White Paper (DAC) – South Africa:

Invitation: Consultation workshops to review White Paper on Arts, Culture and Heritage (South Africa)

https://pmg.org.za/call-for-comment/270/

 

Intellectual Property:

Justifications for Copyright Limitations & Exceptions

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2476669

Crucial Role of Libraries  - Book Famine Must be Turned into A Book Banquet

http://infojustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Caroline-Ncube-Op-ed-Marakesh-Treaty.pdf

Years Of Brainwashing The Public Into Thinking Everything Creative Must Be 'Owned' Has Led To This New Mess

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150312/06330930299/years-brainwashing-public-into-thinking-everything-creat

Blurred lines unblurring the issue of copyright infringement...

http://afro-ip.blogspot.com/2015/03/blurred-lines-unblurring-issue-of.html

WIPO Encourages Participation of Women in IP System

http://www.ip-watch.org/2015/03/11/wipo-encourages-participation-of-women-in-intellectual-property-system/

Canada: The Top 5 Trends In Canadian Intellectual Property Law For 2015

http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=380192&email_access=on

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

UNESCO’s Open Access (OA) Curriculum is now online

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/unescos_open_access_oa_curriculum_is_now_online/#.VQf9aE_9mHs

OpenDoar and metadata practices

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march15/moulaison/03moulaison.html

JISC’s plans for OA Services

http://scholarlycommunications.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2015/03/12/jisc-plans-for-oa-services/

Don’t Divide Teaching and Research

http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2015/03/09/dont-divide-teaching-and-research/

 

Libraries & Education:

The Practice of Digital Libraries

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march15/03editorial.print.html

Are Librarians Totally Obsolete?

http://www.collegeonline.org/library/adult-continued-education/librarians-needed.html

 

Conference Alerts:

Managing Records as a Strategic Resource Conference  (Records Management Foundation for Africa (RMFA))

13-16 April 2015, Arusha Tanzania.

http://www.rimfa.org/

 

Call for Papers:

 Information Literacy in the Green Society -  3rd European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL)

19-22 October, 2015, Tallinn, Estonia

http://ecil2015.ilconf.org/