1. Aaron Swartz and the Assault on Open Information
   Malicious Government Prosecution
   Resource Type: Article
   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. Media Names & Numbers
   Your Connection to the Media
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   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.
   
3. Meet the Robin Hood of Science
   Resource Type: Article
   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.
4. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2016
   Back to School
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2016
   Education - about the world, and about social change in particular - is a key element in the work that Connexions does. In this issue of Other Voices, we explore a few aspects of the ways in which education and educational institutions are changing. We also look at ways in which education is used to bring about change.
5. The Oxford Guide to Library Research - Review
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1998
   An excellent guide to doing research, explaining research methods and strategies and their strengths and weaknesses of. See review in Sources Select Resources.
6. Public Library of Science (PLOS)
   Resource Type: Website
   The PLOS mission is to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication. Everything that we publish is open-access – freely available online for anyone to use. Sharing research encourages progress, from protecting the biodiversity of our planet to finding more effective treatments for diseases such as cancer.
7. Scholarpedia
   Resource Type: Website
   Published: 2006
   Scholarpedia is a peer-reviewed encyclopedia written by the leading experts in their respective fields. It does not publish "research" or "position" papers, but rather "living reviews" that will be maintained by the future generation of experts via the process of curatorship. The (ambitious) goal of Scholarpedia is that of being an understandable and useful encyclopedic reference for scholars of different levels.
8. Too Much To Know
   Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2010
   A study of Latin reference works compiled in the Middle Ages and Renaissance when digests and compendia containing quotations, excerpts and precis of works of the canon were a popular source of knowledge.

Experts on Scholarly/Professional Journals in the Sources Directory

1. Media Names & Numbers