Intellectual Property:

Is Fair Use a “Dangerous Exception”?

http://infojustice.org/archives/34202

Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900),

http://www.copyrighthistory.org/cam/index.php

Copyright Resources

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Copyright_and_Related_Issues/Resources

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Don't Think Open Access Is Important? It Might Have Prevented Much Of The Ebola Outbreak

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150409/17514230608/dont-think-open-access-is-important-it-might-have-prevented-much-ebola-outbreak.shtml

WHO demands disclosure of all clinical trial results

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/14/us-pharmaceuticals-who-idUSKBN0N51R820150414

Free Knowledge (can download)

http://uofrpress.ca/assets/File/Free%20Knowledge%20WEB%20PDF.pdf

JournalTOCs - Finding Table of Contents of Journals (including Open Access)

http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/

New open access resource will support text mining and natural language processing

http://www.vox.com/2015/3/14/8203595/pubpeer

PhilPapers - Open Access Philosophy Resources

http://philpapers.org/help/oai.html

What you don’t know about Internet algorithms is hurting you. (And you probably don’t know very much!)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/03/23/what-you-dont-know-about-internet-algorithms-is-hurting-you-and-you-probably-dont-know-very-much/

Right to Culture – Future Scenarios

http://prawokultury.pl/scenarios/media/right-to-culture-future-scenarios.pdf

Journals And Publication Pollution Denialism

http://www.science20.com/news_articles/journals_and_publication_pollution_denialism-154566

 

Open Educational Resources

Dramatically Bringing Down the Cost of Education with OER

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/labor/news/2012/02/07/11167/dramatically-bringing-down-the-cost-of-education-with-oer/

Open Educational Resources in the Humanities and Social Sciences

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/OERS4Humanities

 

Access and Persons with Sensory Disabilities:

NZSL video, making the arts more accessible to Deaf people

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1504/S00209/nzsl-video-making-the-arts-more-accessible-to-deaf-people.htm

Ratifications to Marrakesh Treaty to date

http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ShowResults.jsp?country_id=ALL&start_year=ANY&end_year=ANY&search_what=N&treaty_id=843

Resources for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons

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

Directory of Resources for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services

http://www.cdss.ca.gov/cdssweb/PG1947.htm

 

Awards:

Public Library of the Year Award

http://modelprogrammer.kulturstyrelsen.dk/en/news-events/public-library-of-the-year-award-2015/#.VS9i3U-JiHt