Intellectual Property:

Panels Present Importance of Fair Use in South Africa's Draft Copyright Amendment

http://bit.ly/2iPLcCx

 

Predatory Publishers:

Sad Ending; Jeffrey Beall’s Blog was shut down

https://sfoap.wordpress.com/2017/01/15/sad-ending-jeffrey-bealls-blog-was-shut-down/

 

Data Management:
MANTRA Research Data Management Training

http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/

DataMed: Finding useful data across multiple biomedical data repositories

http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/12/17/094888.full.pdf

Data Management Resources

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/digitisation_preservation_and_digitalcuration/DataManagementResources

 

Conferences/Workshops:

OpenAIRE Workshop – Impact and Measurement of Open Access

14 February 2017 – Oslo, Norway

https://nettskjema.uio.no/answer/openaire-feb-2017-event.html

 

IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) 2017

19-25 August 2017 – Wroclaw, Poland

http://2017.ifla.org/

 

Call for Chapter Proposals: OER: A Field Guide for Academic Librarians

https://groups.google.com/a/arl.org/forum/#!topic/sparc-liboer/7USi5Zv76r0 - Deadline: 13 February 2017

 

Copyright Courses:

CopyrightX: UCT

 15 February to 26 April 2017-  UCT, Cape Town, South Africa

http://ip-unit.org/2017/copyrightxuct-application-deadline-extended/