Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:
A Response to Jeffrey Beall’s Critique of Open Access
Estonian universities increased the access to research data and hope for further state support : OpenAIRE blog
https://blogs.openaire.eu/?p=261
Free Knowledge – Confronting the Commodification of Human Discovery (can download book)
http://www.uofrpress.ca/publications/Free-Knowledge
Don’t Write Off Paper Just Yet
http://www.npr.org/2015/05/26/408794149/dont-write-off-paper-just-yet
The Battle for Open
http://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/books/read/11/174/battle-for-open/
Landscapes of Research: Perceptions of Open Access (OA) - Publishing in the Arts and Humanities
https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/sites/default/files/pdf/1265.pdf
Study on Perspectives Regarding Deposit on Open Access Repositories in the Context of Public Universities in the Central-Eastern Region of Argentina
http://src-online.ca/index.php/src/article/view/145
Open Knowledge Ethiopia community conducted its first meetup
http://okfneth.blogspot.com/2015/05/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none_20.html
How to be innovative in Open Access with limited resourcs: Workshop Report December 2014
http://find.jorum.ac.uk/resources/20060
On Approaches to Bridging the Gap in access to Licensed Resources
Global coalition denounces Elsevier’s sharing policy
http://www.acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/archives/10336
Elsevier rebuffs COAR/SPARC criticism of sharing and hosting policy
http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=1911
Two-thirds of DOAJ Journals do not have article processing charges
Which subjects are most likely to charge article processing charges?
How a flat APC with no price increase for 3 years can be a 6% – 77% price increase
Open Access Article Processing Charges: DOAJ Survey May 2014
http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/3/1/1/htm
What could altmetrics add to the REF exercise?
http://www.altmetric.com/blog/altmetrics-and-ref/
Has the time come to kill the password?
https://opensource.com/business/15/4/interview-Jonathan-LeBlanc-PayPal
Springer Nature Created Following Merger Completion
The 10 Best Universities in Africa
http://businesstech.co.za/news/general/88448/the-10-best-universities-in-africa/
Bringing African Scholarship to the World: Wits University Press Joins the Thomson Reuters Book Citation Index (not Open Access)
Open Educational Resources:
What can openness do for teachers (Slideshow)
http://www.slideshare.net/mweller/what-can-openness-do-for-teachers
A report on the Re-use and Adaptation of Open Educational Resources (OER): An Exploration of Technologies Available (2012)
http://dspace.col.org/handle/123456789/480
Open Educational Resources