Intellectual Property:

Breakthrough in copyright law reform confirmed (UK)

http://www.cilip.org.uk/cilip/news/breakthrough-copyright-law-reform-confirmed

The UK Copyright and Rights in Performances (Research, Education, Libraries and Archives) Regulations 2014

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1372/contents/made

Intellectual Property Protection By Chinese Courts In 2013

http://www.mondaq.com/x/317554/Trademark/Intellectual+Property+Protection+by+Chinese+Courts+in+2013&email_access=on

 

Traditional Knowledge:

EU Bill Protects Indigenous Traditional Knowledge and Food Security

http://foodtank.com/news/2014/04/eu-bill-protects-indigenous-traditional-knowledge-and-food-security

WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore

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

 

Data Management:

Big Data Resources

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

Data and Text Mining

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

 

Mobile Technologies and Social Networking:

Which social network should I use as a librarian

www.philb.com/articles/whichsocialnetwork.htm

Twitter for librarians: a resource guide

http://www.philb.com/twitterforlibrarians.htm

What is Blippar?        

http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/5627-blippar-app.html

List of Search Engines

http://www.philb.com/webse.htm

 

Open Access, A2K  & Scholarly Communication:

Why Open Access Should be Key Issue for University Leaders

http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2014/feb/18/open-access-key-issue-university-leaders

Interview with Stevan Harnad on OA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dLwRReWxTg

Interview with Steve Pettifer, computer scientist and developer of Utopia Documents

http://poynder.blogspot.com/2014/06/interview-with-steve-pettifer-computer.html

 

Conference Alert:

15th Information Studies (IS) Annual Conference Announcement

University of Zululand, South Africa

3rd -5th September, 2014

Contact: http://www.unizulu.ac.za or MostertB@unizulu.ac.za