Intellectual Property:
Copyright Exceptions for Access to the Blind – Indian Copyright Law
http://www.sinapseblog.com/33168-2/
The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing
http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html
MultiChoice on the hunt for TV thieves
http://www.channel24.co.za/TV/News/MultiChoice-on-the-hunt-for-TV-thieves-20151105
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:
OECD Education at a Glance Interim Report:- Update of Employment and Educational Attainment Indicators January 2015
http://www.oecd.org/edu/EAG-Interim-report.pdf
UNESCO Introduction to Open Access 2015
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0023/002319/231920E.pdf
Crowdfunding academic research: a tough crowd?
http://www.internationalinnovation.com/crowdfunding-academic-research-tough-crowd/
Reinventing science’s social contract in the 21st century
http://www.euroscientist.com/reinventing-sciences-social-contract-in-the-21st-century/
Myths about Open Access
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/ScholarlyCommunication/Myths_about_OA
Legal Deposit in South Africa:
Legal Deposit in South Africa Newsletters for 17, 21, 22 and 26 November 2015
http://www.africanlii.org/blogs/denise
Library Matters
National Council for Library and Information Services (NCLIS) - Resources
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/LegalDeposit/NCLIS
Access and Persons with Disabilities
National Day of Persons with Disabilities:
3 December 2015 - Union Buildings, Pretoria, South Africa
Time: 09h00 – 15h00 - Contact: Benny Palime at BennyP@dsd.gov.za
Disability, Poverty and World Development: Issues and Evidence
Dec 8, Cape Town, South Africa
For information and registration: email: emma@disabilityincluded.co.za
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
Conference / Webinar Alerts:
Knowledge Unlatched Round 2 Webinar
2 December 2015
Register: https://www.lyrasis.org/Pages/EventDetail.aspx?Eid=7472287D-B888-E511-AFEB-00155D0A8817
SCECSAL 2016 Conference
25-29 April 2016 - Royal Swazi Sun, eZulwini, Swaziland