Intellectual Property:

Activists want new intellectual property laws before election (South Africa)

http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/law/2014/03/13/activists-want-new-intellectual-property-laws-before-election

Safeguarding Public Health: South Africa's Challenge to International Intellectual Property Laws

http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/1918?frommailing=1

Inside Views- New Constitutions Of Egypt, Tunisia Provide For IP Rights Protection For First Time

http://www.ip-watch.org/2014/03/10/new-constitutions-of-egypt-tunisia-provide-for-ip-rights-protection-for-first-time/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts

 

Open Access, A2k & Scholarly Communication:

Why Librarians Can’t Ignore Data Anymore

http://kevinthelibrarian.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/why-librarians-cant-ignore-data-anymore/

Open Access, Free Access to Law and Access to Canadian Legal Scholarship (Parts 1 and 2)

http://www.slaw.ca/2013/10/25/open-access-free-access-to-law-and-access-to-canadian-legal-scholarship/

http://www.slaw.ca/2014/02/20/open-access-free-access-to-law-and-access-to-canadian-legal-scholarship-part-2/

UNESCO publishes Guidelines to compare Institutional Repository Software

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/news-and-in-focus-articles/all-news/news/unesco_publishes_guidelines_to_compare_institutional_repository_software#%2EUwTRgfldUUY

Altmetrics could enable scholarship from developing countries to receive due recognition

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/03/10/altmetrics-for-developing-regions/