Intellectual Property:

Bring fairness to music licensing (U.S)

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/282896-bring-fairness-to-music-licensing

FAIR ACCESS: Strikes the right balance on education and copyright

http://www.academicmatters.ca/2016/01/2279/

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Be Open to Open Science

http://www.eblida.org/news/be-open-to-open-science.html

Dissecting the EU’s Open Access resolution

http://blogs.wayne.edu/scholarscoop/2016/06/06/dissecting-the-eus-open-access-resolution/

Research Preprint: “Scholarly Communication and the Dilemma of Collective Action: Why Academic Journals Cost Too Much”

http://www.infodocket.com/2016/06/09/research-preprint-scholarly-communication-and-the-dilemma-of-collective-action-why-academic-journals-cost-too-much/

The Open Science Landscape is Shifting

http://aims.fao.org/activity/blog/open-science-landscape-shifting

What to Consider When Submitting Your Paper to an Open Peer-Review Journal

https://www.ediqo.com/blog/what-to-consider-when-submitting-your-paper-to-an-open-peer-review-journal/

Open access: All human knowledge is there—so why can’t everybody access it?

http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2016/06/what-is-open-access-free-sharing-of-all-human-knowledge/

Institutional repositories increase visibility and opportunities for researchers

http://stateofinnovation.thomsonreuters.com/institutional-repositories-increase-visibility-and-opportunities-for-researchers

No-fee Open Access Journals for all fields (Eigenfactor Index)

http://www.eigenfactor.org/openaccess/fullfree.php

Eigenfactor Index of Open access Fees

http://www.eigenfactor.org/openaccess/oa.php

Choosing Principles Over Publication

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/06/07/researcher-clashes-publisher-over-book-chapter-open-education-resources

About LOCKSS

https://www.lockss.org/about/

Why Researchers should register for ORCID

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Scholarly_Research_Resources/ORCID

 

Open Educational Resources (OERS)

COC to Offer Open Educational Resource Degree Pathway by Fall 2017

http://scvnews.com/2016/06/09/coc-to-offer-open-educational-resource-degree-pathway-by-fall-2017/

 

Workshop alert:

ORCID / NRF Workshop (South Africa)

Venue: National Research Foundation, 1 Meiring Naude Rd, Pretoria

19 July 2016 from 8:30am to 5:30pm

To register, see:  https://orcid.org/content/2016-orcid-south-africa-workshop