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)
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
Digitisation set to disrupt SA education
Surprising Gadgets, Not Just Books, Are Ready for Checkout at College Libraries
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
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
Conferences:
7th International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries
26-29 May 2015 – Paris, France