Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Top 5 Digital Collections 2014

https://digitallibraryreview.wordpress.com/2014/12/26/2014-top-5-list/

OA Books

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

OA Journals

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

OA DHET Accredited Journals (South Africa) (as at 2014)

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

11 Google Tricks That Will Change the Way You Search

http://time.com/3581399/google-search/

IRSpace - Search South African institutional repositories 

http://tinyurl.com/olybu96

Chile’s Oldest Film Archive Digitizes and Makes 150 Historic Films Available For Download or Streaming Online

http://www.infodocket.com/2014/12/28/chiles-oldest-film-archive-digitizes-and-makes-150-historic-films-available-for-download-or-streaming-online/

Access to Knowledge as Human Rights

http://infojustice.org/archives/33724

Public Domain Day 2015 : Ending our Own Enclosures

http://everybodyslibraries.com/2015/01/01/public-domain-day-2015-ending-our-own-enclosures/

Can Open Access be done right?

http://tenthmedieval.wordpress.com/2014/12/22/can-open-access-be-done-right/

Can Open Access Save the Scholarly Monograph? ALA Midwinter Spotlight

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/64976-can-open-access-save-the-scholarly-monograph-ala-midwinter-spotlight.html

UNESCO launches Open Access Curricula for Researchers and Librarians

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/news-and-in-focus-articles/all-news/news/unesco_launches_open_access_curricula_for_researchers_and_librarians/#.VJdBU4AwN8

The risk of open access becoming integrated into existing commercial publishing - the need of a global system of non-commercial open access scholarly communications

http://www.reciis.icict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/article/view/982/1856

The Forever Decline: Academia’s Monograph Crisis

http://openscience.com/the-forever-decline-academias-monograph-crisis/

The “Wild West” of Academic Publishing

http://harvardmagazine.com/2015/01/the-wild-west-of-academic-publishing

Nature’s Shareware Moment

http://del-fi.org/post/104125242971/natures-shareware-moment

Doing Better with Open Access Advocacy

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014/12/18/doing-better-with-open-access-advocacy/

What really happens when you  open up access to the results of research? (PPT)

http://www.sparc.arl.org/sites/default/files/presentation_files/ICT%202013.pdf

The Durham Statement Two Years Later: Open Access in the Law School Journal Environment

http://www.aallnet.org/mm/Publications/llj/LLJ-Archives/Vol-103/2011-01/2011-02.pdf

Open Access Movement Broadens, Moves Forward: 2014 in Review

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/12/2014-review-open-access-broadens-moves-forward

Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness, by Nathaniel Tkacz

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/books/wikipedia-and-the-politics-of-openness-by-nathaniel-tkacz/2017640.article

Aaron Swartz's Work, Computer Crime Law, and "The Internet's Own Boy

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/08/aaron-swarts-work-internets-own-boy

Open Access and the Humanities (book)

https://ia902700.us.archive.org/20/items/OAHum/OAHum.pdf;  Review – see: http://blogs.lt.vt.edu/openvt/2014/12/30/book-review-open-access-and-the-humanities/

Scientists have a Sharing Problem

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/12/scientists-have-a-sharing-problem/383061/

The ultimate guide to staying up-to-date on your articles’ impact

http://blog.impactstory.org/ultimate-guide-for-articles/

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Open Access Research Communicators

http://cssp-jnu.blogspot.in/2015/01/the-7-habits-of-highly-effective-open.html

Practical Guide : How to Make Your Research Gets Published in the Right Place

http://www.slideshare.net/deanrathbone5/targeting-journals