South Africa:  VAT on Digital Medial

VAT on digital media will contribute to South African Higher Education Libraries losing over 40% of their purchasing power

http://liasa.org.za/node/1281

 

Intellectual Property:

Google Under Fire for Data Mining Students’ Emails

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/03/13/26google.h33.html?cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS2

Discussion on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization at US Copyright Office, March 10-11, 2014

http://keionline.org/node/1978

I ask Julan Huppert and David Willetts to formally investigaste Elsevier’s unacceptable Gold Open Access

http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2014/03/17/i-ask-julian-huppert-and-david-willetts-to-formally-investigate-elseviers-unacceptable-gold-open-access/

 

Open Access, A2k & Scholarly Communication:

Commentary on Developing an Effective Market for Open Access Article Processing Charges

http://exchanges.wiley.com/blog/2014/03/18/a-commentary-on-developing-an-effective-market-for-open-access-article-processing-charges/

Costs and Benefits of Open Access: A Guide for Managers in Southern African Higher Education

http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/images/a/ab/SCAP-costs-and-benefits-of-OA.pdf

Wiki Africa

http://www.wikiafrica.net/why/

Innovating to Help African Students Learn with Legal Affordable Textbooks

http://www.ip-watch.org/2014/03/17/innovating-to-help-african-students-learn-with-legal-affordable-textbooks/

Wiley Introduces Altmetrics to its Open Access Journals

http://exchanges.wiley.com/blog/2014/03/19/wiley-introduces-altmetrics-to-its-open-access-journals/

 

Open Educational Resources:

OERS and MOOCs – Untangling “Open”

http://lauraczerniewicz.co.za/2014/03/oers-moocs-untangling-open/

OER & MOOCs: What’s the fuss? A review of Open Educational Resources & Massive Open Online Courses

http://media.uct.ac.za/engage/ui/watch.html?id=0eddce6d-8574-4fa4-86d4-e7b97786c06d

 

Conference alerts:

Joint OA conference and the COAR Annual Meeting

21- 23, May, 2014 in Athens, Greece, at the Athens Acropolis Museum.

https://www.coar-repositories.org/community/events/annual-meeting-2014/

 

Digital Library Conference

31 March - 3 April 2014 - Ski & Wellness Residence Družba, Jasná

http://www.schk.sk/wordpress/digital-library-english/