Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication

What Open-Access Publishing Actually Costs

http://chronicle.com/article/What-Open-Access-Publishing/234108

How Journals can Help Scholars Promote and Resurface Articles

http://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/136831074678/how-journals-can-help-scholars-promote-and

These games we play (in ScholComms)

https://www.martineve.com/2016/01/08/these-games-we-play-in-scholcomms

30,000 Works of Art by Edvard Munch & Other Artists Put Online by Norway’s National Museum of Art

http://www.openculture.com/2015/10/30000-works-of-art-put-online-by-norways-national-museum-of-art.html

New York Public Library puts more than 180,000 images online

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2016/01/07/new-york-public-library-makes-some-180000-images-available-online/78401528/

Disseminating research and new open access resources (UK Environmental Health Research Network)

https://ukehrnet.wordpress.com/2016/01/08/disseminating-research-and-new-open-access-resources/\

The future of scholarly publishing

http://blog.oup.com/2015/11/future-scholarly-publishing/

Zimbabwe Plans Open Access Policy, Part Of Efforts Across Africa

http://www.ip-watch.org/2016/01/06/zimbabwe-plans-open-access-policy-part-of-efforts-across-africa/

Everything you ever wanted know about ORCID - . . . but were afraid to ask

http://crln.acrl.org/content/77/1/23.full

Requiring ORCID in Publication Workflows: Open Letter

https://orcid.org/content/requiring-orcid-publication-workflows-open-letter

Christmas is over. Research funding should go to research, not to publishers!

http://www.leru.org/files/general/LERU%20Statement%20Moving%20Forwards%20on%20Open%20Access%282%29.pdf

Juptyer Notebook web application

http://jupyter.org/

 

Predatory Practices

Nobel winner pulls out of Melb conference run by controversial Indian company

www.theage.com.au/victoria/nobel-winner-pulls-out-of-melb-conference-run-by-controversial-indian-company-20160105-glzkof.htm

Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016

http://scholarlyoa.com/2016/01/05/bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers-2016/

 

Open Science:

Five Minutes with Ulrich Herb on Open Science: “Open Science must be adapted to disciplinary specificities”

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/01/08/five-minutes-with-ulrich-herb-on-open-science-in-sociology/

 

Data and Data Management:

If You Build It, Will They Fund? Making Research Data Management Sustainable

http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2016/oclcresearch-making-research-data-management-sustainable-2016.html

Science organisations sign open data access accord

http://www.scidev.net/sub-saharan-africa/data/news/science-organisations-open-data-access-accord.html

 

Library Matters:

Future Libraries (ARUP University Report, July 2015)

http://publications.arup.com/Publications/F/Future_Libraries.aspx