Intellectual Property:

Intellectual Property Rights Database for Journals  (Publishers’ policies)

http://openuct.uct.ac.za/blog/intellectual-property-rights-database-journals

The race for Rooibos: a fight brews in France

http://afro-ip.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-race-for-rooibos-fight-brews-in.html

Not just the pirates: Brazilian rights holders indicted for ripping off artists

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/05/copyright-cops-behaving-badly/

The Hole in Our Collective Memory: How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/the-hole-in-our-collective-memory-how-copyright-made-mid-century-books-vanish/278209/

 

Traditional Knowledge

WIPO Latest News

http://www.wipo.int/tk/en/

 

Plagiarism

Plagiarism Detection in Open Access Publications

http://oaps.eu/project/publication/4ipc-2010-brandt.pdf

Plagiarism Resources

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

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Open access research data to boost science sector (SCIELO South Africa)

http://mediaclubsouthafrica.com/tech/3425-open-access-research-data-to-boost-science-sector#ixzz2aVisJVWA

OpenScholar Licences

http://openscholar.harvard.edu/license

Practical guidelines for starting an institutional repository

http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Practical_guidelines_for_starting_an_institutional_repository_(IR)

Guidelines for Digital Newspaper Preservation Readiness

http://publishing.educopia.org/chronicles/

Embargo or Perish

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/26/despite-warnings-young-scholars-could-be-doomed-open-access-dissertations-evidence

Lincoln First Open Access University in New Zealand

http://library.lincoln.ac.nz/About/News/Current-news/Lincoln-first-Open-Access-uni-in-NZ/

Open access and  scholarly publications as OER

http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1531

Open History: vol. 1: AHAgate & Open Access

http://openhistory.uservoice.com/forums/216483-ahagate-collection

Open Access to Research : an Ideal Complicated by Reality

http://www.forbes.com/sites/collegeprose/2013/07/29/open-access-to-research-an-ideal-complicated-by-reality/

ResearchGate wants to be Facebook for Scientists

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/03/15/researchgate-wants-to-be-facebook-for-scientists/

 

Data Management:

Why Cite Data?

http://www.datacite.org/whycitedata

Global Roads Open Access Data Set (gROADS), v1 (1980 – 2010)

http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/groads-global-roads-open-access-v1

 

Consumer Protection:

Updating the UN Guidelines for Consumer Protection for the Digital Age

http://a2knetwork.org/sites/default/files/updating-ungcp.pdf