How Piracy Became a Cause Celebre in the World of Academics | Motherboard

"Between established publishers carefully controlling their collections and academic pirates busily dynamiting holes in the paywalls, lies a vast swath of fertile ground where new approaches to publishing are attempting to meet the possibilities offered by the internet.

Open access publishing removes restrictions on readership, and takes many forms, from “gold open access” in which authors cover publishing costs with an article processing fees, to “green open access," including self-archiving in institutional repositories and other non-commercial outlets."