The winds of change in STM publishing

"The European Commission announced Friday (May 6th) that it will hold a public hearing on May 30th as part of preparations for a new Communication and Recommendation to be adopted by end of 2011 on access to and preservation of scientific information in the digital age. Upon receiving the invitation to join this meeting and present OASPA’s views, I could not help but reflect upon how much the open access publishing landscape has changed since the Commission presented its first Communication on scientific information in the digital age at a public meeting in February 2007....“Mixed Model Publishers” are probably the fastest growing group of OASPA members...."