Christian Zimmermann, RePEc in October 2008, The RePEc blog, November 5, 2008.

PLATFORM: Journal of Media and Communication is a forthcoming OA journal edited by graduate students in the Media and Communications Program at the University of Melbourne.

Using Digital Collections Workshop Attracts Advocates for Open Access, Open Content Alliance blog, November 1, 2008.

Jonathan Gray, After the Workshop on Public Information, Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog, November 4, 2008. Blog notes on the Workshop on Finding and Re-using Public Information (London, November 1, 2008.) See also our past posts about CKAN.

Amsterdam Law Forum is a new OA journal published (in English) by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam library. Like American law reviews, ALF is student-edited. The inaugural issue is now available.

Manuela Palafox, El Archivo Institucional E-Prints Complutense al servicio de la difusión y preservación de la investigación de la UCM, presented at Depósitos Digitales Depósitos Digitales y Acceso Abierto en Bibliotecas Universitarias (Murcia, Spain, December 3-4, 2007). (Thanks to Recursos Bibliotecarios.) English abstract:

Dorothea Salo, Small institutions and repositories, Caveat Lector, November 3, 2008.

Pathogenetics is a new peer-reviewed OA journal published by BioMed Central on the pathogenesis of genetic diseases, phenotypes and traits. See the November 3 announcement. The inaugural editorial is now available. Authors retain copyright and articles are available under the Creative Commons Attribution License. The article-processing charge is £1180 (€1485, $1900).

La Criée : périodiques en ligne is a blog devoted to (OA and TA) online journals.  (Thanks to Klaus Graf.)  Each post is a basic catalog entry:  title, short description, ISSN, language, file format, Dewey classification, and link.  It doesn't indicate when the journals were launched, and many entries "announce" older journals. PS:

The International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering is a new peer-reviewed, OA journal from the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering and the Association of Overseas Chinese Agricultural, Biological and Food Engineers.  (Thanks to John Reidelbach.)

The International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education is a new peer-reviewed OA journal.  The inaugural issue (October 2008) is now online.