The Journal of the Short Story in English has gone online with Revues.org. The journal will have a delayed OA policy with a 2-year embargo. The journal has been in publication since 1983; backfiles to 1997 are currently available.

Pragmatics, the journal of the International Pragmatics Association, has adopted a delayed OA policy with a one-year embargo as of 2009.

Heather Morrison points out that OpenDOAR now lists 1,300 OA repositories, a 28% increase during 2008.

Carlo Vinicio Caballero, et al., La importancia del Acceso Abierto en la investigación biomédica y científica, Revista Colombiana de Reumatología, June 2008.

Simon Fodden, Annotated Civil Code, Slaw, January 17, 2009.

Alice Pawley, Open Access publishing at ScienceOnline 2009, Sciencewomen, January 17, 2009. Blog notes on ScienceOnline'09 (Research Triangle Park, N.C., January, 16-18, 2009). Update. See also the notes by Kevin Zelnio and Molly Keener. Update. See also the rest of Molly Keener's notes.

January 15 was the 8th birthday of Wikipedia. See Mike Linksvayer's comment at the Creative Commons blog.

The National Galleries of Scotland has joined The Commons on Flickr. See the January 14 announcement.

Last month (December 15, 2008) the Mellon Seminar in Digital Humanities at UCLA issued A Digital Humanities Manifesto.

Greyson at Social Justice Librarian responding to David Shumaker at The Embedded Librarian :

Stuart Lewis, DSpace at a third of a million items, Stuart Lewis' blog , January 19, 2009.