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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:21:20 +0200
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Hello Everyone and Welcome to my new Information Service "Copyright &
A2K Issues".

To give people time to subscribe to the new list, I will only start
sending out references from Monday 9th February 2009.

However, many have subscribed already so here are some conference alerts
and new books for interest.

Regards

Denise Nicholson

Conferences:

Intellectual Property Conferences 2009 :-

http://www.fordhamipinstitute.com/ip_conference/index1.html

http://www.ipmenu.com/conferences.asp

http://www.americanconference.com/Intellectual_Property.htm

http://www.ipr-forum.com/index.php

Syncom Business Intelligence Intellectual Property Conference

22-23 April 2009

Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa

For <http://www.syncombi.co.za> information, contact Precious Moyo at:
precious at syncombi.co.za <mailto:precious at syncombi.co.za>

A Race Against Time: preserving our Audiovisual Media

2-3 March 2009

Presented by Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts

Cosponsored & hosted by the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at
Austin, TX

http://www.ccaha.org/education/program-calendar

ProLISSA conference

4-6 March 2009

University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria.

http://www.unisa.ac.za/default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=21549

Asia-Pacific Conference on Library & Information

Education and Practice - Preparing Information Professionals for
International Collaboration

6-8 March 2009

University of Tsukuba, Japan

http://a-liep.kc.tsukuba.ac.jp/index.html

Gaelic Conference on Disability in Higher Education: The Road we have
travelled

19-20 March 2009

University of Johannesburg, School of Tourism & Hospitality,

Auckland Park, Johannesburg, South Africa

http://www.fotim.ac.za/fotim_conferences/disability2009/index.html

The Ohio ETD Association (OETDA) annual conference

2-3 April, 2009.

Hosted by the Ohio State University

Venue: Holiday Inn on the Lane, Columbus, Ohio.

http://www.oetda.org/meetings/

Second International Symposium on Academic Globalization:

AG 2009 July 10th - 13th, 2009

Orlando, Florida, USA

http://www.ICTconfer.org/ag

New Books:

"The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind" (James Boyle)

http://www.thepublicdomain.org/download/ (free to download)

"Global Information Inequalities: Bridging the information gap"

and "The Politics of Libraries and Librarianship: challenges and
realities"

(the foreword of this book is the keynote address given by Judge Albie
Sachs at the
IFLA Conference in Durban, South Africa, 2007)

(both part of the Chandos Information Professional Series and for
purchase

from Chandos Publishers, UK) (both contain chapters on intellectual
property issues)

"The Implementation Game: The TRIPS Agreement and the Global Politics

of Intellectual Property Reform in Developing Countries"

For purchase from Oxford University Press, UK -
http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199550616

Denise Rosemary 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

http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/Services/COPYRIGHT.htm

http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/ResearchResources/SubjectPortals/Copyright
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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Mon Feb 9 11:46:13 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:46:13 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2k Issues - 9 February 2009 (2)
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FYI,

Regards

Denise Nicholson

(For information about this Service, or to subscribe/unsubscribe,

please see: http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/copyrightanda2kinfo
<http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/copyrightanda2kinfo> )

Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication:-

Access to Knowledge Network

http://a2knetwork.org/

Herana Gateway to African Higher Education Research

http://www.herana-gateway.org/

Gandhi's papers now in the public domain

http://www.livemint.com/2008/12/29232525/Copyright-on-Gandhi8217s-wo.htm
l
<https://email.wits.ac.za/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.livemint.
com/2008/12/29232525/Copyright-on-Gandhi8217s-wo.html>

Scholarly Publishers recognize the usefulness of Institutional
Repositories

http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2009/01/scholarly-publishers-recogni
ze.html

The Value that Repositories Add

http://repositoryman.blogspot.com/2008/11/value-that-repositories-add.ht
ml
<https://email.wits.ac.za/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://repositoryman
.blogspot.com/2008/11/value-that-repositories-add.html>

List of Repositories
http://repositories.webometrics.info/top300_rep.asp

Open Repository & Bibliography

http://orbi.ulg.ac.be/

Open Journals Publishing

http://www.openjournals.net/

Director of Open Access Journals

http://www.doaj.org/

The Library Journal Academic newswire year in Review, the TOP Academic
Library Stories of 2008

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6626579.html?desc=topstory

MESUR for Measure: Metrics from Scholarly Usage of Resources-

http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/12/mesur-for-measure-metrics-from
.html
<https://email.wits.ac.za/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://scholarship20
.blogspot.com/2008/12/mesur-for-measure-metrics-from.html>

Share Online - Free books

http://tainguyenviet.blogspot.com/2008/12/free-books.html
<https://email.wits.ac.za/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://tainguyenviet
.blogspot.com/2008/12/free-books.html>

Kiwi Research Information Service

http://nzresearch.org.nz/
<https://email.wits.ac.za/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://nzresearch.or
g.nz/>

Scitable - free online educational resource for biology
students/educators

http://www.nature.com/scitable
<https://email.wits.ac.za/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.nature.co
m/scitable>

Crink - Self-publishing site

http://www.crink.co.za/

Denise Rosemary 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

http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/Services/COPYRIGHT.htm

http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/ResearchResources/SubjectPortals/Copyright
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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Tue Feb 10 10:44:00 2009
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:44:00 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 9 February 2009
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Hello and Welcome to my new Information Service "Copyright & A2K
Issues".

