Intellectual Property

Switzerland Continues Work On Changes To Online Copyright Rules

http://www.ip-watch.org/2014/08/06/switzerland-continues-work-on-changes-to-online-copyright-rules/?utm_source=IP-Watch+Subscribers&utm_campaign=e1ba5a7901

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

http://beucitizen.eu/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.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/04/28/inflated-subscriptions-unsustainable-harnad/

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

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/04/why-open-access-advocates-arent-thrilled-with-the-does-plan-to-expand-public-access-to-its-research/

Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network

http://ocsdnet.org/

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