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Let’s be open about Open Access

Richard Poynder asks himself who is behind http://openscience.com/ and comes to a surprising conclusion:
At this point I thought it might be worth checking the Whois record for openscience.com. In doing so I discovered that the domain is in the name of De Gruyter, the Berlin-based legacy publisher, which had acquired Versita in January 2012.
 

Peter Suber on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done?

Peter Suber in an interview with Richard Poynder on open access and it's future challenges. Peter Suber is the Director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, Director of the Harvard Open Access Project, a Faculty Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Senior Researcher at Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), Research Professor of Philosophy atEarlham College, and a non-practicing lawyer. His most recent book is Open Access(MIT Press 2012). For more information, see his home page.

Danny Kingsley on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done?

This is the seventh Q&A in a series exploring the current state of Open Access (OA). On this occasion the questions are answered by Danny Kingsley, Executive Officer of the Australian Open Access Support Group (AOASG), an organisation founded at the end of last year by six Australian universities in order to provide “a concerted and coordinated Australian voice in support of open access.”
Blog by Richard Poynder.