Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

COAR Guidelines for Assessing Publisher Repository Services

https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/advocacy-leadership/statements-and-guidelines/coar-guidelines-for-assessing-publisher-repository-services/

Announcing the Open Access Spectrum (OAS) Evaluation Tool

http://www.sparc.arl.org/blog/announcing-open-access-spectrum-oas-evaluation-tool

http://www.oaspectrum.org/api

A New and Stunning Metric from NIH Reveals the Real Nature of Scientific Impact

http://www.ascb.org/nature-of-scientific-impact/

iCite Beta

https://icite.od.nih.gov/

Groundbreaking University of California policy extends free access to all scholarly articles written by UC employees

http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2015/10/groundbreaking-presidential-oa-policy-covers-all-employees/

UC Presidential Open Access Policy

http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/open-access-policy/policy-text/presidential/

Publisher Communications about the UC OA Policies

http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/open-access-policy/publisher-communications/

 

Scholarly Publishing Issues:

Entire editorial staff of Elsevier journal Lingua resigns over high price, lack of open access

http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2015/11/entire-editorial-staff-of-elsevier-journal-lingua-resigns-over-high-price-lack-of-open-access/

The Cost of Knowledge

http://thecostofknowledge.com/

APLU Statement on Resignation of Lingua’s Editors & Editorial Board Members in Protest of Elsevier’s Pricing Policies

http://www.aplu.org/news-and-media/News/aplu-statement-on-resignation-of-linguas-editors--editorial-board-members-in-protest-of-elseviers-pricing-policies

Addressing the resignation of the Lingua editorial board – Elsevier

https://www.elsevier.com/connect/addressing-the-resignation-of-the-lingua-editorial-board