Opensource.dev – Introduction to Open Source

Google has launched a new educational site at opensource.dev that offers a succinct and approachable introduction to open source software and licensing. Google believes that open source is good for everyone. By being open and freely available, it enables and…

Survey reveals Global Trends in Open Access Publishing

A survey of publishers with journals indexed in DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) has revealed surprising trends in the way that content is published; what types of organisations are publishing the content; on how publishing standards are being accepted…

OAnarchy

OAnarchy About: Perhaps the last thing that the world needs right now is another blog, but yes, we have decided to start this blog, which we are calling OAnarchy. OA for “open access,” and “anarchy” because we feel that some…

Creative Commons “CC Search” project

There is no larger compendium of shared human knowledge and creativity than the Commons, including over 1.4 billion digital works available under CC tools. Despite the tremendous growth of the Commons, and the widespread use of the CC licenses and…

African Open Science Platform

The future African Open Science Platform will be launched during the upcoming SFSA2018 (12-14 Dec. 2018, CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, SA) meeting. Please read more about the preparatory work done as part of AOSP at We also want…

What an ORCID iD Can Do For You

Original Article: The following is a guest post written by Maria Aghazarian, Digital Resources and Scholarly Communications Specialist at Swarthmore College Libraries. Chances are you already maintain some kind of scholarly presence online, whether that’s on your personal website,…

Setting up a community-based publisher; Cookbook for OA books

This book describes the experiences of setting up a community-based publisher, Language Science Press. It discusses the main principles of community-based publishing and gives a very granular breakdown of the different tasks. The discussion of the different tasks is complemented…

DASH; Open Access Repository

What is DASH? A central, open-access repository of research by members of the Harvard community. DASH enlarges the audience and impact of your work. Authors who deposit in DASH have access to on-demand metrics and receive monthly reports about their…

Pressbooks; Glossary Creation, DOI Integration

You can automatically create a glossary for your book on any Pressbooks network, add DOIs to your book’s metadata, and customize the automatic section labels for your book’s parts and chapters. Find this and more in the Pressbooks 5.6.0 update:…