Day March 19, 2012

March 19, 2012

Infojustice Roundup Intellectual Property and the Public Interest Trans Pacific Partnership Negotiation News TPP Intellectual Property Negotiations Headed to Chile April 9-13 U.S. Proposal for IP and Medicines in the TPP Faces Stiff Opposition Maine State House of Representatives Calls…

Siyavula – Free Textbooks in South Africa

The Sunday Times has reported on Siyavula,  a project started by Mark Horner that has provided over 2.4 million textbooks to high schools in South Africa.  Siyavula volunteers write textbooks for 10th-to-12th grade math and science classes, which are published…

Research Councils UK Plans to Extend Open Access Policy

Reposted from University of Lincoln Research Blog Annalisa Jones (CC BY-SA 2.0) Research Councils UK (RCUK) have produced a draft policy paper which sees an amendment to open access policies whereby it will be mandatory for all RCUK-funded papers be made…