This Act requires institutions of higher education to develop open textbooks
available to students at no charge and requires buyback of used textbooks at 50% of purchase price.
Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment.
Paywall: The Business of Scholarship is a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science, questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publisher Elsevier and looks at how that profit margin is often greater than some of the most profitable tech companies like Apple, Facebook and Google.