Intellectual Property:

Resources on Fair Use and Fair Dealing

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Copyright_and_Related_Issues/fairuse_fairdealing

Copyright for Australia that makes sense. That’s fair.

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/22/australia-fair-use/

Report:  “Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen”

http://www.infodocket.com/2017/05/22/report-elsevier-wants-15-million-piracy-damages-from-sci-hub-and-libgen/

Copyright compliance and infringement in ResearchGate full-text journal articles

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-017-2291-4

Colombian Court Acquits Diego Gómez of Criminal Charges for Sharing a Research Paper Online

https://creativecommons.org/2017/05/24/colombian-court-acquits-diego-gomez-criminal-charges-sharing-research-paper-online/

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Untangling Academic Publishing: A history of the relationship between commercial interests, academic prestige and the circulation of research

file:///C:/Users/00658018.DS/Downloads/UntanglingAcPub.pdf

Latin-American repositories have little visibility in Google Scholar

http://blog.scielo.org/en/2014/09/18/latin-american-repositories-have-little-visibility-in-google-scholar/#.WSvVD5KGPIU

Pros and Cons of Google Scholar

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/14684520510598066

5 services to help researchers find free full text instantly & a quick assessment of effectiveness

http://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.co.za/2017/03/5-services-to-help-researchers-find.html

The Boundless Treasures of The Met: 375,000 public domain images now available through Open Access!

https://artstor.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/the-boundless-treasures-of-the-met/

Transforming Libraries and Archives through Crowdsourcing

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may17/vanhyning/05vanhyning.html

Scaling Up Perma.cc: Ensuring the Integrity of the Digital Scholarly Record

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may17/dulin/05dulin.html

Digital Library Perspectives

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/toc/dlp/33/2

Librarians’ messages to publishers: time to listen?

https://www.researchinformation.info/news/analysis-opinion/librarians%E2%80%99-messages-publishers-time-listen

Sloppy science creates worthless cures and wastes billions, says author

http://bit.ly/2reICg7

OPENAPC  - Tool to check APC charges

https://treemaps.intact-project.org/apcdata/openapc/#publisher/

Steady Growth of Articles in Fully OA Journals Using a CC-BY License

https://oaspa.org/steady-growth-fully-oa-journals-ccby-license/

Backfilling a repository using the DOAJ API

http://strathoa.tumblr.com/post/161095443170/backfilling-a-repository-using-the-doaj-api

Celebrating 20 Years – Hindawi OA Publishers

https://about.hindawi.com/opinion/celebrating-20-years/

Europeana Photography unlocks a vast archive of historical photography –

http://pro.europeana.eu/blogpost/europeana-photography-unlocks-a-vast-archive-of-historical-photography

 

Conference Alerts:

Open Repositories 2017 Conference

26 June - 30 June – Brisbane, Australia

https://or2017.net/

 

9th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP)

20-21 September 2017 – Lisbon, Portugal

https://oaspa.org/conference/