Intellectual Property:

TRIPS – The Story of How Intellectual Property Became Linked to Trade

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/10/trips-the-story-of-how-intellectual-property-became-linked-to-trade.html

Free Semantic Patent Search & Analysis

https://www.octimine.com/                            

Limitations and Exceptions in EU Copyright Law for Libraries, Educational and Research Establishments: A Basic Guide

http://libereurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/A-Basic-Guide-to-Limitations-and-Exceptions-in-EU-Copyright-Law-for-Libraries-Educational-and-Research-FINAL-ONLINE.pdf

Innovation and the Global Expansion of Intellectual Property Rights: Unfulfilled Promises

http://infojustice.org/archives/36538

Why Did We Have to Wait a Year to Fix Our Cars?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/10/why-did-we-have-wait-year-fix-our-cars

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Could making authors pay to get their work published be the way forward for academic journals?

http://scroll.in/article/819859/could-making-authors-pay-to-get-their-work-published-be-the-way-forward-for-academic-journals

If Science Must Be a Self-Correcting Search for Truth, So Should Its Communication

http://thewire.in/76541/science-journalism-feyerabend-method/]

Publishing in Open Access without paying a fee

http://library.maastrichtuniversity.nl/publishing-open-access-without-paying-fee/

Why You Need to Publish Open Access

https://gleesongleanings.wordpress.com/2016/10/27/why-you-need-to-publish-open-access/

The Case for Open Use Policies : Realizing the Full Value of Publicly Funded Information

https://na-production.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/Open-Use-Policies.pdf

 

Predatory Publishing Practices:

How to avoid predatory publishers

https://library.osu.edu/blogs/digitalscholarship/2015/12/04/predatory-open-access/

Resources on Predatory Publishing Practices

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/openaccess_a2k_scholarly_communication/Predatory_Publishers

 

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