Intellectual Property:

Libraries Are Champions for Academic Freedom and Balanced Copyright

http://www.arl.org/storage/documents/infographic-academic-freedom-balanced-copyright-full-size-2014.pdf

Frankfurt Book Fair 2014: Paulo Coelho Tells Publishers 'Don't Be Greedy'

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/international/Frankfurt-Book-Fair/article/64324-frankfurt-book-fair-2014-paulo-coelho-tells-publishers-don-t-be-greedy.html

Formal IP System Does Not Fit Africa, LDCs Need Technological Capacity, Speakers Say

http://www.ip-watch.org/2013/03/01/speakers-outline-ideas-for-africa-to-find-appropriate-ip-policies/

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Is E-Reading to Your Toddler Story Time, or Simply Screen Time?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/us/is-e-reading-to-your-toddler-story-time-or-simply-screen-time.html

Rise of the Rest: The Growing Impact of Non-Elite Journals

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.2217v1.pdf

Ebola crisis: online courses help spread awareness and fill the knowledge gap

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/10/ebola-crisis-online-courses-alison-knowledge-gap

Paperity Launched

http://blog.paperity.org/2014/10/08/paperity-launched/

JSTOR Launches Free Online Magazine for Popular Audience

http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/10/digital-resources/jstor-launches-free-online-magazine-for-popular-audience/#_

Altmetrics can signal flows of information for paths in scholarly communication not yet mapped.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/10/07/altmetrics-what-are-they-good-for/

Directory of Open access scholarly resources

http://road.issn.org/

New resource aims to provide quality insight into OA resources

http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=1575

Can the Monograph Survive?

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/10/10/librarians-and-scholars-consider-future-monograph

 

Predatory Publishing:

Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers

http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list-of-predatory-publishers-2014/

Journal ‘fails the test’

http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2014/10/13/journal-fails-the-test

 

Plagiarism

Plagiarism in 21st century – tempting, damning

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2014-10-14-plagiarism-in-21st-century-tempting-damning/#.VDzOR09xmHs

Plagiarism Resources

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/plagiarism_citation_and_referencing

 

Conference Alerts:

5th International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference: scholarship, technology, and community

12-14 August 2015 – Vancouver, Canada.

https://pkp.sfu.ca/5th-international-pkp-scholarly-publishing-conference-scholarship-technology-and-community/

 

IFLA World Library Congress

15 – 21  August 2014 – Cape Town, South Africa

http://www.ifla.org/node/8400