Intellectual Property:
Update on South African Copyright Reform: Fair Use Provision May Be Removed: http://infojustice.org/archives/39877
Cautionary Tales About Collective Rights Organizations: http://infojustice.org/archives/39886
SAMRO to meet with government following ‘copyright fraud’ claims: http://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/2018/04/04/samro-to-meet-with-government-following-copyright-fraud-claims/
Samro challenged to resolve royalty issues: http://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/samro-challenged-resolve-royalty-issues/
Special 301: U.S. Gov’t “Watch List” Threatens Access to Meds: http://infojustice.org/archives/39893
Statement from EU Academics on Proposed Press Publishers’ Right: http://infojustice.org/archives/39875
Access and Persons with Disabilities:
How Technology Is Changing The Way Blind People Get Visual Information [Hear and Now]: http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/04/26/blind-people-apps-technology
EIFL signs three year agreement with bookshare: http://www.eifl.net/news/eifl-signs-three-year-agreement-bookshare
Data Management:
Who should hold the keys to our data?: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/29/in-charge-our-own-data-personal-information-facebook-scandal
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:
Understand the Blockchain in Two Minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r43LhSUUGTQ
Guest Post: Research Deluge — Are Researchers Writing More yet Contributing Less?: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/05/01/guest-post-research-deluge-researchers-writing-yet-contributing-less/?informz=1
Working to preserve knowledge: https://www.researchinformation.info/interview/working-preserve-knowledge
Open Access and the Archived Web - An Open Insights interview with Jane Winters: https://www.openlibhums.org/news/282/
AI Researchers Boycott Nature Machine Intelligence Journal Read more from Asian Scientist Magazine: https://www.asianscientist.com/2018/04/academia/ai-researchers-boycott-nature-machine-intelligence-journal/
Patenting Artificial Intelligence Might Hamper Progress, EFF Says: https://www.ip-watch.org/2018/02/22/patenting-artificial-intelligence-might-hamper-progress-eff-says/
The potential for altmetrics to measure other types of impact in scientific production: academic and social impact dynamics in social media and networks: http://www.informationr.net/ir/23-1/paper780.html
Public library Websites as electronic branches: a multi-country quantitative evaluation: http://www.informationr.net/ir/23-1/paper786.html
Which academic papers do researchers tend to feature on ResearchGate?: http://www.informationr.net/ir/23-1/paper785.html
University Rankings Under the Spotlight: http://www.assaf.org.za/files/Presidential%20Roundtable/Website-%20Unversity%20Rankings%20Under%20the%20Spotlight.pdf
Open access is the future – Springer Nature survey: https://www.researchinformation.info/news/open-access-future-%E2%80%93-springer-nature-survey
The holy grail of Open Access: sharing that benefits authors: https://medium.com/flockademic/the-holy-grail-in-open-access-sharing-that-benefits-authors-b685ff2c6300