Scholarly communications and access:

• UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries: Scholarly publishing at the tipping point 
• The Scholarly Kitchen: Sustainable Open Access – what’s next?
• Physics Today: Transformative open-access deals spread to the US

The demise of “Big Deals” with the 3 major for-profit publishers:

• TheScientist article: North American Universities Increasingly Cancel Publisher Packages 
• Inside Higher Ed article: UC Drops Elsevier 

Websites which cover these topics in more detail:

• SPARC
• The Scholarly Kitchen