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Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:
Elsevier’s Open Access Controversy: German Researchers Resign to Register Protest
https://www.enago.com/academy/move-boycott-elsevier-journals-deal-near-dead/
SpringerNature and Macmillan: one company, two directions: open access and IP maximization
ALA denounces new Macmillan library lending model, urges library customers to voice objections
Textbook Spending Continues Slow Decline
Using ORCID to Re-imagine Research Attribution
https://orcid.org/blog/2019/07/25/using-orcid-re-imagine-research-attribution
Rescognito
https://rescognito.com/0000-0002-8591-3276
Open Syllabus
What does local use of Sci-Hub look like?
Library Provision of Intellectual Access to Open Access Journal Articles
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0361526X.2019.1628161
The Case Against the Conventional Publication of Academic and Scientific Books
https://philpapers.org/archive/BARTCA-37.pdf
Guest Post — Building Pipes and Fixing Leaks: Demystifying and Decoding Scholarly Information Discovery & Interchange
Can Openly Accessible E- Theses Be Published as Monographs? A Short Survey of Academic Publishers
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0361526X.2019.1589633
Open Science/Open Data:
Significant economic benefits? Enhancing the impact of open science for knowledge users
The Economic Impacts of Open Science: A Rapid Evidence Assessment
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/201905.0302/v1
Open Science included in New Serbian Law
https://www.eifl.net/news/open-science-included-new-serbian-law
RDA and COAR Collaborate to Progress Research Data Management Internationally
How badly do authors want open access? What priorities do authors really have? Bringing data to the discussion
Creating Value through Open Data (European Commission)
https://www.europeandataportal.eu/sites/default/files/edp_creating_value_through_open_data_0.pdf
European Data Portal