Intellectual Property:

IGF Baku - Workshop 146 outcomes 'Intellectual property rights and the freedom to share'

http://www.ifla.org/news/igf-baku-workshop-146-outcomes-intellectual-property-rights-and-the-freedom-to-share

‘Plaidgerism’ and Concocted Defences

http://the1709blog.blogspot.com/2012/11/plaidgerism-and-concocted-defences.html

 

Open Educational Resources:

Growing the Curriculum: Open Education Resources in Higher Education, 2012 ( free download )

http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/oer.html

Free Online Courses

http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses;

Free Online Certificate Courses

http://www.openculture.com/free_certificate_courses

Udacity.com

http://www.udacity.com/

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Wits University signs the Berlin Declaration on OA in the Sciences & Humanities

http://www.africanlii.org/blogs/denise/university-witwatersrand-johannesburg-wits-signs-berlin-declaration-open-access-science

EBooks and Amazon

http://www.antitrustinstitute.org/~antitrust/sites/default/files/Ebooks%20and%20Amazon.pdf

Institutional Repository Development: A Case Study of KARI and KAINet

http://aims.fao.org/community/blogs/institutional-repository-development-case-study-kari-and-kainet

Do online courses spell the end for the traditional university?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/nov/11/online-free-learning-end-of-university

E-Science, Scholarly Communication and Open Access

http://esciencecommunity.umassmed.edu/2012/11/05/e-science-scholarly-communication-and-open-access/

Open Ed’s Business Woes: Textbook Pioneer Flat World Knowledge To Revoke Free Access To Texts

http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/06/open-eds-business-woes-textbook-pioneer-flat-world-knowledge-to-revoke-free-access-to-texts/

Announcing New Anthropology & Archaeology Research Network

http://www.ssrn.com/update/aarn/aarnann/annA001.html

 

Conference Alert:

34th Annual IATUL Conference

14-18 April 2013 -  Cape Town International Convention Centre, South Africa

http://active.cput.ac.za/iatul2013/public/index.asp?pageid=640