Intellectual Property:
United States: Judge Posner Solves Sherlock Holmes Copyright Case
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:
Nature Communications data shows open access articles have more views and downloads
http://www.nature.com/press_releases/ncomms-report.html
Altmetrics
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/content.php?pid=155021&sid=4542373
How 'Google Science' could transform academic publishing
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-08/13/google-science-would-we-need-it
Digital Preservation and Curation:
Seven Pillars of Digital Curation
http://archivesandinformation.com/quantum/?p=652
55 Content Curation Tools To Discover & Share Digital Content
Mobile Technologies & Social Networking
Beware the apps you download
http://today.moneyweb.co.za/article.php?id=768092&cid=2014-08-13#.U_b1EE_lqHt
Social Networking & Related resources
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Mobile_Technologies
Open Educational Resources:
Directory of Open Educational Resources
OER Resources
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Open_Educational_Resources
Conference alerts:
International Educational Technology Conference IETC 2014
3-5 September 2014 – Chicago, USA
Mobile Web in Africa 2014
10-11 September 2014 – Johannesburg, South Africa
http://mobilewebafrica.com/2014/
Virtual Conference : User Experience: Seeing Your Library through the User’s Eyes
19 September 2014 - For more information and to register, see: http://tinyurl.com/seflinvirtconf2014
AfriNEAD Conference 2014
3rd- 5th November 2014 - Sun and Sand Holiday Resort, Mangochi, Malawi.
http://blogs.sun.ac.za/afrinead/2014/02/04/news-article-2/
SWIB14 Semantic Web in Libraries Conference
1 - 3 December 2014 - Bonn, Germany
http://swib.org/swib14/programme.php
The Fifth Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship 2015
2-5 April, 2015 - Osaka, Japan