Intellectual Property:

Of Political Speeches and IP Policy (South Africa, February 2013)

http://carolinebncube.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/of-political-speeches-and-ip-policy-south-africa-february-2013/

 

Traditional Knowledge:

A tale of two bills: protection of traditional knowledge in South Africa

http://carolinebncube.wordpress.com/2013/04/

WIPO Committee Issues Revised Text on Traditional Knowledge Protection

http://www.ip-watch.org/2013/04/24/wipo-committee-issues-revised-text-on-traditional-knowledge-protection/

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Compelling and Necessary Momentum: A Recent Timeline in Open Access

http://www.collaborativelibrarianship.org/index.php/jocl/article/viewFile/239/178

Impactstory.org (Bibliometrics)

http://impactstory.org/

Intersections of Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy

http://acrl.ala.org/intersections/

UKSG – Connecting the Knowledge Community (presentations)

http://figshare.com/blog/UKSG__Connecting_The_Knowledge_Community/80?utm_term=%23oa&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Sustainability of Open Access Services : Phase 3: The Collective Provision of Open Access Resources

http://www.sparc.arl.org/bm~doc/collective-provision-of-oa-services.pdf

 

Open Educational Resources (OERs):

What is a MOOC?

http://www.educause.edu/library/massive-open-online-course-mooc

Clarifying Confusion: Open Content, MOOCs and online learning

http://lauraczerniewicz.co.za/2013/04/clarifying-confusion-open-content-moocs-online-learning/

MOOC Resources

http://iberry.com/cms/mooc

http://www.worldofwebcast.com/post/massive-list-of-mooc-resources-lit-and-literati

 

Conference alerts:

eLearning Africa 2013 Conference

29-31 May 2013, Windhoek, Namibia.

 http://www.elearning-africa.com/programme_table.php

African Library Summit

2-5 July 2013 - University of South Africa

http://www.unisa.ac.za/default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=28174