Check out Stephen Downes' presentation from Hammamet, Tunisia Applications, algorithms and data: Open educational resources and the next generation of virtual learning
Following a United States District Court ruling, Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature.
The UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for Open Educational Resources and Open Learning has funded the filming of five regional consultations on OER leading to the 2nd International Summit on OER in Ljubljana in September. They are openly licensed and available here: Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East & North Africa
From the Atlantic: Academics Want You to Read Their Work for Free. Publishing an open-access paper in a journal can be prohibitively expensive. Some researchers are drumming up support for a movement to change that.
See the Florida Virtual University's 2016 Student Textbook and Course Materials Survey with responses from 22,000 students.
