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Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:
Wellcome Trust to introduce stricter open access rules
'Plan S' Aims to Transform Scholarly Communication—Will Publishers Be Ready?
Reaction of Researchers to Plan S
https://zenodo.org/record/1477914#.W-Ks5JMzbDc
Open Access, Academic Freedom, and the Spectrum of Coercive Power
Scholarly publishing: EUA asks European Commission to investigate lack of competition
OpenAIRE becomes a fully fledged organisation
https://www.openaire.eu/openaire-organisation-in-the-making
PhD theses – drawing attention to the often overlooked articles in open access repositories
Sci-Hub; the Librarian’s response
https://copyrightliteracy.org/2018/10/26/sci-hub-the-librarians-response/
Paywall: The Business of Scholarship (video)
The Art Institute of Chicago Is the Latest Museum to Offer Open Access to Thousands of Images in Its Archive
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-institute-chicago-offers-open-access-44000-images-1377739
Do authors comply when funders enforce open access to research?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07101-w
Author Perspectives on Academic Publishing: Global Survey 2018
https://www.editage.com/files/Editage-Global-Author-Survey.pdf
An A-Z list of scholarly publishing and open science platforms (Updated 27 July 2018)
https://digital.bmj.com/an-almost-a-z-list-of-publishing-platform-providers/
Conflicted Views of Technology: A Survey of Faculty Attitudes
For genuinely open social science texts, the disguised elitism of citing paywall sources is no longer good enough
Three hundred and sixty years of United States caselaw
Innovative dissemination methods: Good practices and lessons learned
A New Digital Tool for Looking at Bruegel
http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/a-new-digital-tool-for-looking-at-bruegel/
Is Open Content Enough? Where OER Advocates Say the Movement Must Go Next
Africa's contribution to the global open access literature
http://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2656
Affordable Open Access: There's a way, now we need a will
https://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/affordable-open-access-now-we-need-a-will/
TRANSPOSE (TRANsparency in Scholarly Publishing for Open Scholarship Evolution)
https://transpose-publishing.github.io/