Intellectual Property:

Authors Guild Petulantly Whines About How Wrong It Is That The Public Will Benefit From Google Books

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160419/00081534205/authors-guild-petulantly-whines-about-how-wrong-it-is-that-public-will-benefit-google-books.shtml

Leaked IP Chapter Of Asian FTA Reveals Tough Rules For Poorer Partners, Civil Society Says

http://www.ip-watch.org/2016/04/20/leaked-ip-chapter-of-asian-fta-reveals-tough-rules-for-poorer-partners-civil-society-says/

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

The Open Access Interviews: Sir Timothy Gowers, Mathematician

http://poynder.blogspot.co.za/2016/04/the-open-access-interviews-sir-timothy.html

Moral dimensions of Open, part 5: whose responsibility is this?

https://svpow.com/2016/04/19/moral-dimensions-of-open-part-5-whose-responsibility-is-this/

Open access repositories start to offer overlay peer review services

http://www.openscholar.org.uk/institutional-repositories-start-to-offer-peer-review-services/

Libraries’ statewide collaboration establishes public digital content hub

http://news.psu.edu/story/405170/2016/04/19/academics/libraries%E2%80%99-statewide-collaboration-establishes-public-digital

Openness is the absence of restrictions, so ultimately about freedom” Rob Farrow #OEGlobal #go_gn

https://chrissinerantzi.wordpress.com/2016/04/18/openness-is-the-absence-of-restrictions-so-ultimately-about-freedom-rob-farrow-oeglobal-go_gn/

Making things besides journal articles available

http://christinaslisrant.scientopia.org/2016/04/18/making-things-besides-journal-articles-available/

Open Access Publishing Made Easy for Conferences

http://altbibl.io/gazette/open-access-publishing-made-easy-for-conferences/

Report from the Knowledge Exchange event: Pathways to open scholarship - Held in Helsinki, December 2015

http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/6383/1/Report_on_KE_Event_-_Pathways_to_Open_Scholarship.pdf

How hard would it be for an academic field to switch to open access publishing?

http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/how-hard-would-it-be-for-an-academic-field-to-switch-to-open-access-publishing

SAIDE newsletter 2016

http://www.saide.org.za/resources/newsletters/Vol_22_no.1_2016/1_2016%20web.html

 

Audiobooks/eBooks:

Forget e-books, this may be the real future of reading

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-some-audiobooks-sell-four-times-as-well-as-their-print-versions-2015-12-08

How audiobooks took over the industry

http://www.quillandquire.com/omni/audio-killed-the-ebook-star-how-audiobooks-took-over-the-industry

700 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free

http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks

Global Audiobook Trends and Statistics for 2016

http://goodereader.com/blog/interviews/global-audiobook-trends-and-statistics-for-2016

 

Open Educational Resources:

The Open Syllabus Project Gathers 1,000,000 Syllabi from Universities & Reveals the 100 Most Frequently-Taught Books

http://www.openculture.com/2016/01/the-open-syllabus-project-gathers-1000000-syllabi-from-universities.html

265 Free Documentaries Online

http://www.openculture.com/free-documentaries-online

 

Conference Alerts:

PASTEUR4OA/Conference Programme

17-18 May, 2016 – Amsterdam. The Netherlands

http://www.pasteur4oa.eu/draft-conference-program