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

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/10/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

http://www.ibtimes.com/tpp-pits-big-tech-against-internet-freedom-groups-wikileaks-reveals-strict-ip-2135237

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

http://www.authorsalliance.org/2015/10/09/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

http://www.cnet.com/news/users-have-the-right-to-be-forgotten-online-in-some-cases-google-search-chief-says/

 

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

http://www.elsevier.com/connect/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

http://www.pasteur4oa.eu/sites/pasteur4oa/files/resource/Brief_from_policy_development_to_effectiveness_and_alignment%20UK.pdf

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

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3259985/Is-writing-wall-ebooks-Sales-traditional-books-readers-prefer-old-fashioned-format.html

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

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/business/media/the-plot-twist-e-book-sales-slip-and-print-is-far-from-dead.html?_r=0

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

http://library.ust.hk/al4/