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Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication:

arXiv Update – January 2017

https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/arxivpub/arXiv+Update+-+January+2017

Measuring Open Access Mandate Compliance

http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/1192-Measuring-Open-Access-Mandate-Compliance.html

Celebrating and Strategizing Open Access in Niger

http://ocsdnet.org/celebrating-and-strategizing-open-access-in-niger/

Mapping Open Access Societal Impact

http://riojournal.com/articles.php?id=11743

How could an Open Access Scholarly Journal System Look?  A Scenario Analysis

http://www.pleiade.nl/HowcouldanOpenAccessScholarlyJournalsystemlooklike.pdf

Commons Open Repository Exchange: Open Access for Humanities Gets Ambitious

https://www.enago.com/academy/core-open-access-for-humanities-gets-ambitious/

Comparing Sci-Hub and oaDOI

http://blog.impactstory.org/comparing-sci-hub-oadoi/

Apple publishes first scholarly research paper

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/apple-publishes-first-scholarly-research-paper-1.2930337

Transparency and openness in science

http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/4/1/160979

From MIT Press: 10 Topics Every 21st Century Citizen Should Know About

http://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2017/01/13/essential-knowledge-mit-press

 

Publishing issues:

No full-text access to Elsevier journals from January 2017 on (German institutions)

https://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/en/news/details/voraussichtlich-keine-volltexte-von-zeitschriften-des-elsevier-verlags-ab-dem-112017/

Gates Foundation research can’t be published in top journals

http://www.nature.com/news/gates-foundation-research-can-t-be-published-in-top-journals-1.21299

Gates Foundation pressuring journals or vice versa?

https://plus.google.com/+PeterSuber/posts/dU6tWcorZEV

Major publisher threatened to sue author who didn’t realize he owed open access fees

http://retractionwatch.com/2017/01/13/major-publisher-threatened-sue-author-didnt-realize-owed-open-access-fees/

Surprise! Paper retracted after author tells journal it’s a “pile of dung”

http://retractionwatch.com/2016/11/30/surprise-paper-retracted-author-tells-journal-pile-dung/