I will be out of the office from 25 April until 7 May 2015, so there will be no newsletter while I am away.

 

Intellectual Property

Copyright and the Value of the Public Domain: An empirical assessment (2015)(UK IPO)

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/415014/Copyright_and_the_value_of_the_public_domain.pdf

Copyright Notice: public exhibition of copyright works (UK IPO)

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/415698/Copyright_Notice_-_5_2015_exhibition_of_works.pdf

Does Longer Copyright Protection Help or Hurt Scientific Knowledge Citation?

http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/18/2/23.html

Fair Use and Its Politics - At Home and Abroad

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2595717

World IP Day 2015: “Get Up, Stand Up. For Music” on April 26

http://www.wipo.int/ip-outreach/en/ipday/

Estate Of Joseph Goebbels Using Copyright To Demand Cash From New Biographer

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150419/05442430718/estate-joseph-goebbels-using-copyright-to-demand-cash-new-b

 

Open Access, A2k & Scholarly Communication:

Evaluating the Effects of E-readers in Libraries in Kenya – Final Report 2015

http://cdn.worldreader.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/PROJECT_LEAP.pdf

The Leiden Manifesto for research metrics

https://citationculture.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/leiden-manifesto-for-research-metrics-published-in-nature/

http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/1.17351!/menu/main/topColumns/topLeftColumn/pdf/520429a.pdf

Current trends of the open access digital repositories in Library and Information Science

http://www.ijidt.com/index.php/ijidt/article/view/598

Open Research and Collaboration

https://emckiernan.wordpress.com/2015/04/09/open-research-and-collaborations/

Rule rewrite aims to clean up scientific software

http://www.nature.com/news/rule-rewrite-aims-to-clean-up-scientific-software-1.17323

Open Access vs. Closed Access

http://blogs.lt.vt.edu/ytaylor9/2015/04/21/open-access-vs-closed-access/

Scholarly Communication and Peer Review The Current Landscape and Future Trends – 2015

 http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/stellent/groups/corporatesite/@policy_communications/documents/web_document/wtp059003.pdf

The Road to 2020: Envisioning Higher Education & the Library Environment for a Shifting Future

http://blendedlibrarian.learningtimes.net/the-road-to-2020/#.VTn3lU-JiHt

Aligning Repository Networks Across Regions

https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/advocacy-leadership/aligning-repository-networks-across-regions/

Estimating open access mandate effectiveness: I. The MELIBEA Score

http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/370203/

Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ on: Periodicals Price Survey 2015

http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2015/04/publishing/whole-lotta-shakin-goin-on-periodicals-price-survey-2015/#_

 

Data and Data Management

Who Cares about Open Data?

http://www.govtech.com/data/Who-Cares-About-Open-Data.html

Brief: Open, Online Database Of Clinical Trials Planned

http://www.ip-watch.org/2015/04/22/open-online-database-of-clinical-trials-announced/

http://opentrials.net/

The big medical data miss: challenges in establishing an open medical resource

http://thegovlab.org/the-big-medical-data-miss-challenges-in-establishing-an-open-medical-resource/