I have encountered users (and myself) who feel that at times when clicking on links it can be surprising when things open in a new window or tab and they didn't expect that action.
I believe it would be useful to inform users that you will open that link or that button opens in a new tab or window.
Is providing this feedback generally assumed to be valuable, and if it is what are some novel ways to inform users that the link opens in a new tab or window?
So there are alot of icons for this for buttons like the following
but what about in the scenario for plain text links? A hover icon comes to mind but that wouldnt be provide feedback for most touch devices( mobile, tablets etc).
Answer
Yes, it's good to inform users
...particularly if there are mixed links on the page (some open in new tabs and some don't).
One popular way to denote new-tab links inline is to use an icon as follows: 
If you're developing using CSS, this can be done in a way that fails gracefully for text-only or accessibility browsers. You can insert an :after sprite, inline img tag, or render the tag using padding and a background image...depending on what you are trying to accomplish.
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