Copyright & A2K Issues - 4 October 2010

4 October 2010 · Denise Nicholson

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FYI,

Regards,

Denise

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Intellectual Property:

WIPO launches New Customer Services Center

http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2010/article_0039.html

Intellectual property right not an end in itself: India

http://news.in.msn.com/international/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4420086

ACTA is no done deal!

http://www.laquadrature.net/en/acta-is-no-done-deal

State Needs to Enforce Laws to End Runaway Biopiracy

http://allafrica.com/stories/201010040014.html

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Changing research in Mozambique with a shared institutional repository

http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/news/spotlight/2010_09_03_changing-rese
arch-in

Augmented reality: it's like real life, but better

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/mar/21/augmented-reality-iphon
e-advertising

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality

Web 2.0 Online Tools and Applications

http://www.go2web20.net/

Celebrating Open Access in October 2010

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/10-02-10.htm#coming

http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/2010#October

http://wikieducator.org/Open_Access_Week_2010

Open Access conferences in 2011

http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/2011

Open Access - James Boyle

http://www.openaccessweek.org/video/open-access-duke-james-boyle

The Open Access Situation in Developing and Transition Countries: a
Report from the eIFL General Assembly 2010 in Lund

http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/news/media/open-access-situation-in/dow
nloadFile/file/EIFL_GA_2010_Lund.pdf?nocache=1285575761.09

Does Africa need to be in space?

http://www.scidev.net/en/opinions/does-africa-need-to-be-in-space-.html

Equal Education Campaign

http://www.equaleducation.org.za/

http://blog.soros.org/2010/03/one-school-one-library-one-librarian/

Regards

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

Copyright Services Librarian,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
The Library, Private Bag X1, WITS, 2050, South Africa
Tel. No. + 27 11 717-1929
Fax No. + 27 11 717-1946

Email Fax: 0865533134
http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/Services/COPYRIGHT.htm
<http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/Services/COPYRIGHT.htm>
http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/ResearchResources/SubjectPortals/Copyright
+and+Related+Issues.htm
<http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/ResearchResources/SubjectPortals/Copyrigh
t+and+Related+Issues.htm>

Blogs: http://kim.wits.ac.za
<https://email.wits.ac.za/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://kim.wits.ac.z
a/> and http://www.aca2k.org
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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Fri Oct 8 11:07:55 2010
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 11:07:55 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 8 October 2010
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FYI,

Regards,

Denise

Intellectual Property:

Canada: Canada's New Copyright Bill and Consumer Rights - What's the
Fuss?

http://www.mondaq.com/canada/article.asp?articleid=111396&email_access=o
n

ACTA - Sorting through the Spin

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5351/125/

Zambia: Govt launches National Intellectual Property policy

http://www.lusakatimes.com/2010/10/05/govt-launches-national-intellectua
l-property-policy/

Traditional Knowledge:

Meeting review: TK at the WIPO Assembly
<http://tkbulletin.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/meeting-review-tk-at-the-wip
o-assembly/>

http://tkbulletin.wordpress.com/2010/10/

Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights of Indigenous Peoples of the
Pacific

http://nadinafijitruth.blogspot.com/2010/10/cultural-and-intellectual-pr
operty.html

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Resources for Researchers

http://www.wipo.int/tk/en/databases/creative_heritage/researchers/link00
31.html

First results of the SOAP project. Open access publishing in 2010

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1010/1010.0506.pdf

The Horizon Report 2010

http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2010/

Free Trade Agreements:

Forget the FTA fix, just say no

http://www.bilaterals.org/spip.php?article18225

Regards

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

Copyright Services Librarian,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
The Library, Private Bag X1, WITS, 2050, South Africa
Tel. No. + 27 11 717-1929
Fax No. + 27 11 717-1946

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Wed Oct 13 10:37:51 2010
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:37:51 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 13 October 2010
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FYI,

Regards,

Denise

Intellectual Property:

Triggering the Synergies between Intellectual Property Rights and
Biodiversity

http://www2.gtz.de/wbf/4tDx9kw63gma/gtz2010-en-iprs-and-biodiversity-rea
der.pdf

Online pirates leave copyright laws all at sea

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/pirates-leave-copyright-l
aws-all-at-sea/story-e6frg996-1225936843404?from=public_rss

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

7 Major Ways We're Digitizing Our World, And 3 Reasons We Still Want
Hardcopies
<http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/10/7-major-ways-were-digitizing-ou
r-world-and-3-reasons-we-still-want-hardcopies.php>

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/10/7-major-ways-were-digitizing-our
-world-and-3-reasons-we-still-want-hardcopies.php

Let's Make Open Access Work

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/03/15/lets-make-open-access-work
/

The economics of Open Access

http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/2010/09/24/the-economics-of-open
-access/

Open Access, Open Secrets: Peer Review and Alternative Scholarly
Production

http://victelecom.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/open-access-open-secrets-peer
-review-and-alternative-scholarly-production/

Universities are blind to open-learning train set to smash up their
models

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode
=413596&c=1

Denying The Public Domain Has A Very Real Cost

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101011/03404211358/denying-the-public
-domain-has-a-very-real-cost.shtml

PubIT Is Another Nail In Traditional Publishing Model
<http://bookseller-association.blogspot.com/2010/10/pubit-is-another-nai
l-in-traditional.html>

http://bookseller-association.blogspot.com/2010/10/pubit-is-another-nail
-in-traditional.html

