Intellectual Property:

Open letter from Civil Society groups to Minister Rob Davies and the Newly Appointed Cabinet on the Urgent Need to Finalise and Adopt South Africa’s National IP Policy.

http://www.tac.org.za/sites/default/files/Letter%20to%20Min.%20Davies%20%26%20Cabinet%20-%20June%202014%20FINAL.pdf

New draft regulations for private copying published (UK)

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111116036/pdfs/ukdsi_9780111116036_en.pdf?page=2

New draft regulations on parody and quotation published (UK)

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111116029/pdfs/ukdsi_9780111116029_en.pdf?page=2

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Seeking Impact and Visibility: Scholarly communication in Southern Africa

http://openuct.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/media/SCAP_Synthesis_Report_WEB.pdf

The Right to eRead

http://www.eblida.org/News/2014/EBLIDA_E-read_position-paper.pdf

What is Grey Literature?

http://www.greylit.org/about

The PDF’s Place in a History of Paper Knowledge: An Interview with Lisa Gitelman

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/06/the-pdfs-place-in-a-history-of-paper-knowledge-an-interview-with-lisa-gitelman/

12th SAOIM 2014 presentations

http://saoug.org.za/saoim2014-workshops-and-conference-presentations/

UCT’s open access policy: a culmination and a beginning

http://lauraczerniewicz.co.za/2014/06/ucts-open-access-policy-culmination-beginning/

What's open source got to do with Earth science? NASA explains

http://opensource.com/life/14/6/NASA-Earth-science-open-source

The dark side of Open Access in Google and Google Scholar: the case of Latin-American repositories

http://arxiv-web3.library.cornell.edu/abs/1406.4331

Addressing Faculty Publishing Concerns with Open Access Journal Quality Indicators

http://jlsc-pub.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1133&context=jlsc

Preserving the Public Domain: Communia Policy Paper on Digitization Agreements

http://www.infodocket.com/2014/06/16/preserving-the-public-domain-communia-policy-paper-on-digitization-agreements/

Open Access Workflows for Academic Librarians

https://library3.hud.ac.uk/blogs/oawal/

 

Data Management:

Mythbusting – Data in your Repository

http://blog.digitalcommons.bepress.com/2014/06/17/mythbusting-data-in-your-repository/

The Open Data Era in Health and Social Care

http://images.thegovlab.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/nhs-full-report.pdf