Intellectual Property:

Copyright Decision Would Squelch Any Right to Read Paywalled Content in Canada

http://www.teresascassa.ca/index.php?id=197%3Acopyright-decision-would-squelch-any-right-to-read-paywalled-content-in-canada&option=com_k2&view=item

Liability Hammer Comes Down on Google, But Hits Users

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/liability-hammer-comes-down-google-hits-users

 

Open Educational Resources:

A Critical Take on OER Practices: Interrogating Commercialization, Colonialism, and Content

http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2015/a-critical-take-on-oer-practices-interrogating-commercialization-colonialism-and-content/

 

eBooks and Libraries:

Publishers Initiate Predatory Pricing on e-Books to Destroy the Market

http://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/publishers-initiate-predatory-pricing-on-e-books-to-destroy-the-market

The Case of the Disappearing E-Book: Academic Libraries and Subscription Packages

http://crl.acrl.org/content/76/7/883.full.pdf

Waterstones to stop selling Kindle as book sales surge

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/06/waterstones-stop-selling-kindle-book-sales-surge

Print Survives While eBooks Wane

https://megancashmanbooks.wordpress.com/2015/10/15/print-survives-while-ebooks-wane/

 

Open Data

OpenGov Fellows Liberate 100s of Government Datasets (South Africa)

https://medium.com/code-for-africa/opengov-fellows-liberate-100s-of-government-datasets-ebcfffbdea82#.8ecjanpq5

Open Government Partnership

http://www.opengovpartnership.org/

Open Data Durban

https://www.facebook.com/opendatadurban

Code for Africa

http://www.codeforafrica.org/

Wazimap – Discover the story behind the data

http://wazimap.co.za/

 

Predatory Publishing Practices:

Is Frontiers a Potential Predatory Publisher?

https://forbetterscience.wordpress.com/2015/10/28/is-frontiers-a-potential-predatory-publisher/

African Academics Are Being Caught in the Predatory Journal Trap

http://allafrica.com/stories/201510292249.html

Academic journals are facing a battle to weed out fake peer reviews

http://www.dailydot.com/geek/academic-journals-retraction-peer-review-scam/

Fake journals: ‘Make in India’ gone wrong

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/fake-journals-make-in-india-gone-wrong/article7800231.ece

About predatory publishing practices

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

Academic journals are facing a battle to weed out fake peer reviews

http://www.dailydot.com/geek/academic-journals-retraction-peer-review-scam/

Major publisher retracts 64 scientific papers in fake peer review outbreak

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/18/outbreak-of-fake-peer-reviews-widens-as-major-publisher-retracts-64-scientific-papers/

Fake It Till You Make It: Reputation, Competition, and Yelp Review Fraud

http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/fakeittillyoumakeit.pdf

Professor at the University of Minnesota wonders whether IEEE really sponsor a fake scientific conference.

http://fakeconference.blogspot.co.za/2015/06/a-professor-at-university-of-minnesota.html

 

Grant for IFLA 2016 :

IFLA 2016 National Committee Fellowship Grant Application

http://2016.ifla.org/congress-information/conference-participation-grants/ifla-2016-national-committee-fellowship-grant-application