Cost-effectiveness of open access publications by Jevin West, Theodore Bergstrom and Carl T. Bergstrom. Tool: http://www.eigenfactor.org/openaccess/ Abstract: "Open access publishing has been proposed as one possible solution to the serials crisis | the rapidly growing subscription prices in scholarly journal publishing. However, open access publishing can present economic pitfalls as well, such as excessive publication charges. We discuss the decision that an author faces when choosing to submit to an open access journal. We develop an interactive tool to help authors compare among alternative open access venues and thereby get the most for their publication fees."

Scholarly kitchen article by Alice Meadows of Wiley amongst other things expressing surprise at the lack of strong opposition in science disciplines to the RCUK CC-BY requirement, and drawing attention to the 2012 ALPSP survey of libraries which, she says, shows "a six-month embargo period is likely to result in wholesale cancellations of arts, humanities, and social science journals".

Jeffrey Beall here highlights "OAJPA", a bogus new Open Access Publisher Association attempting to compete with the legitimate OASPA.

Blog post by Martin Eve commenting on the "History Journal Editors' Statement" - http://www.history.ac.uk/news/2012-12-10/statement-position-relation-open-access with particular emphasis on CC-BY and CC-BY-NC.

Review/critique by Stevan Harnad of article by Edinburgh University's Open Scholarship Development Officer in Ariadne 70 "Gold Open Access: Counting the Costs" (http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue70/andrew)

Details of a 2 day conference about OA strategy for institutions, individual states, and the EU, with a very interesting spread of contributors including Stevan Harnad, Michael Jubb, Alma Swan, Robert Kiley, and Stuart Shieber.