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D-Lib Sep/Oct 2012 Stevan Harnad	United Kingdom's Open Access Policy Urgently Needs a Tweak The UK government, under the joint influence of the publisher lobby and short-sighted advice from Open Access (OA) advocates, has decided to make all UK research output OA within two years by diverting funds from UK research.
D-Lib May/Jun 2007 Arthur Sale	A Challenge for the Library Acquisition Budget Libraries have traditionally supported researchers as readers, but not as authors. It is desirable for the future of libraries, and for the future of research in their institutions, that libraries become engaged in this crucial step in the research process.
Information Today August 2006 Robin Peek	The Impact of Open Choice The findings of a study released last month reveal that articles that are published by the author-pays open access approach are cited more often than those that are published in the same journal and that are publicly released 6 months after publication.
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2013 Houghton & Swan	Planting the Green Seeds for a Golden Harvest: Comments and Clarifications on "Going for Gold" This short paper sets out the main conclusions of our work, which was designed to explore the overall costs and benefits of Open Access for research results, as well as identify the most cost-effective policy basis for transitioning to OA at national and institutional levels.
Information Today November 2004 Richard Poynder	Poynder On Point: No Gain Without Pain How are publishers responding to the open acess (OA) movement, and can it really deliver on its promise? More importantly, can it reduce library costs?
Information Today October 2004 Richard Poynder	Poynder On Point: Ten Years After A decade after professor Stevan Harnad posted what he called a "subversive proposal" to the Electronic Journals mailing list at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, open access (OA) is now threatening to overturn the $6 billion scholarly publishing industry and is forcing even the largest publishers against the ropes.
Information Today May 2004	Letter to the Editor Accelerating the Transition to the Optimal and Inevitable: Commentary on open access to research.
Information Today March 13, 2014	Thieme Introduces OA Platform It aggregates Thieme's OA articles on a single platform that is permanently available online for free.
Information Today July 3, 2014	Taylor & Francis Group Releases OA Survey Results The survey showed that positive attitudes toward open access increased since last year.
Information Today February 2007 Miriam A. Drake	Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future.
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2005 David Stern	Open Access or Differential Pricing for Journals: The Road Best Traveled? The adoption of the OA model for journals will create serious instabilities within the existing scholarly publication industry.
Information Today September 21, 2009 Robin Peek	A Compact for Open Access Publication Announced Open-access publishing promises to put more research in more hands and in more places around the world. This is a good enough reason for universities to embrace the guiding principles of this compact.
Information Today May 2008 Marji McClure	Case Study: Open Access Yields Solid Growth for Hindawi Hindawi was just like any other publisher for its first 10 years. But that changed in February 2007 when Hindawi, which had started to test the waters of open access (OA) journal articles a few years earlier, completed its full conversion to an OA publishing model.
Chemistry World April 2012	Opening the Doors of Knowledge Should all journal articles be free to access online?
Information Today January 26, 2009	Nature Publishing Group Expands Open Access Choices Nature Publishing Group is expanding open access choices for authors in 2009, through both "green" self-archiving and "gold" (authors-pays) open access publication routes.
D-Lib June 2004 Harnad & Brody	Comparing the Impact of Open Access (OA) vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journals The way to test the impact advantage of Open Access (OA) is not to compare the citation impact factors of OA and non-OA journals but to compare the citation counts of individual OA and non-OA articles appearing in the same (non-OA) journals.
Information Today July 12, 2012	IET Launches Open Access Engineering Megajournal This is part of the IET's continuing mission to make essential engineering intelligence available to the worldwide engineering community, benefitting researchers who contribute to or use this content.
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2010 Donald W. King	An Approach to Open Access Author Payment This article discusses a few of the favorable and unfavorable issues with Open Access through author payment and proposes an approach that takes advantage of the favorable aspects and overcomes some of the unfavorable ones.
Information Today August 22, 2013	Brill Adopts OA Model for Books Brill, a Netherlands-based publisher in the humanities, social sciences, international law, and biology fields, is now publishing open access books.
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2014 Heidi Zuniga	The Role of a Digital Repository in a Library-Managed Open Access Fund Program This article discusses the development of an open access author fund at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Health Sciences Library and the subsequent partnership with the library's digital repository, in which the articles supported by the fund were added to the repository.
Information Today November 25, 2014 Nancy K. Herther	Paperity Hopes to Create a Comprehensive Index of Open Literature Paperity, "The first multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers," launched on Oct. 8.
Chemistry World July 16, 2014 Patrick Walter	Royal Society of Chemistry's flagship journal now free to access Chemical Science will be free to access from January 2015, and author fees for publishing in the journal will be suspended until 2017.
Chemistry World October 2, 2006 Gill & Sanderson	RSC to Launch Open Access Hybrid Model In a move to keep RSC publishing competitive, authors of RSC journal papers can now choose to have their research freely available the moment it is published -- for a fee.
Information Today November 3, 2011	Taylor & Francis Group Opens More Open Access In 2012, it will initiate changes to its open access program. It has also announced a new list of OA publications.
Information Today November 2004 Tom Hogan	The Fall 2004 ASIDIC Meeting The fall 2004 meeting of the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers (ASIDIC) examined the issues surrounding open access (OA) publishing. Many questions were raised and many views expressed, but few conclusions were drawn.
Information Today January 17, 2012 Robin Peek	Research Works Act Could Challenge Public Access to Federally Funded Research This act is designed to thwart activities such as the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy, which requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central.