Five Digital Publishing Considerations

http://bookseller-association.blogspot.com/2010/10/five-digital-publishi
ng-considerations.html

OAPEN Library launched successfully

http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/oapen-library-launched

GreeningIT directory

http://www.apc.org/en/resources

Wikipedia Founder gets cash award for democratizing knowledge

http://www.techeye.net/internet/wikipedia-founder-gets-cash-award-for-de
mocratizing-knowledge

Docuticker

http://www.docuticker.com/

DocuBase

http://web.docuticker.com/go/docubase/

Traditional Knowledge:

South African San Council : AT !Khwattu, Western Cape

http://flemishcentreforindigenouspeoples.skynetblogs.be/archive/2010/10/
10/south-african-san-council-at-khwattu-western-cape.html

Conference alert:

Symposium: Enhancing the Culture of Reading and Books in the Digital
Age

1-2 December 2010 at National Diet Library, Tokyo, Japan.

http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/event/events/sympo1201.html

Regards

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

Copyright Services Librarian,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
The Library, Private Bag X1, WITS, 2050, South Africa
Tel. No. + 27 11 717-1929
Fax No. + 27 11 717-1946

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Mon Oct 18 15:17:56 2010
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:17:56 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 18 October 2010
Message-ID: <799133C31EA6CE45B6085C6996225F162EB5D8@GAIA.ds.wits.ac.za>

FYI,

Regards,

Denise

Celebrating Open Access Week!

Open Access Week (18-23 October 2010)

http://www.openaccessweek.org/

EPrints celebrates its 10th birthday

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/about/news/3445

Open Access for UK Research - JISC's contributions

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/programmerelated/2010/openaccessmainb
rochure.aspx

The Open Access citation advantage: Studies and results to date

http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18516/

Open Citation Linking: the way forward

http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/7717/

What Universities and Administrators Can Do to Promote Open Access

http://plos1.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/what-universities-and-admin-can
-do.pdf

Open Educational Resources

http://www.oercommons.org/

Registry of Open Access Repositories

http://roar.eprints.org/

Directory of Open Access Repositories

http://www.opendoar.org/

OAIster Database

http://www.oclc.org/oaister/

Versitopen.com

http://www.versitaopen.com/

Open Access South Africa

http://openaccessweek.org/group/openaccesssouthafrica?commentId=5385115%
3AComment%3A6047&xg_source=activity

Sabinet Open Access Journals

http://www.sabinet.co.za/?page=open-access-journals

African Journal Archive

http://www.sabinet.co.za/?page=african-journal-archive

Open Access Initiatives in South Africa

http://www.driver-support.eu/pmwiki/index.php?n=Main.SouthAfrica

SciELO South Africa

http://www.scielo.org.za/

Open Access at Wits University, Johannesburg:

* Open Access Week

http://www.weblearning.co.za/blog/index.php/2010/09/30/plans-for-open-ac
cess-week-at-wits/

* Wits Open Access Portal

http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/ResearchResources/SubjectPortals/Open+Acce
ss+A2K+and+Scholarly+Communication.htm

* Wits Institutional Repository on DSpace (WIReDSpace)

http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/

African Copyright & Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) Project

http://www.aca2k.org/

Protection of Information Bill (South Africa)

FXI press release on Silent March on Tuesday, 19 October 2010

http://liasahelig.blogspot.com/2010/10/lib-helig-l-fxi-press-release-on-
silent.html

Regards

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

Copyright Services Librarian,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
The Library, Private Bag X1, WITS, 2050, South Africa
Tel. No. + 27 11 717-1929
Fax No. + 27 11 717-1946

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Tue Oct 19 15:22:12 2010
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:22:12 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 19 October 2010
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FYI,

Regards,

Denise

Intellectual Property:

http://www.mondaq.com/australia/article.asp?articleid=113188&email_acces
s=on

Traditional Knowledge:

SA backs Africa at biodiversity meeting

http://www.buanews.gov.za/news/10/10101813251001

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

New evidence of the power of Open Access

http://www.molecularstation.com/science-news/2010/10/new-evidence-of-the
-power-of-open-access/

4 Very Different Futures Are Imagined for Research Libraries

http://chronicle.com/article/4-Very-Different-Futures-Are/125011/

Why do scientists do research? Personal motivation, social impact and
politics
<http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/gray-area/2009/10/15/open-research-personal
-socail-and-plitical>

http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/gray-area/2009/10/15/open-research-personal-
socail-and-plitical

The Right to Know Campaign (R2K)

http://www.r2k.org.za/

ResearchGate Scientific Network

http://www.researchgate.net/

Access to Information at the World Bank: The First 99 Days
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chad-dobson/access-to-information-at_b_76
7079.html>

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chad-dobson/access-to-information-at_b_767
079.html

Open Educational Resources:

Commonwealth of Learning Integrated e-Learning and Programmes in 2010

http://www.col.org/PROGSERV/PROGRAMMES/LIVELIHOODS/Pages/eLearning.aspx

Regards

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

Copyright Services Librarian,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
The Library, Private Bag X1, WITS, 2050, South Africa
Tel. No. + 27 11 717-1929
Fax No. + 27 11 717-1946

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Fri Oct 22 09:48:16 2010
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:48:16 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 22 October 2010
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FYI,

Regards,

Denise

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

JISC and Taylor & Francis Publish First Open Access Issue of New Review
of Academic Librarianship;

Focus is "Dissemination Models in Scholarly Communication

http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/61395

Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for
Higher Quality Research

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