Intellectual Property:

Free Book for Librarians on Copyright

http://www.academicearth.org/

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

What is Open Access?

https://cptc.instructure.com/courses/787988/wiki/open-access-scientific-publications-explained?module_item_id=4633359

Webometrics for African repositories

http://repositories.webometrics.info/en/Africa

Connecting the Economy: access to knowledge is vital for progress

http://nu.org.za/connecting-the-economy/

Price of a Bad Review

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/08/academic-press-sues-librarian-raising-issues-academic-freedom

Librarians Rally Behind Blogger Sued by Publisher Over Critical Comments

http://chronicle.com/article/Librarians-Rally-Behind/137329/

Librarian sued by publisher for saying mean things

http://lj.libraryjournal.com/blogs/annoyedlibrarian/2013/02/11/librarian-sued-by-publisher-for-saying-mean-things/

  

Open Educational Resources

Rand OERs

http://www.rand.org/publications/academics.html

CK12 Resources

http://www.ck12.org/student/

Clearbits – Open Licensed Digital Media

http://www.clearbits.net/

Applied Maths and Science Education OERs (AMSER)

https://amser.org/

Free University Lectures

http://www.onlinecourses.com/

ZaidLearn Blog –Free University resources

http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/06/

Top 10 Sites Like Lecturefox

http://www.moreofit.com/similar-to/lecturefox.com/Top_10_Sites_Like_Lecturefox/

Itunes.Berkeley

http://itunes.berkeley.edu/

Open Yale Courses

http://oyc.yale.edu/

Temoa

http://www.temoa.info

Merlot OERs

http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

Johns Hopkins Open Courseware

http://ocw.jhsph.edu/

Carnegie Mellon University Open Courseware Initiative

http://oli.cmu.edu/

Tufts Open Courseware

http://ocw.tufts.edu/

University of Notre Dame Open Courseware

http://ocw.nd.edu/

Utah State Open Courseware

http://ocw.usu.edu/

University of Boston, Mass – Open Coursware

http://ocw.umb.edu/

TU Delft OpenCourseWare

http://ocw.tudelft.nl/

Other OpenCourseware resources

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/aecontent.php?pid=257066&sid=3540799

The Top 10 Internet Sources College Students Use for Writing May Depress You

http://www.educationdive.com/news/the-top-10-internet-sources-college-students-use-for-writing-may-depress-yo/88176/

 

Conference alerts:

CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI8)

19-21 June 2013, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

https://indico.cern.ch/event/oai8

 

Indigenous Research Conference

1-3 July 2013 0 Waikato University, New Zealand

http://www.waikato.ac.nz/rangahau/hemanawawhenua