Open Access, A2k & Scholarly Communication:

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication Resources

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/openaccess_a2k_scholarly_communication

Open Data Resources

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/openaccess_a2k_scholarly_communication/OpenData

Open Research/Open Science

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/openaccess_a2k_scholarly_communication/OpenResearch_OpenScience

Open Innovation

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/openaccess_a2k_scholarly_communication/open_innovation

Open science must be promoted by all means necessary

http://www.minedu.fi/OPM/Tiedotteet/2016/12/avoin_tiede.html?lang=en

Open access, Open data, Open science (workshops held 12-13 December 2016)

http://mg.co.za/article/2016-12-09-00-open-access-open-data-open-science

 

Scholarly Publishing Concerns:

Is open access still open: the case of article processing charge?

http://www.ceciis.foi.hr/app/public/conferences/1/ceciis2016/papers/ICT-3.pdf

Elsevier licence offer contravenes open access and fair pricing for scientific publications  

https://www.hrk.de/fileadmin/redaktion/hrk/02-Dokumente/02-02-PM/02-02-01-Englische-PM/2016_12_02_Allianz_Verhandlungen_Elsevier_EN.pdf

Opinion: Greedy academic journal publishers behind knowledge inequality

http://phys.org/news/2016-12-opinion-greedy-academic-journal-publishers.html

Serials crisis hits National Taiwan University, Elsevier journal subscriptions to be discontinued

http://www.editage.com/insights/serials-crisis-hits-national-taiwan-university-elsevier-journal-subscriptions-to-be-discontinued

Time for Elsexit?

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2016/11/29/time-for-elsexit/

Why I still won’t review for or publish with Elsevier–and think you shouldn’t either

http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2016/12/12/why-i-still-wont-review-for-or-publish-with-elsevier-and-think-you-shouldnt-either/

Scholarly Publications FineLib Negotiations

https://www.kiwi.fi/display/finelib/Scholarly+publications+-+FinELib+negotiations

Transparency and openness to scientific publishing: the Finnish research organisations pay millions of euros annually to the large publishers

http://openscience.fi/-/transparency-and-openness-to-scientific-publishing-the-finnish-research-organisations-pay-millions-of-euros-annually-to-the-large-publishers