Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:]

Open Science Framework: a scholarly commons to conn3ect the entire research cycle

http://aims.fao.org/activity/blog/open-science-framework-scholarly-commons-connect-entire-research-cycle

The Research Pirates of the Dark Web

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/the-research-pirates-of-the-dark-web/461829/

The African Journal of Information and Communication (AJIC) Collection

http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle/10539/19251

South African Architectural Record Collection

http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle/10539/7333

The Cost of Publishing Monographs

http://www.sr.ithaka.org/publications/the-costs-of-publishing-monographs/

Meet the Robin Hood of Science

http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/a-pirate-bay-for-science

Download Hundreds of Van Gogh Paintings, etc.

http://www.openculture.com/2016/02/download-hundreds-of-van-gogh-paintings-sketches-letters-in-high-resolution.html

28 Free Oscar Films on the Web

http://www.openculture.com/2012/02/28_free_oscar_films_on_the_web.html

An Old Tradition and a New Technology: Notes on Why Open Access Remains Hard

https://www.martineve.com/2016/02/09/an-old-tradition-and-a-new-technology-notes-on-why-open-access-remains-hard/

Authors’ Alliance Annual Report 2015

http://www.authorsalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Authors-Alliance-Annual-Report.pdf

Understanding Open Access : When, Why, & How to Make Your Work Openly Accessible (Authors’ Alliance)

http://authorsalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/Documents/Guides/Authors%20Alliance%20-%20Understanding%20Open%20Access.pdf

Libraries and Open Journal Systems: hosting and facilitating the creation of Open Access scholarship

http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/65282/

Cloud-supported preservation of digital papers: A solution for special collections

https://www.liberquarterly.eu/articles/10.18352/lq.10114/

Yale Center for British Art releases tens of thousands of additional images of its collection

http://artdaily.com/news/84943/Yale-Center-for-British-Art-releases-tens-of-thousands-of-additional-images-of-its-collection#.Vrw8IE8W5AN

 

Open Data:

The Future Will be Built on Open Data – Here’s Why

http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/news/2016/02/future-will-be-built-open-data-%E2%80%93-heres-why

Open Data and Maps

http://www.e-learn.nl/2016/02/08/open-data-and-maps

Solving art history mysteries with open data

https://gcn.com/articles/2016/02/08/nazi-artwork-provenance.aspx

 

Conference alerts:

4th Learning LandsCAPE conference

17 - 19 May 2016 - The River Club, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa

https://sites.google.com/site/capelearning/