plos Europe's massive plan to require open access for all science gets two new backers: Wellcome Trust and the Gates Foundation Cory Doctorow

the public sphere not the elsevier Consortium of the largest science funders in Europe announce that they'll only fund open access research Cory Doctorow

the public sphere not the elsevier Germany-wide consortium of research libraries announce boycott of Elsevier journals over open access Cory Doctorow