Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Universities seek united front in open access debate (South Africa)

http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20160513141336221

Dakar Declaration on Open Access Publishing in Africa and the Global South

http://codesria.org/spip.php?article2595

An introduction to the preservation of the scholarly communication record by academic libraries

http://staff.lib.sun.ac.za/~hgibson/

Elsevier acquires the Social Science Research Network SSRN: the leading social science and humanities repository and online community

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/elsevier-acquires-the-social-science-research-network-ssrn-the-leading-social-science-and-humanities-repository-and-online-community-579752311.html

Elsevier: the world’s largest open access publisher as of May 2016

https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2016/05/13/elsevier-now-the-worlds-largest-open-access-publisher/

Fifty Shades of Open

http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6360/5460

A scholarly divide: Social media, Big Data, and unattainable scholarship

http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6358/5511

Better Sharing Through Licences? Measuring the Influence of Creative Commons Licenses on the Usage of Open Access Monographs

http://jlsc-pub.org/articles/abstract/10.7710/2162-3309.1187/

It’s time to bust the myth that Africa doesn’t produce scientific innovators

https://theconversation.com/its-time-to-bust-the-myth-that-africa-doesnt-produce-scientific-innovators-58087

Research Data Sharing and Reuse Practices of Academic Faculty Researchers: A Study of the Virginia Tech Data Landscape

http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/10.2.157

Did I just ‘make’ all of APA Open Access?

http://onsnetwork.org/chartgerink/2016/05/15/did-i-just-make-all-of-apa-open-access/

The Case for Open Review

https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2016/05/16/open-peer-review-journal-articles-offers-significant-benefits-essay

The Google Books Project is Lawful

http://kluwercopyrightblog.com/2016/05/16/the-google-books-project-is-lawful/