Intellectual Property:

Ebola Vaccine Delay May Be Due To An Intellectual Property Dispute

http://io9.com/ebola-vaccine-delay-may-be-due-to-an-intellectual-prope-1642035584

Apply for a licence to use an orphan work (UK)

https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-a-licence-to-use-an-orphan-work

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Open Access: free ‘from having to sell’

http://blogs.sas.ac.uk/2014/10/29/open-access-free-from-having-to-sell/

To publish Open Access or not …

http://popenvmiddleeast.wordpress.com/2014/10/28/to-publish-open-access-or-not/

Spending on Subscriptions to Journals Rises By Up To 50% - Recommendations for the Role of Publishers in Access to Data

http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001975

Open Science to Make Science More Open

http://openscience.com/open-science-journals-to-make-science-more-open/

Open Access in Ireland: A Case Study

http://blog.okfn.org/2014/10/29/open-access-in-ireland-a-case-study/

 

Conference Alerts:

International Indigenous Development Research Conference : Transformation through Indigenous Research Excellence - 

25-28 November 2014 - The University of Auckland, New Zealand

http://www.indigenousdevelopment2014.ac.nz/

 

UCT Library and Information Studies Centre : 75 years Commemoration Conference LIS Education and Research in a Dynamic Information Landscape

27-28 November 2014 – Cape Town, South Africa

http://www.lisc75.co.za/

 

Web25: The Road Ahead. Exploring the Future of Scholarly Communication & Academic Publishing

20-21 January 2015 (pre-conference on 19 January 2015) – Berlin, Germany

http://www.ape2015.eu/html/full_programm_2.html