Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

20 Years of Excellence 1996-2016 – Academy of Science of South Africa

http://research.assaf.org.za/handle/20.500.11911/75

Economic, social and cultural rights - What does the internet have to do with them?

https://www.apc.org/en/node/34285

Sci-Hub Moves to the Center of the Ecosystem

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/09/05/sci-hub-moves-center-ecosystem/?informz=1

Spanish Researchers’ Opinions, Attitudes, and Practices towards Open Access Publishing

http://www.elprofesionaldelainformacion.com/contenidos/2017/jul/16.pdf

Publishers are increasingly in control of scholarly infrastructure and why we should care – a Case Study of Elsevier

http://knowledgegap.org/index.php/sub-projects/rent-seeking-and-financialization-of-the-academic-publishing-industry/preliminary-findings/

ECS Takes Down the Paywall for International Open Access Week

http://www.electrochem.org/redcat-blog/ecs-takes-down-the-paywall-for-international-open-access-week/

Interview with MDPI: Lessons Learned in more than 20 Years of Open Access Publishing

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/09/28/interview-mdpi-lessons-learned-20-years-open-access-publishing/?informz=1

OpenCitations: enabling the FAIR use of open citation data

https://essepuntato.github.io/papers/oc-garr2017.html

 

Data and Data Management:

Defining Open Data

http://www.businessintelligenceinfo.com/business-intelligence/big-data/open-data-is-great-but-only-if-you-ensure-data-quality

Five Dutch Universities Turn to Elsevier to aid data collaboration

https://www.elsevier.com/connect/five-dutch-universities-turn-to-elsevier-to-aid-data-collaboration

 

Open Educational Resources (OER)

Open Educational Resources: Global Report 2017

http://oasis.col.org/handle/11599/2788

Stakeholders validate National Policy on Open Education Resources

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/09/stakeholders-validate-national-policy-open-education-resources/

A Design Guide for Open Online Courses

http://repository.alt.ac.uk/2373/1/DesignGuideOpenOnlineCourses1-4.pdf