PLEASE NOTE THAT I WILL BE ON LEAVE FROM 15 JUNE TO 17 JULY 2015, SO THERE WILL BE NO NEWSLETTERS DURING THIS PERIOD.
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:
Brief: Open, Online Database Of Clinical Trials Planned
http://www.ip-watch.org/2015/04/22/open-online-database-of-clinical-trials-announced/
Open Access .. or Free Access?
https://grumpygeophysicist.wordpress.com/2015/05/31/open-access-or-free-access/
Open Access vs. Closed Access
http://blogs.lt.vt.edu/ytaylor9/2015/04/21/open-access-vs-closed-access/
The Future of Academic Law Librarianship | Peer to Peer Review
DOAJ, Impact Factors and APCS
http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2015/06/01/doaj-impact-factor-and-apcs/
Scholarly Communication and Peer Review The Current Landscape and Future Trends – 2015
The Road to 2020: Envisioning Higher Education & the Library Environment for a Shifting Future
http://blendedlibrarian.learningtimes.net/the-road-to-2020/#.VTn3lU-JiHt
No reservations - Why the time has come to kill print textbook reserves
http://crln.acrl.org/content/76/6/332.full
Orphan Works and Mass Digitization - a report of the register of copyrights june 2015 (US Copyright Office)
http://copyright.gov/orphan/reports/orphan-works2015.pdf
Combating inhibitors of Quality Research Outputs at the University of Cape Town
Is academic freedom a license to provoke without consequences?
http://theconversation.com/is-academic-freedom-a-license-to-provoke-without-consequences-42238
Open Educational Resources:
Introduction to Open: OER, Open Pedagogy, & Open Access
http://www.slideshare.net/orbitdog1/introduction-to-open-oer-open-pedagogy-open-access
edX makes it easy for authors to share under Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/45593
Just How Open? Evaluating the “Openness” of Course Materials in Massive Open Online Courses
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/VALib/v61_n1/pdf/springs.pdf