Intellectual Property:

RSA IP Compliance Collaboration World First

http://afro-ip.blogspot.co.za/2015/04/rsa-ip-compliance-collaboration-world.html

How a Dancing Baby Struck a Blow for Balanced Copyright Law

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/09/how-a-dancing-baby-struck-a-blow-for-balanced-copyright-law-2/

Did WIPO Get Cool? UN IPR Agency Joins Creative Commons Initiative

http://www.ip-watch.org/2015/09/17/did-wipo-get-cool-un-ipr-agency-joins-creative-commons-initiative/

 

Plagiarism and Academic Misconduct:

High profile researcher admits to fabricating scientific results

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-17/high-profile-researcher-admits-to-fabricating-scientific-results/6781958

Plagiarism Resources

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

Student plagiarism: do we care?

http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20150609151735677#.VX2E1j_sm0o.email

Site Security IS Content Security

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2015/09/24/site-security-is-content-protection/

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

The Global Gold Open Access “Flip”: A Realistic Plan or Magical Thinking?

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/09/24/the-global-gold-open-access-flip-a-realistic-plan-or-magical-thinking/

So many symptoms, only one disease: a public good in private hands

http://bjoern.brembs.net/2015/09/many-symptoms-one-disease/

Briefing Paper: Why is Open Access Necessary? PASTEUR4OA

http://www.pasteur4oa.eu/sites/pasteur4oa/files/resource/Open%20Access%20-%20basic%20briefing%20.pdf

Open Library of Humanities

https://www.openlibhums.org/

Open access offers alternatives to traditional research journals

https://www.dailytexanonline.com/2015/09/28/open-access-offers-alternatives-to-traditional-research-journals

Guide to Open Access Monograph Publishing

https://unglue.it/work/151420/

Open Science Revolut8oin: New Ways of Publishing Research in the Digital Age

https://scicasts.com/insights/10073-open-science-revolution-new-ways-of-publishing-research-in-the-digital-age/

NASA’s Data Portal

https://data.nasa.gov/

Open Access: Posting and Reuse. [What is Predatory?]

http://spirs.lib.montana.edu/blog/research-questions/open-access-creative-commons/

UCL – Gold Statistics

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/open-access/statistics

Elsevier’s Embargo Periods, 2013-2015

http://figshare.com/articles/Elsevier_embargo_periods_2013_2015/1554748

Six Easy Ways to Tell if that Viral Story is a Hoax

https://theconversation.com/six-easy-ways-to-tell-if-that-viral-story-is-a-hoax-47673

Columbia U. Launches a Free Multimedia Glossary for Studying Cinema & Filmmaking

http://www.openculture.com/2015/09/columbia-u-launches-a-free-multimedia-glossary-for-studying-cinema-filmmaking.html

Examples of Author’s Addenda when publishing

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

 

Libraries:

Author Explains Why Libraries Matter Even in the Internet Age

http://national.deseretnews.com/article/6116/author-explains-why-libraries-matter-even-in-the-internet-age.html

Keep the Library, Lose the Books

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/09/keep-the-library-lose-the-books/405307/

 

Open Educational Resources and MOOCs

OpenCourseWare

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Open_Educational_Resources/Open_Courseware

Resources on MOOCs

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Open_Educational_Resources/MOOCs

Who’s Benefiting from MOOCs and Why?

https://hbr.org/2015/09/whos-benefiting-from-moocs-and-why