Well this is food for thought and fuel for fires http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2013/jan/17/open-access-publishing-science-paywall-immoral

Open Access Publishing does seem to be spreading
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/occams-corner/2012/oct/22/inexorable-rise-open-access-scientific-publishing

Major players
The Open Library of the Humanities (a new project)
http://www.openlibhums.org/

Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org

Directory of Open Access Books
http://www.doabooks.org

SAGE OPEN
http://sgo.sagepub.com

A blog on Open Science
http://openingscience.org/
NB it seems to be linked to the PLOS blogs, which by the way also blog on Culture and seems to be improving its data access

DARIAH.eu´s current Open Access Partners
There is a little intro at http://hypotheses.org/about/hypotheses-org-en or at DARIAH.eu

But there are dangers
Predatory Open Access Journals
http://metadata.posterous.com/tag/predatoryopenaccessjournals