"Research Library Issues" ("RLI") is a bimonthly report from ARL (Association of Research Libraries), CNI (Coalition of Networked Information), and SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). This issue includes the following articles: (1) Strategies for Opening Up Content: Laying the Groundwork for an Open System of Scholarship (Julia C. Blixrud); (2) Achieving Consensus on the University of Kansas Open-Access Policy (Ada Emmett and Town Peterson); (3) Improving Access with Open-Access Publishing Funds (Greg Tananbaum); (4) Model Language for Author Rights in Library Content Licenses (Ivy Anderson); and (5) Opening Up Content in HathiTrust: Using HathiTrust Permissions Agreements to Make Authors' Work Available (Melissa Levine). Individual articles contain endnotes.