Intellectual Property:

Tell Congress it’s Time to Move FASTR

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/tell-congress-its-time-move-fastr

Did Beyonce Steal Copyrighted Content? Or is it Fair Use?

http://artlawjournal.com/beyonce-formation-fair-use/?utm_source=wysija&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=March+10

VTech: We are Not Liable If We Fail to Protect Your Data: EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation): Oh, yes you are!

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/vtech-we-are-not-liable-if-we-fail-protect-your-data-eff-oh-yes-you-are

 

Reactions to "Locked-up" Scholarly Research ny Commercial Publishers

What is Sci-Hub?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub

Sci-Hub is a scholarly litmus test

http://svpow.com/2016/03/04/sci-hub-is-a-scholarly-litmus-test/

Some Radical Thoughts about Sci-Hub

http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2016/03/03/some-radical-thoughts-about-scihub/

Thought-experiment #1: what will happen if Sci-Hub succeeds?

http://svpow.com/2016/03/10/thought-experiment-1-what-will-happen-if-sci-hub-succeeds/

Researcher illegally shares millions of science papers free online to spread knowledge

http://www.sciencealert.com/this-woman-has-illegally-uploaded-millions-of-journal-articles-in-an-attempt-to-open-up-science

Why one woman stole 47 million academic papers — and made them all free to read

http://www.vox.com/2016/2/17/11024334/sci-hub-free-academic-papers

What is Alexandra Elbakyan’s motivation for creating and running Sci-Hub?

http://svpow.com/2016/02/28/what-is-alexandra-elbakyans-motivation-for-creating-and-running-sci-hub/

Thoughts on Sci-Hub

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/02/16/thoughts-on-sci-hub

Free science journal library gains notoriety, lands injunctions

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/12/science_journal_dump_lands_injunctions/

Setting knowledge free: Sci-Hub is The Pirate Bay for research papers

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/sci-hub-research-piracy/

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Prof, no one is reading you

http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/prof-no-one-is-reading-you

Should there be greater use of preprint servers for publishing reports of biomedical science? [version 1; referees: not peer reviewed]

http://f1000researchdata.s3.amazonaws.com/manuscripts/8851/dc8ef413-8601-415a-9ef8-b406a22f839d_8229_-_michaela_torkar.pdf

Accounting for Impact? How the Impact Factor is shaping research and what this means for knowledge production.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/03/07/accounting-for-impact-journal-impact-factor-research-knowledge-production

The Encyclopaedia of Earth

http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/155050/

Open Access resources (SANLIC)

http://www.sanlic.org.za/open-access-resources

Open Access Plays Vital Role in Developing Country Research Communication

http://blog.inasp.info/open-access-plays-vital-role-developing-country-research-communication/

Misleading Metrics

https://scholarlyoa.com/other-pages/misleading-metrics/

New Armenian OA ETD repository

http://www.eifl.net/news/new-armenian-oa-etd-repository

Research Resources: Typography

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

 

Open Educational Resources:

Open Education Group – The Review Project

http://openedgroup.org/review

OERS – A-L

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/c.php?g=145371&p=953525

OERS – M-Z

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/c.php?g=145371&p=953528