Intellectual Property:

Opinion of the CEIPI on the European Commission’s Proposal to Reform Copyright Limitations and Exceptions in the European Union

file:///C:/Users/00658018.DS/Downloads/SSRN-id3053983.pdf

The top three emerging tech trends in 2017

https://blogs.thomsonreuters.com/answerson/the-top-three-emerging-tech-trends-in-2017/

Academics and Copyright Ownership: Ignorant, Confused or Misled?

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/10/31/guest-post-academics-copyright-ownership-ignorant-confused-misled/?informz=1

Sci-Hub and LibGen: what if… why not?

http://library.ifla.org/1892/1/S12-2017-houle-en.pdf

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Open access and development: Research findings

http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/open-access-and-development-research-findings

IFLA Statement on Digital Literacy

https://www.ifla.org/files/assets/faife/statements/ifla_digital_literacy_statement.pdf

Libraries Essential to Creating Informed, Independent, Information Literate Citizens

https://www.ifla.org/node/12651

Understanding the costs of scholarly publishing – Why we need a public data infrastructure of publishing costs

https://blog.okfn.org/2017/10/24/understanding-the-costs-of-scholarly-publishing-why-we-need-a-public-data-infrastructure-of-publishing-costs/

Investing in Open Access: Identifying, Evaluating, and Supporting Open Access Resources

http://library.ifla.org/1867/1/S12-2017-mathuews-en.pdf

Should Diamond OA be viewed as a threat to librarians?

http://library.ifla.org/1886/1/S12-2017-wojciechowska-en.pdf

What Librarians Can Do to Promote Open Access

http://bit.ly/1AT9ixo

Re-envisioning a future in scholarly communication

http://library.ifla.org/1631/1/232-hartgerink-en.pdf

Towards Open Science: China’s Scientific Research and Libraries

http://library.ifla.org/1608/1/232-huang-en.pdf

Open Cultural Data Hackathon Coding Da Vinci – Bring the Digital Commons to Life

http://library.ifla.org/1785/1/231-theise-en.pdf

The Darakht-e Danesh Library: Taking Action for Afghan Educators through an Open Access Repository

http://library.ifla.org/1885/1/S12-2017-miller-en.pdf

What it takes to make Open the Default

https://www.ifla.org/files/assets/clm/conferences/vanessa_proudman_whatittakestomakeopenthedefault.pdf

A landscape study on open access and monographs- Policies, funding and publishing in eight European countries

http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/6693/1/Landscape_study_on_OA_and_Monographs_Oct_2017_KE.pdf

Altruism as the founding pillar for open monograph publishing in the Global South

http://library.ifla.org/1703/1/232-raju-en.pdf

 

Open Educational Resources:

Open Educational Resources within a Knowledge System for Achieving Quality Education SDG

http://library.ifla.org/1674/1/220-nyahodza-en.pdf

Search Engines for OERs

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Open_Educational_Resources/SearchEngines