Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

The Once and Future Publishing Library

http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub166/Pub166-pdf

Research Outputs Policy (DHET’s new accredited lists for 2016 – South Africa)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/research-outputs-policy-2015-gazette-38553-notice-188-2015-03-11

Forging global links to support South African research

http://www.scidev.net/global/education/multimedia/forging-global-links-south-african-research.html

COAR launches Draft Resource Type Vocabulary for Open Access Repositories

https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-media/coar-launches-draft-resource-type-vocabulary-for-open-access-repositories/

Policy Driving Open Access to Research

http://www.slideshare.net/inaviljoensmith/open-access-policy-driving-access-to-research-ina-smith

Webometrics World Rankings of Institutional Repositories

http://repositories.webometrics.info/en/world

Finding The Right Balance Between IP And Access To Science

http://www.ip-watch.org/2015/08/03/finding-the-right-balance-between-ip-and-access-to-science/

South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE) – Newsletter, v. 21,no.3, 2015

http://www.saide.org.za/resources/newsletters/Vol_21_no.3_2015/3_2015%20web.html

The British Library Puts 1,000,000 images into public domain, making them free to reuse & remix

http://www.openculture.com/2013/12/british-library-puts-1000000-images-into-public-domain.html

Who’s talking about your research – Tune in to the digital debate and discover what happens post-publication

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/07/21/whos-talking-about-your-research/

Researchers Open Repository for ‘Dark Data’

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/scientists-open-repository-for-dark-data/57125

No reservations - Why the time has come to kill print textbook reserves

http://crln.acrl.org/content/76/6/332.full

 

Predatory Publishing Practices:

Bogus Society Offers to Publish Papers Without Peer Review

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/bogus-society-offers-to-publish-papers-without-peer-review/6653748

Vainness and predatory educational publishers are corrupting the pursuit of information

http://www.observerchronicle.com/science/vanity-and-predatory-academic-publishers-are-corrupting-the-pursuit-of-knowledge/35043/