Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Open access resources

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

10 Search Engines for Researchers that go beyond Google

https://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/ten-search-engines-for-researchers-that-go-beyond-google-11-jul-2013

South African Journal of Science (Jan/Feb 2016)(Open Access)

http://www.sajs.co.za/sites/default/files/Volume%20112%20Issue%201-2%20%2812MB%29.pdf

OA resources (SANLIC)

http://www.sanlic.org.za/open-access-resources

OA Resources for Social Workers

http://guides.nyu.edu/c.php?g=276932&p=1846562

Increasing Participation in Your Institutional Repository

http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2016/02/oa/increasing-participation-in-your-institutional-repository/

Open Access in Action

http://lj.libraryjournal.com/openaccessinaction

High rejection rates by journals ‘pointless’

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/high-rejection-rates-by-journals-pointless

Dutch Lead European Push to Flip Journals to Open access

http://www.nature.com/news/dutch-lead-european-push-to-flip-journals-to-open-access-1.19111

The Importance of Academic (History) Writing

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2016/01/27/the-importance-of-academic-history-writing/

Have you resolved to make peer review software a priority in the new year?

http://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/138286843353/have-you-resolved-to-make-peer-review-software-a

One Editor’s Experience Declaring Independence From A Corporate Publisher and Thoughts on the Future

http://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/136200028248/one-editors-experience-declaring-independence

How many rounds of peer review should my journal have?

http://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/137822459018/how-many-rounds-of-peer-review-should-my-journal

Announcing Improved PDF Publishing on Scholastica

http://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/134546939563/announcing-improved-pdf-publishing-on-scholastica

 

Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources (Humanities and Social Sciences)

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/OERS4Humanities

 

Data and Data Management:

Data Management and Related Resources

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

Libraries Support Data Sharing Across the Research Lifecycle

http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2016/02/oa/libraries-support-data-sharing-across-the-research-lifecycle/

OpenEdition and OpenAIRE – experiments in open peer review

https://blogs.openaire.eu/?p=658