Intellectual Property:

About That Copyright Exception for Political Advertising … Never Mind (Canada)

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2014/10/copyright-exception-political-advertising-never-mind/

Isn’t Fair Dealing Enough – Government Considering Copyright Exception to Cover Political Advertising (Canada)

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2014/10/isnt-fair-dealing-enough-government-considering-copyright-exception-cover-political-advertising/

WIPO Launches Guide On Use Of IP For Arts And Cultural Festivals

http://www.ip-watch.org/2014/10/24/wipo-launches-guide-on-use-of-ip-for-arts-and-cultural-festivals/

http://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo_pub_1043.pdf

Private Copying and Downloading form Unlawful Sources

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2513794

Legalizing File-Sharing: An Idea Whose Time Has Come – Or Gone? Report from the Information Influx Conference 2014

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2510545

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Tips for Evaluating Journals (including Open Access Journals)

http://sites.stfx.ca/library/evaluating_OA_journals

Consolidated List of Accredited Journals (for DHET)

http://library.nwu.ac.za/dbtw-wpd/textbases/accredited-journals.html

Research Is Just the Beginning: A Free People Must Have Open Access to the Law

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/research-just-beginning-free-people-must-have-open-access-law

Open Access Isn’t Just About Open Access

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/open-access-isnt-just-about-open-access

Public.Resource.Org –Making Government Information More Accessible

https://public.resource.org/

Digitisation set to disrupt SA education

http://www.itweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=138722:Digitisation-set-to-disrupt-SA-education&catid=9

Surprising Gadgets, Not Just Books, Are Ready for Checkout at College Libraries

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/surprising-gadgets-not-just-books-are-ready-for-checkout-at-college-libraries/54985

Preference for Print or Electronic Book Depends on User’s Purpose for Consulting

http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP/article/view/22061

 

Predatory Publishing Practices:

New Predatory Publisher Copies Look and Feel of BioMed Central

http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/09/11/new-predatory-publisher-copies-look-and-feel-of-biomed-central/#more-4141

The Scientific World Journal Will Lose Its Impact Factor — Again

http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/10/14/the-scientific-world-journal-will-lose-its-impact-factor-again/

Beall’s List: Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers

http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/

List of Standalone Journals: Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals

http://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/

I Sold My Undergraduate Thesis to a Print Content Farm

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/03/lap_lambert_academic_publishing_my_trip_to_a_print_content_farm.html

 

Conferences:

7th International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries

26-29 May 2015 – Paris, France

http://www.isast.org/