Publishers and Policies:

Elsevier Mutiny: Cracks Are Widening in the Fortress of Academic Publishing

http://fortune.com/2015/11/02/elsevier-mutiny/

Language of Protest

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/02/editors-and-editorial-board-quit-top-linguistics-journal-protest-subscription-fees

Support Fair Open Access in Linguistics

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/support-fair-open-access-in-linguistics

Public Universities Back Protest of Elsevier Pricing [Inside Higher Ed]

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/11/03/public-universities-back-protest-elsevier-pricing

 

Open Access Monograph Publishing:

Books, Glorious Books: Explorations in Open Access Monograph Publishing

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/11/02/books-glorious-books-explorations-in-open-access-monograph-publishing/

A Study of Direct Author Subvention for Publishing Humanities Books at Two Universities: A Report to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation by Indiana University and University of Michigan

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/113671/IU%20Michigan%20White%20Paper%2009-15-2015.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Guest Post: Alison Mudditt Interviews Geoffry Crossick on An Age of Challenge and Opportunity: The HEFCE Report on Monographs and Open Access

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/10/19/guest-post-alison-muddit-interviews-geoffry-crossick-on-an-age-of-challenge-and-opportunity-the-hefce-report-on-monographs-and-open-access/

AAU-ARL Prospectus for an Institutionally Funded First-Book Subvention

http://www.arl.org/publications-resources/3280-aau-arl-prospectus-for-an-institutionally-funded-first-book-subvention#.Vjm6f0-heHt

Who Ought to Underwrite Publishing Scholars’ Books?

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/who-ought-to-underwrite-publishing-scholars-books/53621

Monographs and open access

http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/rereports/year/2015/monographs/

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

EU urges Science Publishers to adapt to Open Access

http://www.labnews.co.uk/news/eu-urges-science-publishers-adapt-open-access-02-11-2015/

100 Time Saving Search Engines for Serious Scholars revised

http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2012/07/100-time-saving-search-engines-serious-scholars-revised/

Interview with Leslie Chan, Principal Investigator of OCSDNet

http://ocsdnet.org/interview-with-leslie-chan-principal-investigator-of-ocsdnet/

Guest Post: Open Access Publication Just Makes Sense

http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/news/2015/10/30/guest-post-open-access-publication-just-makes-sense/

Orcid – Connecting Research and Researchers

http://orcid.org/

Is Access to research ever really free?

http://www.enago.com/blog/is-access-to-research-ever-really-free/

Digital Science launches GRID - a New, Open Database Offering a Unique Insight into Research Organisations Across the Globe

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/10/prweb13016478.htm

Know your Rights: Creative Commons

http://creativecommons.org.au/know-your-rights/

Ten Years of Open Access in the European Commission (2006-2015)

http://www.slideshare.net/OpenAccessEC/ten-years-of-open-access-in-the-european-commission-20062015

The bill that would give you free textbooks

http://www.technicianonline.com/features/article_9ac210e4-8118-11e5-84a3-d32073cf0401.html

US Department Proposes Open Licensing Policy as part of #GoOpen Campaign

http://www.sparc.arl.org/blog/us-education-department-proposes-open-licensing-policy-part-goopen-campaign

Open Access - What Universities Should be Doing

https://www.vu.edu.au/news-events/news/open-access-what-universities-should-be-doing#goto-assessing-journals=1&goto-authorship=1&goto-measuring-impact=1&goto-understanding-what-open-means=1