Sign it. Then pass it along to your friends to sign. Seriously. (This is a petition, created by John Wilbanks, formerly of Creative Commons, and all-around dynamo or pro-open-access energy.)

"Today I resigned from the editorial board of a well respected journal in my field – Genomics.  No longer can I work for a system that provides solid profits for the publisher while effectively denying colleagues in developing countries access to research findings."

The Community College Open Textbooks Collaborative is funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. This collection of sixteen educational non-profit and for-profit organizations, affiliated with more than 200 colleges, is focused on driving awareness and adoptions of open textbooks to more than 2000 community and other two-year colleges.

A handy online spreadsheet that lists 875 TED Talks, with handy links to each individual video. Updated regularly.

The Smart Set is an online magazine covering culture and ideas, arts and science, global and national affairs — everything from literature to shopping, medicine to sports, philosophy to food. The Smart Set strives to present big ideas on the small, the not-so-small, and the everyday.

Knoema, the innovative and interactive online catalogue of economic, environmental and demographic data

Michael Eisen
I'm an evolutionary biologist at UC Berkeley and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. My research focuses on the evolution and population genomics of gene regulation in flies, and on the ways that microbes control animal behavior. I am a strong proponent of open science, and a co-founder of the Public Library of Science. And most importantly, I am a Red Sox fan.

The International Journal of the SLA Academic Division. Peer-reviewed journal for librarians serving academic departments or affiliated institutions including centers, institutes, specialized collections, & special units within or related to academic units

@bbcscitech: UK to open up access to research http://t.co/MLDgYruj

Publishing The Unpublishable. Edited by Kenneth Goldsmith. 2007-present. All kindsa weird shit. Weird in a good way.

The Open Journal of OT - shame they went for this "the author/s must pay a processing fee of $200.00 U.S. dollars.."

Law, Crime and History recognises that global public consciousness in the law and its impact on daily lives has reached unprecedented levels. It will appeal not just to academics but also to policy makers, practitioners, and an interested lay readership.

Alphaville aims to cultivate inspiring, cutting-edge research, and particularly welcomes work produced by early career researchers in Film and Screen Media. We seek work that engages with current debates

Lessons Worth Sharing. TED-Ed’s commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED’s mission of spreading great ideas.

The World Bank is the largest single source of development knowledge. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.

Let me just say that any area of scholarship where, in 20-fucking-12, the idea of moving to open-access, online distribution of writing counts as some kind of radicalism deserves everything that's going to happen to it.