Intellectual Property:

WIPO Wants Its Pro Bono Patent Lawyer Scheme To Aid Developing Countries’ Inventors

http://www.ip-watch.org/2016/10/18/wipo-wants-pro-bono-patent-lawyer-scheme-aid-developing-countries-inventors/

Intellectual Property Consultative Framework 2016 (South Africa) – Some Submissions

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

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Peter Suber on the State of Open Access

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahADSfuB73E

On the Cost of Knowledge: Evaluating the Boycott against Elsevier

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frma.2016.00007/full

ECS takes down the paywall to free the science during open access week

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-10/tes-etd101716.php

Joining the Scholarly Communication Discussion

http://osc.cam.ac.uk/open-research/joining-scholarly-communication-discussion

Does the ‘Open Access Citation Advantage’ exist?

https://thepublicationplan.com/2016/10/17/does-the-open-access-citation-advantage-exist/

South Africa: Freedom Park Receives Digital Equipment for Its Archived Collections, 18 Oct

http://allafrica.com/stories/201610170588.html

 

Data and Data Management:

Making Open Data more evidence-based: Toward a user-centric and interdisciplinary research agenda to advance open data

http://opendatacon.org/making-open-data-more-evidence-based-toward-a-user-centric-and-interdisciplinary-research-agenda-to-advance-open-data/

Resources on Big Data

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

Big Data on Campus

http://www.cio.com/article/3121250/education/big-data-on-campus.html