Christopher Kelty, Two Bits at Six Months, Savage Minds , January 24, 2009.  Excerpt: PS:  Also see our past posts on Kelty.

Libertarian Papers is a new peer-reviewed OA journal of libertarian thought.  The inaugural issue from January 2009 is now online.  (Thanks to Kimmo Kuusela.)

Clara López Guzmán and 19 co-authors, 3R-Red de Repositorios Universitarios de Recursos Digitales : informe de la etapa 3: desarrollo del sistema y de aplicaciones, an unpublished September 2007 report from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), self-archived January 21, 2009.

India has launched the beta edition of Agropedia, a publicly-funded, wiki-based repository of Indian agricultural research.  From the site: For more details, see M. Sreelata's article in SciDev.Net, India debuts 'agricultural Wikipedia', January 21, 2009.

A few updates on U.S. President Barack Obama's first days in office: One of the last updates to Change.gov, Obama's transition site, was a video about the transition's Technology, Innovation and Government Reform working group, which discusses OA to public sector information and alludes favorably to the open data aspects of the Human Genome Project.

The Journal of the National Medical Association has brought its backfiles to 1909 OA on PubMedCentral. The journal was previously OA, but the journal's site only provides backfiles to 2008.

Andrew D. Johnson and Christopher J. O'Donnell, An Open Access Database of Genome-wide Association Results, BMC Medical Genetics, January 22, 2009. Abstract: Comment. The datasets compiled by the researchers is provided in links at the end of the article.

Academic Journals has a large number of new and planned OA journals listed on its Web site. Journals are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License, but authors transfer copyright to the publisher. The article-processing charge appears to be $550 at each journal, subject to waiver.

The World Health Organization has released detailed cost estimates and time frames for implementing its Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property. For background, see posts at IP Watch or Knowledge Ecology International. From IP Watch: Funding for the OA element is included with costs to establish public health libraries;

The Afghanistan Analyst hosts OA theses and dissertations about Afghanistan.

Zhen Lei, Rakhi Juneja, and Brian D Wright, Patents versus patenting: implications of intellectual property protection for biological research, Nature Biotechnology , 27 (2009) pp. 36-40.  (Thanks to Michael Geist.)  Excerpt Also see the Supplementary information at the journal web site.