Intellectual Property:

Could Ladybird Bring First Parody Challenge?

http://the1709blog.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/could-ladybird-bring-first-parody.html?spref=tw

UK Open Access to 91 million orphan works – UKIPO says

http://www.ip-watch.org/2014/10/29/uk-opens-access-to-91-million-orphan-works-ukipo-says/

Picking The Locks: Redefining Copyright Law In The Digital Age [All Things Considered]

http://www.npr.org/2014/11/03/360196476/picking-the-locks-redefining-copyright-law-in-the-digital-age

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

New Analysis Reveals Startling Truth about Publishing

http://rogerpacker.com/blog/new-analysis-reveals-startling-truth-about-self-publishing/          

Predatory OA Publishers/Not to Be Used in Academia

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/c.php?g=145291&p=1076505

Why is Science Behind a Paywall?

http://gizmodo.com/why-is-science-behind-a-paywall-504647165

#F1000 Talks: The state of Open Access in the Global South

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teM1ZDz01hM

Open Access publishing – Immediate publication

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icl0QT5CaQw

Importance & benefits of Open Science for ubiquitous sharing, dissemination and promotion

https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/content/importance-benefits-open-science-ubiquitous-sharing-dissemination-and-promotion

AB 609: California Leads on Open Access to Publicly Funded Research

http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/11/legislation/ab-609-california-leads-on-open-access-to-publicly-funded-research/

The opposite of open isn’t closed but broken

http://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/cobo/?p=922

How global are you?

http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/oadwblog/2014/11/07/how-global-are-you/

The Feedback Loop between Open Access and Altmetrics

http://blog.plumanalytics.com/post/101696352295/the-feedback-loop-between-open-access-altmetrics

How policy makers can support open access(OA) to publications and open research data

https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/content/how-policy-makers-can-support-open-access-oa-publications-and-open-research-data

Will Printed Books Disappear? Stephen King On The Future Of The Traditional Paper Book

http://bestsellerlabs.com/no-more-books-stephen-king/

The Future of the Future of Books

http://www.buzzfeed.com/lincolnmichel/the-future-is-never

Are e-Textbooks the Publishing World’s Future?

http://www.edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2014/11/are-e-textbooks-publishing-worlds-future

My Change of Heart About Open Access – We Can Do Better

http://researchfrontier.wordpress.com/2014/11/02/my-change-of-heart-about-open-access-journals-we-can-do-better/

San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)

http://am.ascb.org/dora/

The Winnower (open science)

https://thewinnower.com/

Academic citation practices need to be modernized so that all references are digital and lead to full texts.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/05/21/academic-citation-practices-need-to-be-modernized/

 

Open Data and Data Management:

What is Open Data?

http://blog.f1000research.com/2014/10/07/what-is-open-data/

Digitisation, Preservation, Curation and Data Management Resources

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

When Encryption is not the Answer

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/when-encryption-is-not-the-answer/

Open access to data: An ideal professed but not practised

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733314000699