Intellectual Property:

Copyright Policymaking and the Digital Public Domain – a bitter-sweet wishful thinking from France

http://www.communia-association.org/2013/05/16/copyright-policymaking-and-the-digital-public-domain-a-bitter-sweet-wishful-thinking-from-france/

Negotiators Set to Finalize New Treaty Improving Access to Books for Visually Impaired Persons

http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2013/article_0012.html

Taiwan backs off plan to block sites violating copyright laws

http://focustaiwan.tw/news/asoc/201306030037.aspx

Technical review of draft legislation on copyright exceptions (UK)

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/hargreaves/hargreaves-copyright/hargreaves-copyright-techreview.htm

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Once more: There's seldom a trade-off between prestige and open access

https://plus.google.com/109377556796183035206/posts/Bq34RGD7ao5#109377556796183035206/posts/Bq34RGD7ao5

Types of Open Access publishers in Scopus

http://www.openaccesspublishing.org/2013/05/06/types-of-open-access-publishers-in-scopus/

In the Digital Age, What Becomes of the Library?

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/05/in-the-digital-age-what-becomes-of-the-library/

Background to the Letter from Publicly funded Research Sector, Researchers, Open Access Publishers and EU Technology Companies

http://www.libereurope.eu/sites/default/files/L4ETDM_Background_0.pdf

Academic Earth

http://academicearth.org/

Data Reproducibility

http://blog.shazino.com/articles/science/data-reproducibility

 

Open Educational Resources:

University of Fort Hare’s B Prim Ed distance teacher education online modules

http://www.oerafrica.org/teachered/UFHBPrimEddistanceteachereducationmodules/tabid/2019/Default.aspx

Trend Report : Open Educational Resources 2013

http://www.surf.nl/en/publicaties/Pages/TrendReportOER2013.aspx

New approaches to describing and discovery open educational resources

http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/2013/767

 

Conference Alerts:

3rd Symposium on Open Access Repositories (1st Call for Papers) –

Part of the IC-ININFO 2013 – 3rd International Conference on Integrated Information,

5-9 September 2013, Prague, Czech Republic

http://icininfo.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=81&Itemid=123

Emerging 2013, The Fifth International Conference on Emerging Network Intelligence

29 September – 3 October 2013 – Porto, Portugal

http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/EMERGING13.html

ICEM 2013 : International Council for Educational Media Conference 2013

1-4 October 2013, Singapore

http://icern2013.elite.sg/

9th International Digital Curation Conference –

"Commodity, catalyst or change-agent? Data-driven transformations in research, education, business & society "

24 - 27 February 2014 - San Francisco, USA

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc14