Intellectual Property:

Updated WIPO Study on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives (K. Crews 2014)

http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=290457

A Critical Examination of Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for the Visually Impaired Pertaining to Literary Works in South Africa in the Local and Global Context

http://open.uct.ac.za/bitstream/handle/11427/9625/thesis_law_2014_kouletakis_j.pdf?sequence=1

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

What to do when you receive an invitation to publish your work

https://wits-ac-za.libapps.com/libguides/admin_c.php?g=145385&p=1106093

Bringing the DOAJ to a New Level

http://journals.lub.lu.se/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/11633/10309

The Social, Political and Legal Aspects of Text and Data Mining (TDM)

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november14/brook/11brook.html

New Opportunities, Methods and Tools for Mining Scientific Publications

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november14/11guest_editorial.html

Seeking Impact and Visibility- Scholarly Communication in Southern Africa

http://www.africanminds.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/9781920677510-content2.pdf

Scholarly Communication Resources

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

Few thoughts about DOAJ and its new application process

http://openscience.com/thoughts-doaj-new-application-process/

DOAJ raises inclusion bar and adopts a Seal of Approval difficult for many open access law journals to attain

http://ljeds.wordpress.com/2013/10/23/doaj-inclusion-seal-approval-open-access-law-journals/

Beall’s Litter

http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1500/

 

Digitisation Issues:

5 Tips to Run a Sustainable Digital Preservation Project (CILIP)

http://www.cilip.org.uk/cilip/blog/5-tips-run-sustainable-digital-preservation-project

Digitisation Resources

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

 

Ethics and Plagiarism

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

 

Conference alerts:

PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2015

13-14 August 2015 – Vancouver, BC. Canada

http://pkp.sfu.ca/pkp2015

 

Reinventing university publishing international symposium and THAT camp,

17-19 March 2015 - Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

http://universitypublishingsymposium.wordpress.com/2014/10/13/registration-now-open-2/

 

LIBER 2015

24-26 June 2015 – London, England

http://www.liber2015.org.uk/