Trump might help free science that’s locked behind paywalls

Vox, here. 

THE QUEST TO TOPPLE SCIENCE-STYMYING ACADEMIC PAYWALLS

J. Ito, here. 

Publishers Escalate Legal Battle Against ResearchGate

Inside Higher Education, here. 

Piracy site for science research dinged again in court—this time for $4.8M

ArsTechnica, here. 

German researchers resign from Elsevier journals in push for nationwide open access

ScienceMag, here. 

Among Nature's 10: The founder of an illegal hub for paywalled papers

Nature.com, here. 

Intellectual Property Arrangements: Inquiry Report

Productivity Commission, here. 

Germany-wide consortium of research libraries announce boycott of Elsevier journals over open access

BoingBoing, here. 

Elsevier’s New Patent for Online Peer Review Throws a Scare Into Open-Source Advocates

Chronicle, here. 

Pirates in the Library – An Inquiry into the Guerilla Open Access Movement

B. Bodó, here.

Is it time for authors to leave SSRN?

AuthorsAlliance, here. 

Developing SocArXiv — a new open archive of the social sciences to challenge the outdated journal system.

Blogs.lse.ac.uk, here.

There is no Open Science without the use of open standards and Free Software

Blog.3rik.cc, here. 

Elsevier acquires online community SSRN

TheBookseller, here.
See also here.
See Elsevier's post here.
There is somewhere a lesson to be learned about how communities are formed and monetized in the platform society. Moreover, would authors respond/react by increasingly disintermediating (own blog, other more "private" repositories, etc.), possibly? Or what about a broader ArXiv?

Who's downloading pirated papers?

ScienceMag.org, here.

This student put 50 million research articles online. And they’re free.

WashingtonPost, here. 

Sci-Hub: research piracy and the public good

TimesHigherEducation, here.

Sci-Hub: How Does It Work?

Scholarlykitchen, here.

The Research Pirates of the Dark Web

The Atlantic, here.

Disrupting the subscription journals’ business model for the necessary large-scale transformation to open access

R. Schimmer, K. Geschuhn, A. Vogler, here.