Predatory Practices affecting Research:

Are Predatory Conferences the Dark Side of the Open Access Movement?

https://academic.oup.com/asj/article/doi/10.1093/asj/sjw247/2966192/Are-Predatory-Conferences-the-Dark-Side-of-the

Predatory journals, peer review, and education research

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/nha3.20173/full

Beall’s list closure a ‘boon for predatory publishers’

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/bealls-list-closure-boon-predatory-publishers

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

How Change Happens + 3 months: how’s it going?  (OA books do promote sales)

http://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/how-change-happens-3-months-hows-it-going/

Universal Green OA to Solve Serials Crisis: Interview with Stevan Harnad

http://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/universal-green-oa-to-solve-serials-crisis-stevan-harnad/?_utm_source=1-2-2

Open up! On the Benefits of Open Access Publishing

http://www.cdnsciencepub.com/blog/open-up-on-the-benefits-of-open-access-publishing.aspx

What does “green” open access mean? Tracking twelve years of changes to journal publisher self-archiving policies.

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0961000616657406

 

Open Data:

Open Data Resources

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/digitisation_preservation_and_digitalcuration/OpenData

Open Research Data

http://www.leru.org/files/publications/Open_Access_to_Research_Data-FINALdocx.pdf

To free or not to free: The debate over public access to weather data

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/598844/scitech/science/to-free-or-not-to-free-the-debate-over-public-access-to-weather-data

 

Open Educational Resources (OER):

OER Attributions: Giving Credit Where Credit is Due

http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/inspire/2017/02/10/oer-attributions-giving-credit-credit-due/

Open Educational Resources Network (Attribution Builder)

http://www.openwa.org/attrib-builder/

Search Engines to find OERS

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Open_Educational_Resources/SearchEngines

Finding OERS

https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com/w/page/27045418/Finding%20OERs

OERs for Teaching

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Open_Educational_Resources/4Teaching