Intellectual Property:

New South African IP Policy Receives Initial Positive Reactions

http://www.ip-watch.org/2013/09/09/new-south-african-ip-policy-receives-initial-positive-reactions/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts

South Africa Draft Policy on Intellectual Property rejects giving ownership interest in copyrighted works to broadcasters

http://keionline.org/node/1795

DTI’s draft IP policy lays foundation to prevent abusive patenting

http://www.fixthepatentlaws.org/?p=657

Internet Society Issues Paper on Intellectual Property on the Internet

http://www.internetsociety.org/sites/default/files/IPR%20Issues%20Paper_Final_EN.pdf

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

UK Draft secondary legislation to regulate collecting societies – call for comments

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/consult-2013-collecting.htm

Innovating Pedagogy 2 013 : Exploring new forms of teaching, learning and assessment, to guide educators and policy makers

http://www.open.ac.uk/personalpages/mike.sharples/Reports/Innovating_Pedagogy_report_2013.pdf

Government mistaken in focusing on Gold as route to full open access, says Committee (UK)

http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/business-innovation-and-skills/news/on-publ-open-access/

A major new report calls on the UK to improve its "mistaken" OA policy (Sept 2013).

https://plus.google.com/u/0/109377556796183035206/posts/NiWFp9ivA9m#109377556796183035206/posts/NiWFp9ivA9m

UK House of Commons, Business, Innovation and Skills Committee  - Open Access Report (Sept 2013)

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmbis/99/99.pdf

Tectonic movements toward OA in the UK and Europe

http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/9723075

Open Data Policy Guidelines – Sunshine Foundation

http://sunlightfoundation.com/opendataguidelines/

The Swedish Model: Or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Ebook Lending

http://www.theliteraryplatform.com/2013/08/the-swedish-model-or-how-we-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-ebook-lending/

 

Conference Alerts/Call for papers:

Stellenbosch University 13th Annual Library Symposium:

Theme:  X-plore • X-pand • X-ceed: ensuring dynamic academic libraries for the future

14-15 November 2013, Stellenbosch, South Africa

http://conferences.sun.ac.za/index.php/sulis_symp/2013

 

8th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, INTED2014,

10-12 March 2014 – Valencia, Spain

http://www.inted2014.org