The Electronic Frontier Foundation launch a petition for open access to research.
Government agencies like the National Science Foundation invest millions of taxpayer dollars into scientific research every year, and yet you — the taxpayer — don't have access to the results unless you pay thousands of dollars to buy academic journals.
And another call to US students :
Students: Get Your University Press to Support FASTR
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/03/students-get-university-press-support-fastr