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/

http://opentrials.net/

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

http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2015/06/opinion/peer-to-peer-review/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

 http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/stellent/groups/corporatesite/@policy_communications/documents/web_document/wtp059003.pdf

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

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277575473_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