Intellectual Property:
Have Europeans Become Less Exhausted After Recent Copyright Decision?
Publishers’ copyright policies and institutional repositories:
521 Publishers allow the final published/branded PDF version to be deposited in an institutional repository
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/PDFandIR.php?la=en
Publishers who allow the postprint (ie final draft post-refereeing manuscript version) (Blue)
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/browse.php?colour=blue&la=en&fIDnum=|,&mode=simple&version=
Publishers who allow the pre-print and postprint versions (Green)-
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/browse.php?colour=green&la=en&fIDnum=|,&mode=simple&version=
Publishers who only allow the pre-print versions (Yellow) -
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/browse.php?colour=yellow&la=en&fIDnum=|,&mode=simple&version=
Publishers who do not support deposits in an institutional repository (White)
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/browse.php?colour=white&la=en&fIDnum=|,&mode=simple&version=
SHERPA RoMEO Statistics for the 1573 publishers in the RoMEO database:
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/statistics.php
e-Books and e-Lending:
IFLA launches the 2014 eLending Background Paper
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:
Benefits of Open Access
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Benefits_of_OpenAccess
Internal Report: Results of U of S Faculty Survey on Scholarly Communications Behaviours & Needs
Google can't compete with a skilled librarian steeped in information technology
Pretoria Schools get Free Wi-Fi
http://www.techcentral.co.za/pretoria-schools-get-free-wi-fi/49956/
OpenAfrica – Call to Consolidate African Open Network
http://openuct.uct.ac.za/blog/openafrica-call-consolidate-african-open-network