Intellectual Property:

The Power of Backroom Lobbying – How the Recording Industry got their Copyright Term Extension

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/04/the-power-of-backroom-lobbying-how-the-recording-industry-got-their-copyright-term-extension/

The Difference between Copyright and Patent Protections on Software

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2015/05/14/the-difference-between-copyright-and-patent-protections-on-software/

Does Facebook Really Own Your Photos?

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2015/05/13/does-facebook-really-own-your-photos/

 

Traditional Knowledge:

The struggle to get indigenous knowledge into policy

http://www.scidev.net/global/indigenous/feature/indigenous-knowledge-policy-ipcc-un.html

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

An Assessment of Institutional Repositories in the Arab World

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may15/carlson/05carlson.html

Altmetrics and analytics for digital special collections and institutional repositories

http://figshare.com/articles/Altmetrics_and_analytics_for_digital_special_collections_and_institutional_repositories/1392140

Open Access platforms: Open Educational Resources, or something else?

http://www.auedtech.org/posts/open-access-platforms-open-educational-resources-or-something-else/

An Educator’s Perspective on Moodle

http://www.auedtech.org/posts/an-educators-perspective-on-moodle/

Why Medicine is Plagued with Fake Research

http://www.cheatsheet.com/business/why-medicine-is-plagued-with-fake-research.html/

Does peer review do more harm than good?

http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/does-peer-review-do-more-harm-than-good/

Will traditional science journals disappear?

http://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2015/may/12/will-traditional-science-journals-disappear

Open Access Meets Discoverability: Citations to Articles Posted to Academia.edu

https://www.academia.edu/12297791/Open_Access_Meets_Discoverability_Citations_to_Articles_Posted_to_Academia.edu

Evidence of Paper Mills Seeking to Collaborate with Legitimate Journals?

http://scholarlyoa.com/2015/04/30/evidence-of-paper-mills-seeking-to-collaborate-with-legitimate-journals/

A Conference Manifesto for the Rest of Us

https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2015/05/15/competing-manifesto-value-academic-conferences-essay

Why I Love Academic Conferences - How to get the most out of a scholarly meeting

http://m.chronicle.com/article/Why-I-Love-Academic/229515

The Open Access Interviews: John Willinsky

http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/the-open-access-interviews-john.html

 

Open Educational Resources:

Open Textbooks – The Current State of Play

http://www.acenet.edu/news-room/Documents/Quick-Hits-Open-Textbooks.pdf

Why Interactive Content May Be the Most Exciting Marketing Tactic of 2015

http://www.copyblogger.com/interactive-content/

Coursera’s Andrew Ng: How MOOCs Are Taking Local Knowledge Global

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/how-moocs-are-taking-local-knowledge-global/

 

Plagiarism

Use of Turnitin software does not deter cheating, study finds

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/418740.article

Plagiarism Tutorials

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/plagiarism_citation_and_referencing/Plagiarism_Tutorials

 

Referencing Tutorials

Different Referencing Styles - Tutorials

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/plagiarism_citation_and_referencing/ReferencingStyles

 

Conference alerts:

Open Source: transforming information access in libraries - Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS)

13-14 August, 2015 – Stellenbosch, South Africa

http://conferences.sun.ac.za/index.php/IFLA_IT/IFLA-IT2015