Intellectual Property:

EU Parliament Passes Directive On Collective Rights Management, Pan-EU Licences

http://www.ip-watch.org/2014/02/04/eu-parliament-passes-directive-on-collective-rights-management-pan-eu-licences/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts

Last sale? Libraries’ rights in the digital age

http://crln.acrl.org/content/75/2/69.full

Content Mining – Why You and I Should Not Sign Up for Elsevier’s TDM Service

http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2014/01/31/content-mining-why-you-and-i-should-not-sign-up-for-elseviers-tdm-service/

 

Plagiarism:

Plagiarism, Citation and Referencing Styles - Resources

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/plagiarism_citation_and_referencing

Improving Writing to avoid Plagiarism – resources

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/content.php?pid=284380&sid=2342806  (see sub-tabs as well)

The Big Mistake We All Make About Ideas

http://blog.ted.com/2014/02/03/the-big-mistake-we-all-make-about-ideas/

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Guest Post: Charles Oppenheim on Who Owns the Rights to Scholarly Articles

http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/guest-post-charles-oppenheim-on-who.html

Free Educational Resources

https://saylor.longsight.com/

Journalseek.net – search engine for free scholarly journals

http://journalseek.net/

Publishing corruption discussion: Predatory journalism

http://www.jvascsurg.org/article/S0741-5214(13)02227-1/fulltext

Hot Topics in Open Access: Peer Review and the Tyranny That Must be Broken

http://forskarbloggen.sub.su.se/2014/02/03/hot-topics-in-open-access-peer-review-and-the-tyranny-that-must-be-broken/

Carrots, Sticks and Open Access Publishing in Norway.

https://plus.google.com/+PeterSuber/posts/j6txz3r1Uir#+PeterSuber/posts/j6txz3r1Uir

First SCOAP3 articles available. Open Access.

http://scoap3.org/news/103.html

http://scoap3.org/first-articles

The Ultimate Wordfind Puzzle

https://student.societyforscience.org/article/ultimate-wordfind-puzzle

Mobile Technologies and M-Learning Resources

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Mobile_Technologies

 

Data Management:

Safe to be Open: Study on the Protection of Research Data and Recommendations for Access and Usage (OPENAIRE) 2013

http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/univerlag/2013/legalstudy.pdf

How Genetic Data Sharing Will Revolutionize Healthcare

http://footnote1.com/how-genetic-data-sharing-will-revolutionize-healthcare/

 

Conference alerts/Call for Papers:

Call for papers for LIS Education in Developing Countries Special Interest Group

2014 World Library and Information Congress - "Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for Knowledge"

16-22 August 2014, Lyon, France

Abstract should be submitted by February 15, 2014 to: Dr. Felipe Martinez-Arellano (felipe@unam.mx)

Convener, LIS Education in Developing Countries Special Interest Group (SIG)