Intellectual Property:
European Commission Urged To Fix EU Law Before Addressing IPR Protections In Third Countries
Report of the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Farida Shaheed - Copyright policy and the right to science and culture (check No. A/HRC/28/57)
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/RegularSessions/Session28/Pages/ListReports.aspx
Major copyright law reform on the EU Agenda
http://www.alcs.co.uk/ALCS-News/2015/January-2015/ALCS-News-Bulletin-January-2015/EU-copyright-rules-maladapted-to-the-Internet,-upc : Report: https://pub.juliareda.eu/copyright_evaluation_report.pdf
Copyright Notice: Knitting and Sewing Patterns (UK)
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:
Beyond Beall’s List – Better Understanding Predatory Publishers
http://m.crln.acrl.org/content/76/3/132.full.pdf
Science Publishing – Sharing Articles via Academic Networks
http://synapse.ucsf.edu/articles/2015/03/05/science-publishing-sharing-articles-academic-networks
Elsevier Appears To Be Slurping Up Open Access Research, And Charging People To Access It
Directory of Open Access Journals Introduces New Standards to Help Community Address Quality Concerns
http://sparc.arl.org/blog/doaj-introduces-new-standards
Directory of Open Access Journals
New! African Legal Centre
http://africanlegalcentre.org/
Conference Alerts:
Fordham Intellectual Property Law and Policy Conference
8-9 April 2015 0 Cambridge, UK
http://fordhamipconference.com/
COAR-SPARC Conference 2015 – Connecting research results, bridging communities, opening scholarship
15-16 April 2015 – University of Porto, Portugal
https://indico.cern.ch/event/369875/
ABC Copyright Conference 2015
4-5 May 2015 – Winnipeg, Canada
http://conferences.uvic.ca/index.php/abccopyright/index/pages/view/abccopyright2015