Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Open Citations: Who’s Citing Who in Peer Reviewed Journals?

https://www.enago.com/academy/open-citations-whos-citing-who-in-peer-reviewed-journals/

Embracing #open

http://www.itwebafrica.com/companynews/782-opencollab/237725-embracing-open

Fewer Americans Are Visiting Local Libraries—and Technology Isn't to Blame

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/americans-like-their-libraries-but-they-use-them-less-and-less-pew/477336/

This Browser Extension Will Help You Read Paywalled Science Papers for Free

http://gizmodo.com/this-browser-extension-will-help-you-read-science-paper-1794460088

Discover “Unpaywall,” a New (and Legal) Browser Extension That Lets You Read Millions of Science Articles Normally Locked Up Behind Paywalls

http://www.openculture.com/2017/04/unpaywall-a-new-and-legal-browser-extension-that-lets-you-read-millions-of-science-articles.html

Guidelines on the Implementation of Open Access to Scientific Publications and Research Data in projects supported by the European Research Council under Horizon 2020 - - 7 April 2017)

https://erc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/document/file/ERC%20Open%20Access%20guidelines-Version%201.1._10.04.2017.pdf

UCSF Archives $315,000 to digitize AIDS archives

https://www.library.ucsf.edu/news/neh-awards-ucsf-archives-315000-to-digitize-aids-archives/

Rogue approaches to scholarly communication

https://bryanalexander.org/2017/04/17/rogue-approaches-to-scholarly-communication/

Florida State University publishes its first open-access digital textbook

http://news.fsu.edu/news/education-society/2017/04/19/florida-state-university-publishes-first-open-access-digital-textbook/

Environmental Sciences: Open Access for an Open Issue

http://blogs.springeropen.com/springeropen/2017/04/21/environmental-sciences-open-access-open-issue/

New World, Same Model | Periodicals Price Survey 2017

http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2017/04/publishing/new-world-same-model-periodicals-price-survey-2017/#_

 

Open Educational Resources:

Open Educational Resources: Some Basics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p1jsMeuq8g

Turning Point for OER Use?

https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2017/04/19/new-yorks-decision-spend-8-million-oer-turning-point