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Abstract: Open Access (OA) is a model for publishing scholarly peer reviewed journals, made possible by the Internet. The full text of OA journals and articles can be freely read, as the publishing is funded through means other than subscriptions. Empirical research concerning the quantitative development of OA publishing has so far consisted of scattered individual studies providing brief snapshots, using varying methods and data sources. This study adopts a systematic method for studying the development of OA journals from their beginnings in the early 1990s until 2009.

Two articles about a lawsuit launched against Georgia State University by academic publishers, from Copyright Librarian and Duke University:

"...Cambridge, Oxford, & Sage publishers are filing against Georgia State University and asking the court to issue one of the all-time-detrimental-to-education injunctions in the modern era," in regard to the use of e-reserves for courses.

A strong article on behalf of open-access science which got a mention on BoingBoing. It starts with the story of biologist Jonathan Eisen, who is trying to foster the reputation of his late father's scientific research by posting it online, but is hampered at every step by the existing, closed world of scientific publishing:

An argument for creating a github for science that would take advantage of the collaborative strengths that are currently absent from science publishing systems.