Intellectual Property:
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
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
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
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