Intellectual Property:

Sections of the Kenya Anti Counterfeiting Act Struck Down as a Threat to Fundamental Human Rights

http://www.iqsensato.org/blog/2012/04/23/kenya-anti-counterfeiting-act-struck-down/

IP Dynamics in Africa’s Informal Economies

http://www.iqsensato.org/blog/2010/11/26/ip-dynamics-in-africas-informal-economies/

  

Open Access, A2K, Research & Scholarly Communication:

What is open access and why should we care?

http://theconversation.edu.au/what-is-open-access-and-why-should-we-care-11608

Freedom for Scholarship in the Internet Age

http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/2012/12/12/freedom-for-scholarship-in-the-internet-age-post-defence-version/

Research Data Curation Bibliography

http://digital-scholarship.org/rdcb/rdcb.htm

Do we still need Libraries?

http://jpalfrey.andover.edu/2012/12/30/do-we-still-need-libraries/

Planting the Green Seeds for a Golden Harvest

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january13/houghton/01houghton.print.html

To Make Open Access Work, We Need to Do More Than Liberate Journal Articles

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/01/we-need-more-than-releasing-articles-to-make-open-access-work/

Cost Effectiveness of Open Access publications

http://www.eigenfactor.org/openaccess/CostEffectiveness.pdf

Q&A: Martin Eve on Why We Need a Public Library of the Humanities and Social Sciences

http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/01/oa/qa-martin-eve-on-why-we-need-a-public-library-of-the-humanities-and-social-sciences/

Bogus New OA Publisher Association Attempts to Compete with OASPA

http://scholarlyoa.com/2013/01/09/bogus-new-oa-publisher-association-attempts-to-compete-with-oaspa/

Should Journalists Cite Material from Predatory Journals? 

http://scholarlyoa.com/2013/01/08/should-journalists-cite-material-from-predatory-journals/ 

Conference Podcasts/Presentations from The Future of Academic Impacts conference (2012)

  in Decehttp://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/01/11/impact-conference-2012/ 

 

Information Literacy:

National Forum on Information Literacy (USA)

http://infolit.org/

Information Abundance and Its Implications for Education

http://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2012/12/09/information-abundance-implications-for-education/

 

Conference alerts:

5thInternational IPR Conference GIPC 2013

23-30 January 2013 - Bangalore, India

http://www.iprconference.com/

Open Research Conference

 6 & 7 February 2013 - The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

https://sites.google.com/site/nzauopenresearch/home