Intellectual Property:

Using Online Content – Do you Need Permission?

http://www.copyrightlaws.com/canadian/using-online-content-do-you-need-permission/

What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2014? (USA)

http://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2014/pre-1976

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Open Science - New Perspective for Scholarly Communication

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/06/20/open-science-new-perspectives-for-scholarly-communication/

Open Access Button and r/Scholar

http://thesebonesofmine.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/open-access-button-rscholar/

PLOS supports public awareness goal of Copyright Week

http://www.plos.org/plos-supports-public-awareness-goal-of-copyright-week/

Have digital repositories come of age?

http://ciber-research.eu/download/20140113-Have_digital_repositories_come_of_age-Webology_vol10_Nr2_Dec2013.pdf

Thousands of years of visual culture made free through Wellcome Images

http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2014/01/thousands-of-years-of-visual-culture-made-free-through-wellcome-images/

Understanding your rights: repositories, websites, and “self-archiving”

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/information-culture/2014/01/17/understanding-your-rights-repositories-websites-and-self-archiving/

Open and Closed

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1360491.ece

A New Funding Model for Scientists

http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2014_01_13/caredit.a1400012

 

Free Open Access /Open Educational Resources:

Open Educational Resources by topic

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/content.php?pid=257066&sid=3887795

Wellcome Images

http://wellcomeimages.org/

Best Free Reference Web Sites 2013 15th Annual List RUSA Emerging Technologies in Reference Section (MARS)

http://www.ala.org/rusa/sections/mars/marspubs/marsbestfreewebsites/marsbestref2013

Media History Digital Library

http://mediahistoryproject.org/

Old Maps Online

http://www.oldmapsonline.org

Classic Buildings

http://sah-archipedia.org/

Human Body Maps

http://www.healthline.com/human-body-maps

Public Domain Audiobooks (free)

https://librivox.org/

Free k-12 educational resources

http://www.openculture.com/free_k-12_educational_resources

625 Free Movies Online

http://www.openculture.com/freemoviesonline

Download over 250 free art books from the Getty Museum

http://www.openculture.com/2014/01/download-over-250-free-art-books-from-the-getty-museum.html

Open Educational Resources by topic

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/content.php?pid=257066&sid=3887795