I absolutely agree with this article. However, I think we are starting to climb out of the "trough of disillusionment". It always takes time for people to recover from reality and expectation not matching up, and as the technology for open access courses advances (and more and more instructors are sharing their experiences with running a MOOC), it can only get better. Aim for the "plateau of productivity"! Which, hopefully, will be a very high plateau.

For a few weeks now I've been thinking about open access for fiction. There are any number of sites you can post original fiction on, but few of them self-define as open access "publishing" websites, and many of them do not look polished - which could hold authors back from submitting pieces to them. However, this is one open-access journal for fiction writing and for original artwork that I enjoyed a lot: http://pdrjournal.org/ (enjoy a break from all the scholarly reading!)

Great resource supporting student publishing from the Canadian Federation of Students. I wanted to call attention to this, as having student government organizations support open access publishing is an excellent step towards open access becoming legitimized.

Great website and organization that provides open access resources in outreach libraries for developing countries: http://beyondaccess.net/ Let me know what you think!

This article lists some of the prices for publishing that an author would have to put forward for their text to be open access. Excellent for seeing why there might be some resistance!

I would love to have access to something like this in Vancouver - if anyone is in Cambridge, MA and has gone to this space, please let us know how it is!

This is going back a few weeks, but I just saw this article on a very creative use of copyright. It's interesting to think about using copyright in different areas, particularly to protect yourself in different ways:
http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/this-canadian-artist-halted-pipeline-development-by-copyrighting-his-land-as-a-work-of-art-983?utm_source=vicefbca

Found this helpful in understanding the economic concerns in Open Access. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.21660/abstract (if you can't access it here, the article is "Publication Fees in Open Access Publishing:
Sources of Funding and Factors Influencing
Choice of Journal" by David J. Solomon and Bo-Christer Bjork).

This is a great source of basic information about international copyright laws that I found really helpful in getting a foundation on it: http://www.rightsdirect.com/content/rd/en/toolbar/copyright_education/International_Copyright_Basics.html