Open Access in the News
July 28, 2012: Openness costs (Nature: International weekly journal of science)
July 27, 2012: Open your minds and share your results (Nature: International weekly journal of science)
July 24, 2012: Starting an Open Access Journal: a step-by-step guide (Martin Paul Eve)
July 23, 2012: Is the Academic Publishing Industry on the Verge of Disruption? (US News and World Report) Thoughtful article, with interesting commentary in the "Reader Comments" section.
July 16, 2012: UK research funders announce liberated open-access policy (Nature News Blog)
July 2, 2012: Tim Gowers blogs about the new Forum of Mathematics, an open access venture from Cambridge University Press (Gowers's Weblog)
May 30, 2012: RUK: The Maturing Threat of Open Access (The Street)
May 28, 2012: Wikimedia Foundation endorses open-access petition to the White House; pending changes RfC ends (The Wikipedia Signpost)
May 1, 2012: News from Britain: Wikipedia founder to help in government's research scheme (The Guardian)
April 24, 2012: Harvard University says it can't afford journal publishers' prices (The Guardian)
April 24, 2012: Life after Elsevier: making open access to scientific knowledge a reality (The Guardian)
April 16, 2012: Wellcome Trust Acts to Open Research Findings to the Public (New York Times)
April 14, 2012: Open Sesame (The Economist)
April 9, 2012: Academic spring: How an Angry Maths Blog Sparked a Scientific Revolution (The Guardian)
April 1, 2012: An Open Letter to Academic Publishers About Open Access (Chronicle of Higher Education)
March 19, 2012: Opinion: Academic Publishing is Broken (TheScientist: Magazine of the Life Sciences)
March 6, 2012: Q&A with the founders of the Elsevier Boycott, Tim Gowers and Tyler Neylon
February 23, 2012: Values and Scholarship (Inside Higher Ed), an essay signed by 11 Provosts of major research universities about the open sharing of scholarly information.