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This week’s open science news includes a lot of great reading material, so grab a hot drink of choice and start your weekend with some articles and blog posts.

• “We have arrived at the juncture where medicine and science need new vehicles for the dissemination of knowledge” writes Harlan Krumholz in an editorial called The End of Journals, published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Qualities and Outcomes.
• Related to this same topic, the resignation of the entire editorial board of Elsevier-run Lingua to start a new, open access, journal got Cameron Neylon thinking about what the assets of a journal are. The editorial board? The publisher?
• A review of 18 months of using open badges in the journal Psychological Science concludes that “conducting research consistent with open practices is now a popular approach for many authors who publish their work in Psychological Science.”
• Opening the black box of scholarly communication funding. “In this paper we present work to trace and reassemble a picture of financial flows around the publication of journals in the UK in the midst of a national shift towards open access.”
• “How to run an open source science project” by Billy Meinke and “Helping students develop a theory of scientific mind” by Richard Morey are both blog posts based on the authors’ conference workshops/talks that focused on general “best practice” methods for open science.

In addition, for a somewhat less comfortable read (lots of scrolling…) we also found a few Storify recaps of this week’s Open Con events. Here’s a collection of tweets from the main event in Brussels, and a summary of the London satellite event.