Intellectual Property:

Intellectual property: Protecting ideas is costly

http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/law/2016/05/09/protecting-ideas-can-be-a-costly-affair

Media 24, Moneyweb case casts spotlight on online copyright law

http://www.bdlive.co.za/business/media/2015/05/09/media-24-moneyweb-case-casts-spotlight-on-online-copyright-law?cx_tag=bcuf

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Find out what ORCID is and how it makes life so much easier for researchers

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Scholarly_Research_Resources/ORCID

Open-access index delists thousands of journals

http://www.nature.com/news/open-access-index-delists-thousands-of-journals-1.19871

Economic thoughts about “gold” open access

http://madlibbing.berkeley.edu/economic-thoughts-about-gold-open-access/

Open Access – Beauty or the Beast?

https://beccalblog.wordpress.com/2016/05/08/open-access-content-beauty-or-the-beast/

Better connectivity has economic spinoffs for Africa

https://theconversation.com/better-connectivity-has-economic-spinoffs-for-africa-42341

Predictive Analytics for Publishing

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/05/10/start-sees-data-analytics-information-overload-cure-researchers-publishers

Proud to be a Librarian!! Love the L-Sign

http://bhowatg.blogspot.co.za/2016/04/open-source-open-access-hot-library.html

Open Access information

http://www.inasp.info/en/training-resources/open-access-resources/open-access-information/

Joint COAR-UNESCO Statement on Open Access

http://en.unesco.org/news/joint-coar-unesco-statement-open-access

A Commentary on Sci Hub:1: Scholarly Publishing is Broken

https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2016/04/30/a-commentary-on-sci-hub-1-scholarly-publishing-is-broken/

Open Access is the basis for access to our knowledge, not to single PDFs

http://plazi.org/news/beitrag/open-access-is-the-basis-for-access-to-our-knowledge-not-to-single-pdfs/d468db7acca85db07489a999410da3ef/