Net Neutrality:

Get ready: The FCC says it will vote on net neutrality in February

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/01/02/get-ready-the-fcc-says-itll-vote-on-net-neutrality-in-february/

2015 :  The year the battle for Net Neutrality ends

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2862913/net-neutrality/2015-the-year-the-battle-for-net-neutrality-ends.html

3 Big Questions remain as Net Neutrality heads to the end game

https://gigaom.com/2015/01/05/3-big-questions-remain-as-net-neutrality-heads-to-the-end-game/

GOP Hopes to Solve ‘Net Neutrality’ In 2015

http://www.westernjournalism.com/gop-hopes-solve-net-neutrality-2015/#hpMXEJ5SGVMGZ7bM.97

 

eLearning and Open Educational Resources:

The Adoption of Open Educational Resources by One Community College Math Department

https://www.academia.edu/9728499/The_Adoption_of_Open_Educational_Resources_by_One_Community_College_Math_Department

eLearning Africa Report 2041

http://www.elearning-africa.com/media_library_publications_ela_report_2014.php

Rebooting MOOC research

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6217/34.full

OER Resources

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

 

e-Governance:

Uganda adopts free and open source software for e-governance

http://www.ip-watch.org/2014/12/19/uganda-adopts-free-and-open-source-software-for-e-governance/

 

Digitisation and Preservation:

Jay Gattuso - Digital preservation in action - NDF 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K22_i3kgjRg

Mapping the Digital Preservation Wilderness – What we need to know – Best Practices

http://jodyderidder.com/writings/presentations/BPE2014/BPE_keynote_2014_DeRidder.pdf

Methods of Repairing Corrupted or Damaged PDFS

http://raywoodcockslatest.wordpress.com/2014/12/04/pdf-repair/

Digitisation Resources

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

 

Plagiarism:

Study of massive preprint archive hints at the geography of plagiarism

http://news.sciencemag.org/scientific-community/2014/12/study-massive-preprint-archive-hints-geography-plagiarism

Plagiarism Resources

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

 

Conference alerts:

14th International Symposium of Information Science - ISI 2015 - Reinventing Information Science in the Networked Society

19-21 May 2015 – Zadar, Croatia

http://isi2015.de/?lang=en

 

Call for Comments:

Commonwealth of Learning Draft Strategic Plan (2015-2021)

http://www.col.org/progServ/Pages/StrategicPlan.aspx

 

Conference Sponsorship

Conference sponsorship opportunity for young librarians

http://www.rgu.ac.uk/research/conferences/i-2015