Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Open Access Images

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

Open Data

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

Altmetrics for Researchers

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

The Feedback Loop Between Open access and Altmetrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLY3T_zeEm4&feature=youtu.be

Why the Digitization of Dissertations and Theses is Important to Researchers, Universities AND Libraries

http://www.proquest.com/blog/pqblog/2015/DISS2015-Why-Digitization-is-Important-to-All.html

What is the Scholarly Book of the Future? Julia Mortimer from Policy Press reflects

http://blog.alpsp.org/2015/01/what-is-scholarly-book-of-future-julia.html

Major HEFCE study of monographs and open access sheds light on complex issues

http://www.hefce.ac.uk/news/newsarchive/2015/news99909.html

How can we protect our information in the era of cloud computing

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/how-can-we-protect-our-information-in-the-era-of-cloud-computing

Nature Publishing Group moves to CC BY 4.0 as default for open access journals

http://www.stm-publishing.com/nature-publishing-group-moves-to-cc-by-4-0-as-default-for-open-access-journals/

Librarians urge publishers: get your metadata out there, everywhere

http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=1818

Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age (Philippe Aigrain)(can download book)

http://oapen.org/search?identifier=409602

Case Studies on OA

http://www.pasteur4oa.eu/resources

Open Access and Authors: Two Questions for the Future

http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/UKSG/338/Open-access-and-authors-two-questions-for-the-future/?n=121b8a3f-e721-4bc0-8354-7ad4d47f99de

Thinking about monographs in a world of open access

http://blog.hefce.ac.uk/2015/01/22/thinking-about-monographs-in-a-world-of-open-access/

Cobweb – can the Internet be archived?

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/26/cobweb

 

Data & Data Management:

The Dark Side Of Open Data: It's Not Only How Much You Publish, But How And Why

http://www.forbes.com/sites/federicoguerrini/2015/01/27/the-dark-side-of-open-data-its-not-only-how-much-you-open-but-how-and-why/

 

ERRATA NOTE:

Correcting an incorrect link in a previous newsletter

Surprising Commons

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2551265