Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

A Response to Jeffrey Beall’s Critique of Open Access

https://blogs.lt.vt.edu/openvt/2015/05/19/a-response-to-jeffrey-bealls-critique-of-open-access/#comment-6969

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

https://bibwild.wordpress.com/2015/05/14/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

http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2015/05/25/two-thirds-of-doaj-journals-do-not-have-article-processing-charges/

Which subjects are most likely to charge article processing charges?

http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2015/05/05/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

http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2015/05/13/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

http://www.springer.com/gp/about-springer/media/press-releases/corporate/springer-nature-created-following-merger-completion/256626

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)

http://witspress.bookslive.co.za/blog/2015/05/26/bringing-african-scholarship-to-the-world-wits-university-press-joins-the-thomson-reuters-book-citation-index/

 

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

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