Reading some of the most interesting articles and blog posts on open issues is even more interesting when you can talk about them afterward with friends!  Reading groups (sometimes also known as journal clubs) can take many forms, but readings are usually assigned a week or two before meeting, and the group comes together to discuss the article or book.  If you are hosting a recurring reading group, people can take turns “leading” the meetings: presenting the main points of the paper, and then facilitating discussion afterward.

There are many interesting reading materials on the internet, but if you need a few articles to get started, we have some introductory recommendations here.

Journal Articles

• How open science helps researchers succeed

• Why Science Is Not Necessarily Self-Correcting

• Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research

Blogs & Online News Articles - Selected Recent Articles (August/September 2016)

• Elsevier Patents Online Peer Review

• The current system of knowledge dissemination isn’t working and Sci-Hub is merely a symptom of the problem

• Building an Institutional Open Access Policy in Nepal

• Copyright is not a divine right

• Disambiguating post-publication peer review

• Doing science has just gotten even harder

Books / Book Chapters

• Open Access (Suber, 2012)

• The End of College

• Biohackers: The Politics of Open Science

• Free Culture (Lawrence Lessig)

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