Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Open Access Article Processing Charges: DOAJ Survey May 2014

http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/3/1/1

All that glitters (Gold OA)

http://www.nature.com/news/all-that-glitters-1.17266

RefMe - referencing made easy

https://www.refme.com/#/

Zenodo –Research Shared

http://zenodo.org

Online Citation and Reference Management Tools – Research Evaluation Metrics

https://www.academia.edu/11644921/Online_Citation_and_Reference_Management_Tools

New Roles for the Road Ahead

http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/publications/whitepapers/new_roles_75th.pdf

What happened to millions of Creative Commons licensed photos in flickr?

http://bryanalexander.org/2015/04/06/what-happened-to-millions-of-creative-commons-licensed-photos-in-flickr/

Science Is Ignoring its "Publication Pollution" Problem

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/04/science-has-publication-pollution-problem

Dramatic Growth of Open Access 2015 first quarter

http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2015/04/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-2015.html

Many Small Open Access Journal Publishers do not charge APCs

http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2015/02/20/many-small-open-access-journals-publishers-do-not-charge-apcs/

PASTEUR401/Open Access to Research Data

http://www.pasteur4oa.eu/news/108#.VST6KU_9mHt

Directions in Research Management in UK Universities

http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/5951/4/JR0034_RDM_report_200315_v5.pdf

Paying the Bills with Open Access

https://inquisitiverockhopper.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/paying-the-bills-with-open-access/

 

Open Educational Resources:

OERS – uniquely African Drivers?

http://lauraczerniewicz.co.za/2015/03/oers-uniquely-african-drivers/

Edutopia

http://www.edutopia.org/open-educational-resources-guide

Share My Lesson - Inspire. Be inspired.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqUgXnY2ycs&list=PLvzOwE5lWqhQ62m4W2B-cNANQWwI80684#t=10

 

Conference alerts:

School Librarians’ Conference 2015

19-22 April 2015 – St. John’s College, Houghton, Johannesburg

http://www.stjohnscollege.co.za/eventsSchoolLibrarians2015

 

PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2015

11-14 August, Vancouver, Canada

http://pkp.sfu.ca/pkp2015/