1. Aaron Swartz and the Assault on Open Information
   Malicious Government Prosecution
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   The great corporate-supported push to hide essential, publicly funded information behind private firewalls and government secrecy, represents a breathtaking breach of the basic tenets of democracy..
2. EducationSources.ca
   Resource Type: Website
   First Published: 2017
   Web portal with sources of information about education and academia, including articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
3. Media Names & Numbers
   Your Connection to the Media
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 2000   Published: 2009
   A comprehensive directory of the Canadian news media, including television and radio stations and programs, daily, weekly, ethnic and campus newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and academic journals. Media Names & Numbers is indexed by subject, and is available in print and electronic formats. An annual subscription includes a print directory and access to the continuously updated online version.
   
4. Meet the Robin Hood of Science
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2016
   The tale of how one researcher has made nearly every scientific paper ever published available for free to anyone, anywhere in the world. On September 5th, 2011, Alexandra Elbakyan, a researcher from Kazakhstan, created Sci-Hub, a website that bypasses journal paywalls, providing access to nearly every scientific paper ever published immediately to anyone who wants it.
5. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 23, 2016
   Science and its enemies
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 2016
   Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of the equally sincere lip service they pay to the ideals of democracy. And, in the same way that governments and private corporations devote considerable efforts to undermining the reality of democracy, so too they are frequently found trying to block and subvert science when the evidence it produces runs counter to their interests. Real live scientists doing real live science, it seems, are not nearly as loveable as Science in the abstract.
6. Philosophy journal spoofed, retracts hoax article
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2016
   A philosophy journal that focuses on the teachings of philosopher Alain Badiou has apparently fallen victim to yet another Sokal hoax, and has retracted a fake article submitted by authors trying to expose the publication's weaknesses. The paper, "Ontology, Neutrality and the Strive for (non-)Being-Queer," attributed to Benedetta Tripodi of the Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza in Romania, is apparently the work of two academics, who submitted the absurd article to Badiou Studies to expose its lack of rigor in accepting papers.
7. 'Radical Academia: Beyond the Audit Culture Treadmill'
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   It was not just in economics that the radicals retreated; it happened in all the social sciences and humanities. And not just because of political timidity; they had been outflanked. Knowledge production had changed in ways that disadvantaged radicals.
8. Scientific journal retracts study exposing GM cancer risk
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   The Journal of Food and Chemical Toxicology appears to have violated scientific standards by withdrawing a study which found that rats fed on a Monsanto GM corn were more likely to develop cancer than controls.
9. Scientists pledge to boycott Elsevier
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   Following the retraction of the Seralini et al scientific paper which found health damage to rats fed on GM corn, over 100 scientists have pledged in this Open Letter to boycott Elsevier, publisher of the journal responsible.
10. Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The world, it seems, cannot get enough of Sokal-type hoaxes. A French journal, Sociétés, has retracted an article allegedly penned by one Jean-Marc Tremblay but actually written by two sociologists, Manuel Quinon and Arnaud Saint-Martin, who spoofed the work of the journal's editor, Michel Maffesoli.
11. Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
    In rich and poor countries, researchers turn to the Sci-Hub website
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Researchers are increasingly turning to Sci-Hub, the world's largest largest 'pirate' website for scholarly literature. Sci-Hub is becoming the world's de facto open-access research library.

Experts on Fachzeitschriften in the Sources Directory

1. The British Library
2. Media Names & Numbers