Tim Growers (Cambridge University mathematician) talks with Bryan Crump on Radio NZ, Monday 30 July, about how his refusal to submit or review papers for publishing house Elsevier led to demands for open access to scientific knowledge.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/nights/audio/2526643/unlocking-science.asx

Tim’s blog also features details of a new open access venture for Cambridge University Press.

http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/a-new-open-access-venture-from-cambridge-university-press/

The blurb on the Commonwealth of learning site (http://www.col.org/resources/publications/Pages/detail.aspx?PID=412) says that 28 contributors to a new book on “OERs and change in higher education” answer such questions as:

How do institutions, in both developed and developing countries, reposition themselves meaningfully within the new information-rich world in which information is accessible as never before? …. and …

How might proponents of OER garner greater governmental, institutional and educator “buy-in” to the principles of open educational practices, and to the policies and programs necessary to realise and sustain OER?

Download the book today from that link (above) and find out what the answers are might be …