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I was a little surprised not to see one recent shift toward open access mentioned in the article: the SCOAP3 consortium's deal to make the vast majority of particle physics articles open access starting next year. The links below give details, but the short version is that a very large group of libraries and funding agencies have struck a deal with many publishers: the publishers will release all high energy physics articles as open access, and the libraries will keep paying as if they were still subscribed. Thus, the publishers' revenue doesn't change, but the whole world benefits.

This doesn't address all of the issues surrounding the publishing industry (not by a longshot), but I think it's a model worth considering when having these discussions.

http://scoap3.org/ http://www.nature.com/news/open-access-deal-for-particle-phy...