Intellectual Property:

Copyright and Copy-Reliant Technology

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1257086

 

Open Educational Resources:

OER Policy Review and Development Toolkit

http://www.oerafrica.org/understandingoer/ResourcesonOER/ResourceDetails/tabid/1424/mctl/Details/id/39083/Default.aspx

 

Traditional Knowledge 

LibGuide on Traditional Knowledge, IP and A2K

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/TraditionalKnowledge 

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Institutional repositories and the problem of versions

http://deborahfitchett.blogspot.com/2012/05/institutional-repositories-and-problem.html

Hindawi’s ISRN Brand Offers to Pay for Articles

http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/06/12/hindawis-isrn-brand-offers-to-pay-for-articles/

Pushing the Frontier of Access for Text Mining: A Conversation with Heather Piwowar on One Researcher’s Attempt to Break New Ground

http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/pushing-frontier-access-for-text-mining-Piwowar-interview.shtml

Opinion: Academia suppresses creativity

http://the-scientist.com/2012/05/09/opinion-academia-suppresses-creativity/

Open access publishing should not favour those with deep pockets

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/may/09/open-access-publishing-deep-pockets

Shared Initiative To Develop Quality Indicators For Emerging (Open Access) Journals

http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_nieuws&item=3538

New ALA report explores challenges of equitable access to digital content

http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/ala/new-ala-report-explores-challenges-equitable-access-digital-content

Digital Curation Bibliography Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works

http://digital-scholarship.org/dcpb/dcb.pdf

Value proposition in Institutional Repositories

http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/value-proposition-institutional-repositories

Looking at Resource Sharing Costs

http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/bitstream/1808/9655/1/ICS%20Paper%20Leon%20Kress.pdf

Argentina takes steps towards open access law

http://www.scidev.net/en/science-communication/open-access/news/argentina-takes-steps-towards-open-access-law.html

50 Top Library Blogs

http://salempress.com/green/blogs/blog_vote_2012.php

 

Conference alerts-  2012 and 2013:

Indigenous Development Research Conference 2012

27-30 June 2012 - , Auckland, New Zealand

http://www.indigenousdevelopment2012.ac.nz/programme-sessions

World Library and Information Congress

78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly

11-17 August 2012, Helsinki, Finland

http://conference.ifla.org/ifla78

8th International Digital Curation Conference

"Infrastructure, Intelligence, Innovation: driving the Data Science agenda"

14 - 16 January 2013 - Mövenpick Hotel, Amsterdam City Centre, Amsterdam

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc13

World Library and Information Congress

79th IFLA General Conference and Assembly

17-23 August 2013, Singapore

http://conference.ifla.org/ifla79