Intellectual Property
Switzerland Continues Work On Changes To Online Copyright Rules
Australian Government seeks new ways to limit online copyright infringement in new Discussion Paper
http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=333426&email_access=on
EIFL supports call to withdraw new STM sample licences
http://www.eifl.net/news/eifl-supports-call-withdraw-new-stm-sample
Knowledge transfer and intellectual property rights obstacles and barriers to a free access to information by EU citizens
3D printing: Overcoming the legal and intellectual property issues
http://www.zdnet.com/3d-printing-overcoming-the-legal-and-intellectual-property-issues-7000032252/
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication
The only way to make inflated journal subscriptions unsustainable: Mandate Green Open Access.
Open access publishing: a developing country view
http://eldis.org/go/home&id=40924&type=Document#.U-sKQ0_lqHt
4 reasons why Google Scholar isn’t as great as you think it is
http://blog.impactstory.org/googe-scholar-profiles-fail/
Why open access advocates aren’t thrilled with the DOE’s plan to expand public access to its research
Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network
Wikimania 2014: Wikipedia Belongs in Education
http://education.okfn.org/wikimania-2014-wikipedia-belongs-in-education/
Open Data & Big Data
Open Data Management and Resources
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/content.php?pid=227880&sid=3825137
Big Data/Data Science
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/content.php?pid=227880&sid=4804692
Big Data Overview - POST Note
http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/POST-PN-468/big-data-overview
Conference alerts
SWIB14 Semantic Web in Libraries Conference
1 - 3 December 2014 - Bonn, Germany
http://swib.org/swib14/programme.php