2009. (Thanks to Garrett Eastman.) See also our past post on the Max Planck Institute recommendations.

Andrew Su has posted a spreadsheet comparing various wikis in biology and related fields, including topical focus, number of recent edits and number of recent editors. See also the related FriendFeed discussion.

SURFshare has funded 12 projects for the online dissemination of knowledge:

The Wheeler Declaration on open universities has been translated into Polish.

Biblioteca Digital Camões has provided OA to the full run (1887-1943) of Revista Lusitana.  Read the details in Portuguese or Google's English.  (Thanks to Klaus Graf.)  This is at least gratis OA.  I can't find any licensing information on the scanned articles.

Leigh Holmwood, BBC to put nation's oil paintings online, The Guardian , January 28, 2009.