Intellectual Property:

Swiss Supreme Court: document delivery service for scientific articles

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2015/07/swiss-supreme-court-document-delivery_27.html

German Copyright Act Art. 38(4) 2013 -  contributions to collections (deposits in institutional repositories)

http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_urhg/englisch_urhg.html

The Copyright Office Belongs in a Library (USA)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/07/copyright-office-belongs-library

TPP Undermines User Control and That's Disastrous for Accessibility

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/07/tpp-undermines-user-control-and-thats-disastrous-accessibility

Disability, right to culture and copyright: which regulatory option?

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13600869.2015.1055658#abstract

 

Open Educational Resources:

Sage 50 OERs

https://edge.sagepub.com/

OER Tools for Teaching/Education

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/c.php?g=145371&p=1349582

 

Data and Data Management:

How Big Data has Transformed Research

http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2015/jul/10/how-big-data-has-transformed-research

Resources on Big Data

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/digitisation_preservation_and_digitalcuration/BigData

Open Data and the Politics of Scholarly Practice

http://martinhallfacilitation.org/2015/07/30/open-data-and-the-politics-of-scholarly-practice/

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

SPARC Applauds Senate Committee Action on Public Access Legislation (USA)

http://www.sparc.arl.org/news/sparc-applauds-senate-committee-action-on-public-access-legislation

Observatory of Cultural Policies in Africa

http://www.ocpanet.org/activities/newsletter/2015/

OA 1000+: more than 1,000 digitized publications by WZB researchers to be availabe as Open Access

https://www.wzb.eu/en/library/services/open-access/oa-1000

Maximizing the Impact of Institutional knowledge Using DSpace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxftQQE-rNk&feature=youtu.be&a

 

Predatory Publishing Practices

Predatory Publishing Isn’t The Problem, It’s a Symptom of Information Inequality

http://www.digital-science.com/blog/perspectives/predatory-publishing-isnt-the-problem-its-a-symptom-of-information-inequality/

Beyond Beall’s List: We need a better understanding of predatory publishing without overstating its size and danger

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/03/18/beyond-bealls-list-predatory-publishers/

The Scholarly Kitchen Podcast: Talking Publication Ethics Transcript of 15 July 2015 show

http://www.sspnet.org/scholarlykitchen/podcast/transcripts/20150715_tsk_podcast_transcript.pdf