May 1, 2012
Bipartisan Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) Continues to Gain Support in Congress
Good news for supporters of open access to the results of taxpayer funded research this week, as Members of Congress continue to express their support for the proposed legislation.

April 30, 2012
Information Needed to Treat Put Beyond Physicians' Reach
P. Logan Weygandt, The Baltimore Sun, April 29, 2012. Free online access to medical journal articles must be the norm.

April 27, 2012
NIMH Director's Blog
Thomas R. Insel, M.D., National Institute of Mental Health, April 26, 2012

April 26, 2012
If Harvard Can’t Afford Academic Journal Subscriptions, Maybe It’s Time for an Open Access Model

Keith Wagstaff, TIME Magazine, April 26, 2012

Last week, Harvard’s Faculty Advisory Council revealed that the school now spends $3.75 million annually on academic journal subscriptions. Why so much? According to a memo the council sent out, some journals cost the school up to $40,000 every year, with the two top publishers increasing the price of content 145% over the last six years.

April 26, 2012
SPARC Releases New Guide for Campus Action
Frustrated with business practices that limit their ability to share the results of their scholarship, more than 10,500 academics have now signed the Cost of Knowledge’s online boycott of the journal publisher, Elsevier. Citing disapproval over exorbitant journal prices and profits, restrictive bundling requirements for journal purchasing, and support for legislation to further limit the free exchange of scholarly information, the number of signatories continues to grow steadily.