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• OpenCon is almost upon us! If you’re not attending the main event in Brussels, check the site for a local event near you, or watch the livestream this weekend. You can find some of us at the London satellite event next week!
• Mendeley launched Mendeley Data, a new place where you can share your research data under an open license and get a DOI.
• The Center for Philanthropic Studies at VU Amsterdam is moving to an Open Science system. Rene Bekkers explains on his blog what the four main benefits are for the research group to publish their work openly.
• The recommended license for open access articles is CC-BY (explained here), but what happens if someone sells your CC-BY article on Amazon? This happened to Daniel Lakens, and he found a creative solution. However, in the comments on his post readers pointed out that reselling might have violated the terms of the CC-BY license after all if the ebook didn’t include a mention of the license!
• Finally, some more cheerful news. Raphael Levy signed a peer review report for a journal where it wasn’t mandatory, and got a great response:

What happens when you sign your #peerreview? Sometimes this: pic.twitter.com/LHRdfwFvxE

— Raphael Levy (@raphavisses) November 12, 2015