Useful Links

Consumer Protection:

• Consumer Survey on Copyright Access Barriers
• Consumers International (CI)
• Consumers International IP Watch List 2009
• Creative Commons
• Farmers' Rights
• Federal Trade Commission Protecting America’s Consumers
• Resource Shelf

Creative Commons:

• Creative Commons Use By Museums
• Get Creative
• Government Use of CC Licenses
• Open Database of Educational Projects and Organizations (ODEPO)
• Open Education at Creative Commons
• Quick Reference Guide to Finding Creative Commons Material – for Teachers and Students
• Reuse of Material in the Context of Education and Research
• Science Commons

For Libraries:

• A Development Pack for Institutional Repositories
• Academic Liberarian
• African Digital Library
• American University In Bulgaria
• Ariadne
• ASIS&T Bulletin - Institutional Repositories: The Great Debate
• Association of College & Research Libraries
• CAIRSS - (CAUL Australian Institutional Repository Support Service)
• Canadian Association of Research Libraries
• Canadian Association of Research Libraries
• Canadian Liberary Assosiation
• Copyright Portal
• Coyright & A2K Information Service launched!
• Curious Librarian – From Philosophy To Practice
• DCC
• Digital Libraries - Online Publications, Exhibits, Documents & Journals
• Digitization & Preservation
• DRIVER Guidelines for Repository Managers
• Electronic Information for Liberaries
• Free Books - Project Gutenberg
• Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia
• How do I make my research papers openly available without leaving out peer-review?
• IFLA Information Technology Section’s newsletter
• Increasing Self- Achieving of Faculty Publications in Institutional Repositories
• Indian Traditional Knowledge Digital Library Website of Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani
• Institutional repositories policies on the World Wide Web
• Internatinal Federation of Liberary Association
• Library intelligencer
• Library Law Blog
• LIBRES
• List of digital library projects
• National Library of the Netherlands
• Newspaper Archive
• Newspaper Archive – Explore, Discover, share
• On Libraries and a Future without Petroleum
• Open Access to Knowledge and Information
• Publisher copyright policies and self-archiving
• Scholarly Communication in Crisis
• TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
• The Library in the New Age
• The Case for Long-Term Electronic Data Archiving
• The Center For Research Libraries
• The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC)
• The Green Library
• University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
• Wikisource – the Free Library That Anyone Can Improve

International Organizations and IP:

• Afro-IP – African IP law, practice and policies
• Case Western Reverse University
• Development Agenda for WIPO
• Egypt IPR Portal
• Intellectual Network for the South
• Intellectual Property – the British Library’s Perspective
• International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
• IP Justice
• Knowledge Ecology Studies
• Multilingual Educational Resources about Intellectual Property and the Public Domain
• New at WIPO
• Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
• P2P Foundation/IP Category
• Rebuplic of South Africa/IP laws Amendment bills and policy
• Republic of South Africa/ Trade And Industry/General Notice
• Source of OECD
• South Centre
• South Centre : Intellectual Property Quarterly Update
• South Centre and CIEL IP Quarterly Update - Intellectual Property and Development
• Teaching Copyright
• Translate the Comic!
• UNESCO
• WIPO University Initiative
• WIPO Useful Links
• WIPO/ Traditional Knowledge

Miscellaneous links:

• 2009 Special 301 Report (USA)
• 50 Best Blogs for Education Leaders
• A book publisher’s manifesto for the 21st century
• Alaska Native Science Commission
• Asia and the Commons Case Study 2008
• Association for Progressive Communications
• Copy Right, Copy Sense
• Copyright in Photography
• Copyright Watch – Copyright law
• Creativity Portal
• Culturelink Network
• Cyberbee
• Duke law/ Faculty and Scholarship
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Electronic Privacy Information Center
• Farmers' Rights
• Gender Evaluation Methodology
• Get More from Your Academic Research
• Get rid of the patent absurdities
• Information Today, Inc
• Jorum
• Know Your Rights As an Author
• Legal Issues Related to Digitization
• Open access and the self-correction of knowledge
• Open Source Cinema
• Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving
• Research funders open access policies
• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog
• The African Copyright & Access to Knowledge Project
• The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge
• The Fair Use Network (USA)
• The real ACTA threat
• The scholarly Kitchen – What’s Hot and Cooking in Scholarly Publishing
• The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
• Traditional Knowledge
• UK Commission Report Highlights Negative Impacts Of IPRS On Development
• UK Web Archive – Preserving UK Websites
• Using the SPARC Author Addendum
• WebCite
• What we don't know about open access

Open access initiatives:

