Intellectual Property:
IPR, Technology Transfer & Open Science : Challenges and opportunities
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/event/workshop/ipr-technology-transfer-open-science
Response re: Modernising the European Copyright Framework
http://www.iposgoode.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/IPOModernisingIPProfResponsePressPublishers.pdf
Permissions and the Postgraduate: What you need to know about the right to reproduce images (UK)
Opinion: An Ethical Code for Conferences
Access for Persons with Disabilities:
EU Adoption Of Marrakesh Treaty For Blind Readers Imminent After Years Of Delay?
http://www.ip-watch.org/2017/02/01/eu-adoption-marrakesh-treaty-blind-readers-imminent-years-delay/
Various Resources for Persons with Disabilities
- http://libguides.wits.ac.za/LearningDisabilities
- http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Physical_and_Neurological_Disabilities
- http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Resources_for_Blind_and_Visually-Impaired
- http://libguides.wits.ac.za/deaf_and_hardofhearing
Questionable Publishing Practices/Fake Information:
Predatory Publishers’ Archived Lists
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/openaccess_a2k_scholarly_communication/Predatory_Publishers
Alternative Facts and Fake News – Verifiability in the Information Society
The challenge facing libraries in an era of fake news
https://theconversation.com/the-challenge-facing-libraries-in-an-era-of-fake-news-70828
Call for applications:
The Initiative ‘Young African Library Innovators’ (IYALI)
https://esms.eifl.net/call-applications-initiative-young-african-library-innovators-iyali
Conference Alert:
PKP 2017 International Scholarly Publishing Conference
2-4 August, 2017 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada
https://pkp.sfu.ca/pkp2017/index