From Library Journal:
The debate over Open Access (OA) has typically been the domain of faculty and administrations, taking place near the pinnacle of academia’s ivory tower. But last week the American Medical Student Association and other student groups, brokered by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), weighed in from below with their own “Student Statement on the Right to Research.”
In the statement, students call upon faculty, researchers, and funding groups (including governments) to support Open Access principles in order to remove “barriers for scholarly and educational re-use” of research materials.