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A mixed bag of open science news in this week’s round-up.

• We’ve mentioned the Open Science Q&A proposal on Stack Exchange before. They now have 58% of the required number of committed users. Commitment is minimal: if you can answer just a few questions about open science, please sign up to help them reach their goal.
• ResearchGate’s Ijad Madisch writes in The Guardian’s Higher Education Network about why we need to stop using the PDF as format for disseminating research.
• A new journal, The Journal of Brief Ideas, focuses solely on very short (200 words or less) publications. See also our own recent post about short articles.
• An open source business model for malaria, published in PLOS One, explains why malaria research benefits from open models.
• At the end of last week (just missing our previous round-up!) the Open Science Peer Review Oath was featured in The Economist. This led to lots of interesting discussions about the pros and cons of open peer review. Jon Tennant summarized some of it on Storify.
• Finally, we turned some of our previous blog posts about open science into a useful resource, the Guide to Open Science Publishing [PDF]. Thanks to everyone who shared this! It’s also perfect for printing to leave in your institute’s reading corner or lunch room.