• 100 Free Lecturers that will make you a Better Writer
• 100 Free Open Courseware Classes About Open Source Everything
• 11 Free Open Source Alternatives for Designers
• 12 Web Learning Resources and Applications
• 50 Places to Find Free Books online
• 700 Publishers Covered by RoMEO
• a survey of the research community
• AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom
• African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
• Another society journal converts to OA
• Australia’s Free Online Network for Educators
• Authors and Open Access
• Bioline International
• BioMed Central
• Blogs about Open Access
• Bloomsburry Academic
• Case Study: Open Access Yields Solid Growth for Hindawi
• Centre for the Study of the Public Domain – What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on January 1, 2010?
• CMS-E-Learning
• COAR: Confederation of Open Access Repositories
• Create Change
• Developing Nations Initiatives
• Dictionary of Open Access Journals
• Digital Libraries - Online Publications, Exhibits, Documents & Journals
• Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research
• D-Lib Magazine
• Dovepress – Open Access to Scientific and Medical Research
• Downloadable Resources - International
• DSpace
• DuraSpace
• Educational Materials about OA
• EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative
• E-Learning gateway
• Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography
• E-Medical Education
• Everything That's Not Happening in the WTO
• Free Culture
• Free Documentaries.org – The Truth is Free
• Free Learning - OER Resources
• Get More from Your Academic Research
• Global Court – Supreme Court Decisions from Around The World
• Global Knowledge Exchange (GKEN)
• Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)
• Hindawi Publishing Corporation
• how Hindawi became an open access publisher
• International Open Source Network
• Internet Archive – Universal Access to All Knowledge
• IREL - Open Project
• Issues in Scholarly Communications
• JURN directory
• Knowledge Exchange
• Lawrence Lessig on "Open Content and the Ethics of Science"
• Learning Space
• Libertas Academica
• MIT Open Course Ware
• National Accessibility Portal (NAP)
• Net Media Europe
• NISCAIR Online Periodicals Repository
• OAK Law Project
• Oasis
• OER: Open Educational Resources for Africans
• Open Access Anthropology in Africa
• Open Access Archivangelism Blog
• Open Access Day
• Open Access Funder Policies
• Open Access in South Africa
• Open Access Journal – First Monday
• Open Access Journal Collection
• Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcsbook
• Open Access Webliography
• Open Book Publishers – a new approach to academic publishing
• Open Culture
• Open DOAR
• Open Educational Resources
• Open Educational Resources Commons
• Open J-Gate
• Open Journal Systems
• Open Journals - Open access links
• Open Journals Publishing
• Open Knowledge Foundation Blog
• Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning
• Open Medicine
• Open Reflections: Publishing, Peer Review and Quality Certification in the Digital Age
• Open Science At Web-Scale: Optimising Participation and Predictive Potential
• Open Shakespeare
• Open Society Institute
• Open Text Books
• Open University Research Repository
• Open…– Open Source, Open Genomics, Open Content
• OpenCourseWare (MIT)
• Opening Access to Australian Archives
• OpenNet Initiative
• OpenThesis
• Peter Suber on NIH Mandate Misconceptions
• PLoS Medicine
• Public Library of Science
• Public Access Mandate made Law (USA)
• Public Domain Works DBBeta
• Public Knolwedge Project (PKP)
• Publishers allowing the deposition of their published version/PDF in Institutional Repositories
• PubMed Central Canada
• Ranking Web of World Repositories
• Remixable Textbooks by Expert Authors, Free Online and Affordable Offline
• Repository Man
• ROARMAP
• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog
• Scholarpedia
• Southern African Legal Information Institute
• Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII)
• Study Guides and Strategies
• Teachability Web Site
• The Memory of Modern Egypt project
• The Open Dentistry Journal
• The Open Knowledge Definition
• TicTocs – new free scholarly journal tables of contents (TOCs) service.
• Time Line of the Open Access Movement
• Two New Webcasts About Scholarly Publishing/Open Access
• UNESCO-OER – Open Educational Resources
• Web2Rights
• Webology – Open Access articles
• What you can do to promote Open Access
• WikiEducator: Free e-learning content
• WIKIPEDIA
• World Legal Information Institute – Free, Independent and Non-Profit Access to Worldwide law
• Worldwide momentum for public access to publicly funded research

Science and R&D:

• @Mire Labs (for Institutional Repositories’)
• 100 Most Inspiring and Innovative Blogs for Educators
• Academic knowledge development
• ACADEMICINFO
• Access to Knowledge.org – Where Medical Experts Talk to You
• African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND)
• American Education Research Association Special Interest Group (AERA SIG) Communication of Research
• Authors’ rights, your rights (Video – Dutch with English subtitles)
• Center for Innovation Law and Policy
• Collaborative Online Medical Encyclopedia Goes Live (Medipedia)
• DCU Online Research Access Service
• Development the Company of Biologists
• Digital Curation Centre (DCC) – Because Good Research Needs Good Data
• Digital Repositories Roadmap Review: towards a vision for research and learning in 2013
• Digital Scholarship
• Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography
• Guidelines
• IFLA Science & Technology Newsletter
• International Policy Network Health Blog
• Internet World Stats - Usage & Population Statistics
• Intute – Helping You Find The Best Websites for Study and Research
• John Ben Devette’s blog – New Paradigms In Scholary Communication: A Series of Lectures on the Future of Academic Publishing
• Journal of Hematology & Oncology (now OA)
• Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and online Teaching, MERLOT
• Online Universities.com
• Open Science Directory
• Plagiarism (Free Online Plagiarism Detection System)
• Plagiarism Portal
• Public Liberary of Science
• Research Funders’ Open Access Policies
• Research in International Management Products & Services for Academics
• ResearchGATE – Scientific Network
• Sanger Institute
• SARUA – Southern African Regional Universities Association
• Scholarly communication and open access
• Scholarly Communications Report
• Scientific American
• Scientists ‘obliged’ to share wisdom (Australia)
• Supporting Education and Research JISC
• The Future of Digital Textbooks Presentation
• The RePEc Blog
• The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition
• The Scientist
• ThoughtMesh
• UbuntuNet for Research and Education Networking