Intellectual Property:
The Final Leaked TPP Text is All That We Feared
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/final-leaked-tpp-text-all-we-feared
Canada Caves on Copyright in TPP: Commits to Longer Term, Urge ISPs to Block Content
TPP Pits Big Tech Against Internet Freedom Groups As Wikileaks Reveals Strict IP, Copyright Protections
NZ government leaks on TPP: copyright terms will go to life plus 70 yearsAuthors Alliance Urges Reconsideration of Extended Collective Licensing
https://boingboing.net/2015/10/06/nz-government-leaks-on-tpp-co.html
Authors’ Alliance urges reconsideration of extended collective licensing
Authors’ Alliance’ Comments
http://www.authorsalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Authors_Alliance_Comment_final1.pdf
Google search chief: Users have right to be forgotten online -- in some cases
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:
Open Access without Tears
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library-babel-fish/open-access-without-tears
Announcing Scholastica – Arxiv Integration
http://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/130777164633/announcing-scholastica-arxiv-integration
Honoring the 2015 Nobel laureates with free access to selections of their research
Briefing Paper on Open Access
http://www.pasteur4oa.eu/sites/pasteur4oa/files/resource/Open%20Access%20-%20basic%20briefing%20.pdf
From policy development to effectiveness and alignment: An analysis of the UK’s Higher Education Open Access policy landscape
OA Resources from PASTEUR4OA
http://www.pasteur4oa.eu/resources
Article Processing Charges
http://www.pasteur4oa.eu/sites/pasteur4oa/files/resource/PASTEUR4OA_Briefing%20Paper_APCs_final.pdf
Open Access Papers ‘More Likely to be Cited on Twitter’
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/open-access-papers-more-likely-be-cited-twitter
eBooks vs Printed Books:
Is Writing on the Wall for eBooks? Sales of Traditional Books up after Reaers Prefer the Old-Fashioned Format
Why paper still cuts it
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/5317377/Why-paper-still-cuts-it.html
http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2015/10/12/Why-paper-still-cuts-it
E-Books Sales Down 10% in First 5 Months of 2015
http://www.adweek.com/galleycat/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2015/09/eReader-Books-200-GalleyCat.jpg
The Plot Twist: E-Book Sales Slip, and Print Is Far From Dead
Book sales hang on as e-books wither
http://fortune.com/2015/09/23/e-books-digital-publishing/
eBook Sales Are Down, But Are We Surprised?
http://www.bookbusinessmag.com/post/ebook-sales-surprised/
Conference Alert:
"Academic Librarian 4 - Sustainable Academic Libraries: Now and Beyond.”
2-3 June 2016, Hong Kong