D-Lib January 2004 Jonas Holmstrom	The Cost per Article Reading of Open Access Articles The measure for calculating cost per reading (CPR) of journal articles is reviewed, and a way to adapt this measure to articles in open access journals is proposed.
Information Today July 12, 2012 Joanna Ptolomey	Finch Report Reignites OA Storm The global research community and governments are looking to the U.K. for recommendations and solutions to funding and delivering open access models with the recent announcement of the report, "Expanding Access to Published Research Findings."
Information Today October 25, 2012 Abby Clobridge	Copyright Clearance Center Launches Open Access Solutions On Oct. 11, 2012, the Copyright Clearance Center debuted its Open Access Solutions, a set of services aimed at supporting publishers in managing their journal content through the CCC's RightsLink platform.
Information Today July 16, 2013	Springer Renews Its Commitment to Open Access Springer Science+Business Media announced that the influence of its open access journals has increased over the past year.
Information Today January 19, 2012	Springer Open Choice Adopts Creative Commons Attribution License In 2004, the hybrid OA option Open Choice was launched at Springer with the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. Springer's Open Choice option allows authors to publish their articles with OA for the majority of its subscription-based journals.
Information Today October 16, 2008 Susanne Bjorner	Open Access Moves Into the Mainstream: BioMed Central Purchased by Springer STM publishing giant Springer Science+Business Media announced that it had reached an agreement to purchase BioMed Central Group, the leading global open access publisher, for an undisclosed price.
Information Today January 7, 2013 Robin Peek	eLife, a New Scholarly Communication System eLife is "a researcher-led digital publication for outstanding work, a platform to maximize the reach and influence of new findings and a showcase for new approaches for the presentation and assessment of research."
Searcher January 2002 Myer Kutz	The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved...
Information Today June 25, 2012 Abby Clobridge	PeerJ Launches with a New Business Model for Open Access Publishing PeerJ, launched on June 12, 2012 amid a great deal of buzz, has introduced a new approach into the mix with a two-pronged strategy that includes membership fees to cover costs and ongoing peer-review responsibilities for authors to retain membership.
Information Today April 2004 Richard Poynder	The Inevitable and the Optimal What measures are being taken in the U.K. government, the publishing industry, and academic institutions to ensure that researchers, teachers, and students have access to the publications they need?
Information Today January 2005 Richard Poynder	Interview with Vitek Tracz: Essential for Science Convinced that all research must ultimately be freely available on the Web, the chairman of the London-based Current Science Group has become a powerful advocate for open access.
Information Today September 3, 2001 Barbara Quint	BioMed Central Launches 12 New Author-Initiated Research E-Journals In a major new publishing initiative, BioMed Central has expanded its role in pioneering alternatives for scholarly publishing on the Web...
Information Today July 31, 2014	Brill Announces New OA Journals Brill launched a suite of four online-only, open access journals in humanities, social sciences, law, and biology.
Chemistry World September 12, 2013 Maria Burke	Going for gold comes with cost The UK government is making a mistake in focusing solely on full open-access to published research findings, according to a new Parliamentary report. This policy is forcing universities to dip into already stretched research budgets.
D-Lib June 2004 Donald W. King	Should Commercial Publishers Be Included in the Model for Open Access through Author Payment? If open access by author payment is in fact an optimum model, there must be some way to demonstrate it other than by the trickle approach now taking place.
Information Today October 13, 2015	The Open Library of Humanities Debuts The Open Library of Humanities, an organization dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no charges to authors, launched after 2 years of planning.
D-Lib December 1999 Stevan Harnad	Free at Last: The Future of Peer-Reviewed Journals Whither the vaunted system of the peer-reviewed journal in this new age of nearly-free cyberpublishing?
Information Today June 7, 2004 Robin Peek	Elsevier Allows Open Access Self-Archiving In a move that has stunned both the publishing community and the academic world, major journal publisher Elsevier is going to permit Open Access self-archiving for almost all of its journal titles.
Information Today March 2001 Paula J. Hane	bepress.com Introduces Innovative Scholarly Publishing Model A new electronic publishing venture has launched that is taking on the scholarly publishing establishment. bepress.com (The Berkeley Electronic Press) was started by three University of California-Berkeley professors and a programmer from the Inktomi team...
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2012 David Shotton	The Five Stars of Online Journal Articles -- a Framework for Article Evaluation I propose five factors -- peer review, open access, enriched content, available datasets and machine-readable metadata -- as the Five Stars of Online Journal Articles.
Geotimes August 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Open Access Advancing One year after the NIH began to encourage researchers to make their findings freely available online, two U.S. senators introduced a new bill to Congress that proposes to both toughen and expand that open-access policy to include most federally funded research.
Information Today July 26, 2004 Richard Poynder	British Politicians Call on U.K. Government to Support Open Access Following 7 months of deliberation, the U.K. House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee has concluded that the current model for scientific publishing is unsatisfactory.
Chemistry World February 27, 2013 Phillip Broadwith	Science community urged to unite on open access Arguments over fine detail should not derail moves towards open access publishing for scientific research, according to those with the biggest stake in future changes.
Information Today February 7, 2011	Wiley Launches New Program of Open Access Journals The first journals will launch shortly, publishing primary peer-reviewed research in a range of broad-based subject disciplines in the life and biomedical sciences.