Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Knowledge Unlatched Announces Transformation: An Interview with Sven Fund

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/10/09/knowledge-unlatched-announces-transformation-interview-sven-fund/?informz=1

Why make a statement? Why now?

https://beprexit.wordpress.com/2017/10/11/why-make-a-statement/

Part 3-  Scholarly collaboration networks: are they (h)arming open access?

https://blog.research-publishing.net/part-3-scholarly-collaboration-networks-are-they-h-arming-open-access-fda1a85ad675

Governance, Engagement, and Resistance in the Open Science Movement: A Comparative Study

https://ropensci.org/blog/blog/2017/10/06/sholler-plan

The Case for Open Access Research with Peter Suber from the Harvard Open Access Project

https://digipub.simplecast.fm/43b13709

Making Research Matter: A Public Challenge to Scholars

https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2017/10/12/scholars-need-use-their-research-more-effectively-weigh-public-issues-day-essay

Why Open Source and Open Access Go Great Together

https://medium.com/flockademic/why-open-source-and-open-access-go-great-together-75e31b630efc

Springer Nature plans 'co-operation' with ResearchGate

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/researchgate-plans-co-operation-springer-nature-648281

A genealogy of open access: negotiations between openness and access to research

https://hcommons.org/deposits/objects/hc:15702/datastreams/CONTENT/content

Afghanistan will soon have free mobile access to Wikipedia

https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/09/afgahnistan-free-mobile-access-to-wikipedia/

 

Training Workshop:

Managing Digital Repositories: the past and the future workshop 2017

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

18-20 October 2017

https://adlsn.org/auc2017/

Free ASIRA Online Course Access to Scientific Information Resources (Apply by 15 October 2017)

http://aims.fao.org/activity/blog/apply-15-october-free-asira-online-course-access-scientific-information-resources