I will be on leave from 5 December 2014 until 5 January 2015, so there will not be any newsletters during this period.

 

Intellectual Property:

The Marrakesh Treaty: an EIFL Guide for Libraries 2014

http://www.eifl.net/system/files/201412/eifl-guide-marrakesh_en.pdf

Marrakesh Treaty Resources

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

Copyright & Related Resources

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

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

From outcomes to process: evidence for a new approach to research impact assessment

http://rev.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/09/18/reseval.rvu021.short

Let Elsevier Go: The potential savings from cancelling journal subscriptions would cover the Open Access transition.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/11/26/let-it-go-cancelling-subscriptions-funding-transitions/

Nature Drops Its Paywall... But Replaces It With Insane, Anti-Research Proprietary DRM

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141202/11073029297/nature-drops-its-paywall-replaces-it-with-insane-anti-research-proprietary-drm.shtml

Is Nature’s “free to view” a magnanimous gesture or a cynical ploy?

http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1668

Experience of using an open source clinical trials data management software system in Kenya

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/7/845

Critical Keywords for the Digital Humanities: Open Access

https://openreflections.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/critical-keywords-for-the-digital-humanities-open-access/

Ebola Collection

http://f1000research.com/article-collections/ebola

December 2014 issue of College and Research Libraries News

http://crln.acrl.org/content/current

3 OA Policies updated: Emphasising Gold OA: WHO, CERN & the NRC

3 OA policies updated: emphazising Gold OA: WHO, CERN and the Norwegian Research Council

 

Open Education Data:

Introducing Open Education Data

http://blog.okfn.org/2014/12/02/introducing-open-education-data/

Open Data Resources

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