Articles of interest related to Open Access in education.
OpenStax Deal with College Bookstores will Trim Textbook Prices
5 Hurdles to OER Adoption
http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2013/04/24/5-Hurdles-to-OER-Adoption.aspx?Page=1
White House Delivers New Open Access Policy that has activists cheering
http://chronicle.com/article/White-House-Delivers-New/137549/
Why the White House public access Policy sucks
College Faculty continue to prefer print textbooks
Harvard panel pushes benefits of free journals
Harvard and MIT Team Up to Offer Free Online Courses
Groups target textbook prices to rein in college costs
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2012-02-12/college-costs-free-textbooks/53123522/1
Open Science challenges journal tradition
Mexico's largest university to post online nearly all nearly all lectures and course materials
Princeton adopts open access
Seattle Times 11/8/10 - article on efforts by Washington State Community Colleges towards providing Open Access textbooks
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013373872_textbooks08m.html
Attempts at legislation and regulation
http://detnews.com/article/20100722/METRO/7220395/1026/#ixzz0uVZCYV4y
NY Times Room for Debate series on Textbook costs:
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2010/7/25/the-real-cost-of-college-textbooks?emc=eta1
Seven things you should know about open educational resources
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7061.pdf
Universities advocate for public access to publicly funded research
NY Times March 31, 2010 on Open Access and for-profit models:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/education/31iht-riedopen.html?ref=education
Barnes and Noble partners with FlatWorld on lower cost texts:
California creates a comprehensive site for OA resources
The Serials Crisis and Open Access A white paper for the Virginia Tech Commission on Research
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/faculty_archives/YoungP/OAwhitepaper.pdf
Not Textbooks. Think Curriculuar Resource Strategy, Part II
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6712127.html
Open Access Encyclopedias - Inside Higher Ed - 12/14/09 - Can free be reliable?
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/12/14/encyclopedias
"Selling lessons online raises cash and questions." (the oppositive approach from Open Access!)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/education/15plans.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=teachers&st=cse
blog post on the growth of OA
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2009/12/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-december.html
discussing open access encyclopedias
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/12/14/encyclopedias
Fall2009 Webinar "Throwing Open the Doors: Strategies and Implications for Open Access"
http://net.educause.edu/live0919