Intellectual Property:

Developing an Effective Market for Open Access Article Processing Charges

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/About-us/Policy/Spotlight-issues/Open-access/Guides/WTP054773.htm

European Commission Report urges legal reform to help scientists text-mine research papers

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2014/04/european-commission-report-urges-legal-reform-to-help-scientists-text-mine-research-papers.html

UPOV To Examine ARIPO Legislation On Plant Variety Protection

http://www.ip-watch.org/2014/04/08/upov-to-examine-aripo-legislation-on-plant-variety-protection/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Dramatic Growth of Open Access, First Quarter 2014

http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2014/04/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-first.html

Funders punish open-access dodgers

http://www.nature.com/news/funders-punish-open-access-dodgers-1.15007

Publishing : Open Citations

http://www.nature.com/news/publishing-open-citations-1.13937

Open Citations

http://opencitations.net/

Trace the Past with New York Library’s Open Access Maps Project

http://www.cnet.com/news/trace-the-past-with-new-york-public-librarys-open-access-maps-project/

Developing digital scholarship services on a shoestring

http://crln.acrl.org/content/75/4/187.full

Building it together: collaboration in university-based open access book publishing

http://uksg.metapress.com/content/3v3237665n662376/

LIBER response to Elsevier’s Text and Data Mining Policy

http://www.libereurope.eu/news/liber-response-to-elsevier%E2%80%99s-text-and-data-mining-policy

An effective market for apcs?

http://aoasg.org.au/2014/04/11/an-effective-market-for-apcs/

UK open-access movement sways towards low-cost repositories

http://www.nature.com/news/uk-open-access-movement-sways-towards-low-cost-repositories-1.14953

The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice

Martin Weller http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/view/DigitalScholar_9781849666275/book-ba-9781849666275.xml

 

Digital Preservation:

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

http://blog.dshr.org/2014/04/what-could-possibly-go-wrong.html