Open Educational Resources:

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) – Innovation that is Transforming Education (2013)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s06jdfy2Ws4

OERS & MOOCS

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Open_Educational_Resources

 

Internet Neutrality

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Tells Silicon Valley He's Open To Obama Net Neutrality Plan

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/12/tom-wheeler-net-neutrality_n_6146720.html

Italy Launches its Internet Bill of Rights for Public Discussion

https://webwewant.org/news/Italy_launches_its_Internet_Bill_of_Rights_Public_Discussion_

 

Libraries and eBooks

Library Consortium Tests Interlibrary Loans of e-Books

http://chronicle.com/article/Library-Consortium-Tests/144743/

What We Can Learn From The Adobe E-Reader Mess

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/what-we-can-learn-adobe-e-reader-mess

The Need for Interlibrary Lending in an eBook Environment (ALIA)

https://www.alia.org.au/sites/default/files/ALIA-Ebook-Interlibrary-Lending-Report.pdf

 

Predatory Publishing Practices

Predatory journals and defective peer review are general academic problems, not just open access problems.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/10/07/whos-afraid-of-open-access/

6 Ways to Identify Predatory OA Publishers

http://www.slideshare.net/TAAAuthors/6-waysoa-journalbeall-slideshare

Predatory and deceptive publishing practices now target nurses

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2327-6924.12193/pdf

CRS Standards Forum: Predatory Publishing and the ISSN Center’s Response

http://www.ala.org/alctsnews/conf/mw14-crs-standards

Predatory open access journals in a performance-based funding model: Common journals in Beall’s list and in the VABB-SH (2014)

https://www.ecoom.be/sites/ecoom.be/files/downloads/POA.pdf

Open access, predatory publishing and peer-review

http://www.pharmacypractice.org/journal/index.php/pp/article/view/427

Predatory Publishers

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/openaccess_a2k_scholarly_communication (under OA Publishing)