Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Celebrate Open Access Week (22-28 October 2012).

http://openaccessweek.org/

Three Things Open Access is Not

http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2012/10/16/three-things-open-access-is-not/

The impact of open access on research and scholarship: Reflections on the Berlin 9 Open Access Conference

http://crln.acrl.org/content/73/2/83.full

Good practices for University Open Access Policies

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Good_practices_for_university_open-access_policies

How Open Is it?  New OA Toolkit

http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/howopenisit_open-review.pdf

Misleading Open Access Myths

http://www.biomedcentral.com/about/advocacy12

Access to information for deaf people

http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/springs/springs-news-municipal?oid=6353649&sn=Detail&pid=490328&Access-to-information-for-deaf-people

October 19 WIPO negotiations on copyright exceptions for disabilities

http://keionline.org/node/1571

Denton Declaration: an Open Data Manifesto

http://openaccess.unt.edu/denton_declaration

 

Persons with Visual Disabilities:

WIPO Members Inch Toward Visually Impaired Treaty

http://www.ip-watch.org/2012/10/19/minimal-progress-apparent-on-visually-impaired-treaty-text-at-wipo/

New Draft WIPO Visually Impaired Treaty Shows Progress, But “Clock Is Ticking”

http://www.ip-watch.org/2012/10/18/new-draft-wipo-visually-impaired-treaty-shows-progress-but-clock-is-ticking/

US Court Rules On Fair Use For Blind Users, Digitisation, Amid Treaty Talks

http://www.ip-watch.org/2012/10/19/us-court-rules-on-fair-use-for-blind-users-digitisation-amid-treaty-talks/

Resources for Persons with Visual Disabilities

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Resources_for_Blind_and_Visually-Impaired