Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:
It’s Time for Academics to Take Back Control of Research Journals

https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2017/may/25/its-time-for-academics-to-take-back-control-of-research-journals

In their own words: academics talk about open access

https://aoasg.org.au/2017/05/03/in-their-own-words-academics-talk-about-open-access/

 [MTC Global] Forbes~ Dear Scholars, Delete Your Account At Academia.Edu

http://bux-toweb.blogspot.co.za/2017/05/mtc-global-forbes-dear-scholars-delete.html

The UK Scholarly Communications Licence – supporting academics with open access

https://zenodo.org/record/375830#.WS_faJKGPIU

Detours and Diversions — Do Open Access Publishers Face New Barriers?

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/05/31/detours-and-diversions-do-open-access-publishers-face-new-barriers/

MIT Press teams with Internet Archive and Arcadia to provide access to hundreds of backlist titles

http://news.mit.edu/2017/mit-press-teams-with-internet-archive-arcadia-to-digitize-hundreds-of-backlist-titles-0530

Website Flags Wrongly Paywalled Papers

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/49544/title/Website-Flags-Wrongly-Paywalled-Papers/

How upset should we get when articles are paywalled by mistake

http://retractionwatch.com/2017/05/31/how-upset-should-we-get-when-articles-are-paywalled-by-mistake/

In their own words: academics talk about open access

https://aoasg.org.au/2017/05/03/in-their-own-words-academics-talk-about-open-access/

Why does ORCID matter?

http://aims.fao.org/es/activity/blog/why-does-orcid-matter

Aligning Repository Networks International Accord

https://www.coar-repositories.org/files/2017-Aligning-Repository-Networks-Accord-1.pdf

Open Access – Publish and Flourish

https://www.slideshare.net/HaleyKrag/open-access-publish-and-flourish

 

Predatory Publishing Practices:

Pay-to-view blacklist of predatory journals set to launch

https://www.nature.com/news/pay-to-view-blacklist-of-predatory-journals-set-to-launch-1.22090

Find out more about predatory publishing practices

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/openaccess_a2k_scholarly_communication/Predatory_Publishers

 

Traditional Knowledge Issues:

Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore

Thirty-Fourth Session, Geneva, June 12 to 16, 2017

Draft Program for 34th Session

http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/tk/en/wipo_grtkf_ic_34/wipo_grtkf_ic_34_inf_3.pdf