Intellectual Property:

Did Spain Just Declare War on the Commons?

http://www.communia-association.org/2014/08/06/did-spain-just-declare-war-on-the-commons/

Spain’s Internet Law Reforms will Harm Access to Knowledge

https://webwewant.org/news/Spain_s_Internet_law_reforms_will_harm_access_to_knowledge

Authors Alliance Joins Call for STM to withdraw its Open access licenses

http://www.authorsalliance.org/2014/08/11/authors-alliance-joins-call-for-stm-to-withdraw-licenses/

 

Traditional Knowledge:

Gambia Ratifies Protocol to Protect Traditional Knowledge, Folklore

http://allafrica.com/stories/201408141638.html

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Teaching an Old University Press Publisher New Tricks: Living in the Present and Preparing for the Future of Scholarly Communications

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0017.202?view=text;rgn=main

The Future of Open access and Publishing

http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/xmlui/handle/1957/51311

Repositories play their part in institutions

http://www.researchinformation.info/features/feature.php?feature_id=468

What can alternative metrics or altmetrics offer us?

http://blog.scielo.org/en/2014/08/07/what-can-alternative-metrics-or-altmetrics-offer-us/#.U-yiB4BdWwE

 

Conference Alert – 2015:

IFLA World Library and Information Congress – 81st IFLA General Conference and Assembly

15-21 August 2015 – Cape Town, South Africa

http://conference.ifla.org/files/assets/wlic/2015/documents/wlic-2015-brochure.pdf