Intellectual Property:

Representatives Urge White House Support Public Access Federally Funded Research

http://doyle.house.gov/press-release/representatives-urge-white-house-support-public-access-federally-funded-research

Notes on the US Federal Research Public Access Act

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Notes_on_the_Federal_Research_Public_Access_Act

Library E-Books Part II: A Bit About DRM & How to Download Free Library E-Books to a Kindle

http://sscltech.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/library-e-books-part-ii-a-bit-about-drm-how-to-download-free-library-e-books-to-a-kindle/

 

Mobile Technologies, M-Learning & Social Media:

UNESCO Working Paper Series on Mobile Learning

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/themes/icts/m4ed/mobile-learning-resources/unescomobilelearningseries/

A List of Interesting Mobile Learning Links

http://www.upsidelearning.com/blog/index.php/2012/05/28/a-list-of-interesting-mobile-learning-links/

Was 2011 the Year of Mobile?

http://www.triballabs.net/2012/05/was-2011-the-year-of-mobile/

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

The inevitability of open access

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/06/28/the-inevitability-of-open-access/

Digital Scholarship OA Books

http://digital-scholarship.org/

NLTD ETD Award Winners 2012

http://www.ndltd.org/events_and_awards/awards/NDLTD%20ETD%20Awards%202012%20Winners.pdf

Credit, time, and personality: The human challenges to sharing scholarly work using Web 2.0

http://cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/publications.php?id=414

Wellcome Trust strengthens its open access policy

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/Media-office/Press-releases/2012/WTVM055745.htm

OA Tracking Project

http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_tracking_project

 

Open Educational Resources (OERs)

Paris Declaration on OER

http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/Events/Paris%20OER%20Declaration_01.pdf

Experts to Assess impact of Open Courseware for Higher Education

http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=2492&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

 

Conference Alert:

15th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD 2012)

12-14 September 2012 – Peru, South America.

http://www.etd2012.edu.pe/en/index.asp

 

Online Digital Course (late 2012)

http://digitalcuration.umaine.edu/

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/28/4596115/proquest-and-calis-unlock-global.html