Intellectual Property:
Why fair use and quotation provisions in SA Copyright Amendment Bill 2017 need to be Open
You still have time to comment on this to the PC on Trade and Industry – email ahermans@parliament.gov.za before 30 JUNE 2017
Academics ‘should not sign over research copyright to publishers’ (free registration to read)
Researchers protest publisher’s orders to remove papers from their websites
http://retractionwatch.com/2017/06/14/researchers-protest-publishers-orders-remove-papers-websites/
Is the APA trying to take your science down?
https://alexholcombe.wordpress.com/2017/06/15/is-the-apa-trying-to-take-your-science-down/
IP and Traditional Knowledge:
A U.N. Effort to Make Cultural Appropriation Illegal
http://reason.com/blog/2017/06/14/a-un-effort-to-make-cultural-appropriati
Indigenous Knowledge Systems – the Missing Link
http://www.herald.co.zw/indigenous-knowledge-systems-the-missing-link/
Traditional Knowledge, IP and A2K resources
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/TraditionalKnowledge
Preserving Cultural Heritage:
Endangered Heritage Emergency Evacuation of Heritage Collections
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002466/246684e.pdf
Legal Deposit in South Africa
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/LegalDeposit
Predatory Publishing Practices:
Thirteen ways to spot a ‘predatory journal’ (and why we shouldn’t call them that) (free subscription to read)
Journals blacklist creator blames university for website closure
Journalism and Ethics:
Ethics in Journalism
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/journalism_and_media-studies/Ethics
Ethical journalism: What to do, and not to do, with leaked
Resources on Journalism and Media Studies