Intellectual Property:

Brief Amici Curiae of 133 Academic Authors in Support of HathiTrust Digital Library

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2274402

CHORUS – Yet Another Trojan Horse from the Publishing Industry

http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/1009-CHORUS-Yet-Another-Trojan-Horse-from-the-Publishing-Industry.html

Let artists, innovators and the public define our copyright system (USA)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/21/hollywood-should-not-decide-our-copyright-laws/

How does Copyright work in space?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/05/economist-explains-12

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Open access journals and publishing options in health sciences

http://www.oerafrica.org/healthoer/Home/FindOER/ResourceResults/tabid/1864/mctl/Details/id/39327/Default.aspx

Green Open Access Can Work for  the Humanities

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/comment/opinion/green-open-access-can-work-for-the-humanities/2004323.article?utm_term=%23oa&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Bill Gates Takes Part In US$35m investment in open science network ResearchGate

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/item/32925-bill-gates-takes-part-in/?utm_term=%23oa&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Here’s How Bill Gates’ ResearchGate Investment Might Change the World for the Better

http://gigaom.com/2013/06/05/heres-how-bill-gatess-researchgate-investment-might-change-the-world-for-the-better/

Flooved OA Resources

http://flooved.com/professors

Geneticists Push for Global Data Sharing

http://www.nature.com/news/geneticists-push-for-global-data-sharing-1.13133

Oxford Researchers’ Perspectives on Open Access

http://openaccess.ox.ac.uk/oxford-researchers-perspectives-on-open-access/

http://openaccess.ox.ac.uk/wp-uploads/2013/06/Social-Science-OA-session-CFAKHW1305228-2.pdf

World’s Research Funders Launch Open Access Action Plan

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/05/worlds-research-funders-launch-open-access-action-plan.html

American Libraries Digital Content

http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/7d9e3366

 

Open Educational Resources:

African Health OER Network Newsletter

http://www.oerafrica.org/healthoer/Home/tabid/1858/Default.aspx

Publishers Challenge Quality Of Open Educational Resources

http://www.ip-watch.org/2013/05/28/publishers-challenge-quality-of-open-educational-resources/