Regards

Denise Nicholson

(For information about this Service, or to subscribe/unsubscribe,

please see: http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/copyrightanda2kinfo
<http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/copyrightanda2kinfo> )

Plagiarism resources:-

www.plagiarism.org

http://www.web-miner.com/plagiarism

Intellectual Property:-

African Copyright & Access to Knowledge Project (ACA2K)

www.aca2k.org

Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research &
Development Act, No. 51 of 2008 (South Africa)

(This Act comes into effect on a date to be proclaimed by the President
in the Government Gazette).

http://www.info.gov.za/view/DownloadFileAction?id=94343
<https://email.wits.ac.za/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.info.gov.
za/view/DownloadFileAction?id=94343>

Privatising Public Knowledge

http://aliquidnovi.org/?p=172

Reaction to India's Bill against Open Access to Publicly Funded Research

http://openeducationnews.org/2009/01/18/reaction-to-indias-bill-against-
open-access-to-publicly-funded-researches/
<https://email.wits.ac.za/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://openeducation
news.org/2009/01/18/reaction-to-indias-bill-against-open-access-to-publi
cly-funded-researches/>

IP from Publicly Funded Research Should Benefit the Public, Experts Say

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1395

WIPO SCCR 17 final agreed upon text on persons with reading disabilities

http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2008/11/07/sccr17_disabled-text/#more-273

Live Posts of Conference on Patents, Copyrights & Knowledge Governance:
the next Four years

Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (Washington, DC, 12-13 January 2009

http://www.gavinbaker.com/2009/01/13/tacd-ip-conference-review/
<https://email.wits.ac.za/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.gavinbake
r.com/2009/01/13/tacd-ip-conference-review/>

Free Patents Online

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/

Traditional Knowledge: -

TK Bulletin

http://www.wiserearth.org/resource/view/9f80428f1bc25ef08c112f73763a29d0

Denise Rosemary 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

http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/Services/COPYRIGHT.htm

http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/ResearchResources/SubjectPortals/Copyright
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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Tue Feb 10 11:02:40 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:02:40 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 10 February 2009 (1)
Message-ID: <D1E4F8FEF09E574085C281B4EF6BA4F1D17C13@GAIA.ds.wits.ac.za>

FYI,

Regards

Denise Nicholson

(For information about this Service, or to subscribe/unsubscribe,

please see: http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/copyrightanda2kinfo
<http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/copyrightanda2kinfo> )

Intellectual Property:-

Copyright: Republication of "Nazi newspapers" - verboten?

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2009/02/republication-of-nazi-newspapers.ht
ml

Patents versus patenting: implications of intellectual property
protection for biological research

http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v27/n1/full/nbt0109-36.html

Taubman Of WIPO Picked To Head WTO IP Division

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/02/04/taubman-of-wipo-picked-to-head
-ip-division-at-wto/

The Last Defence Of The IP System: An Interview With Jamie Boyle

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/01/28/inside-views-the-last-defence-
of-the-ip-system-an-interview-with-jamie-boyle/

ACTA, an Example of Global Democracy Deficit -- the Secret Treaty
Negotiation
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/acta-an-example-of-global_b_16
3732.html>

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/acta-an-example-of-global_b_163
732.html

Details emerge of secret ACTA negotiation
<http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2009/02/03/details-emerge-of-secret-acta
/>

http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2009/02/03/details-emerge-of-secret-acta/

Conference alerts:-

African Digital Scholarship & Curation Conference

12-14 May 2009, CSIR Conference Centre, Pretoria, South Africa

http://www.library.up.ac.za/digi/programme.htm

Libraries Plus: Adding Value in the Cultural Community

17-20 August 2009, Istituto degli Innocenti, Florence, Italy

http://www.ifla2009satelliteflorence.it/meeting1/meeting1.html

13th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL2009)

September 27 - October 2 2009, Corfu, Greece

http://www.ecdl2009.eu/

ETD Conference

June 10 - 13, 2009

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.

http://www.library.pitt.edu/etd2009/about.html

Denise Rosemary 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

http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/Services/COPYRIGHT.htm

http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/ResearchResources/SubjectPortals/Copyright
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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Tue Feb 10 11:36:52 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:36:52 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 10 February 2009
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FYI,

Regards

Denise Nicholson

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please see: http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/copyrightanda2kinfo
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Apologies. One of the links on my earlier email (1) today had a glitch.

Here is the correct email:

Reaction to India's Bill against Open Access to Publicly Funded Research

http://openeducationnews.org/2009/01/18/reaction-to-indias-bill-against-
open-access-to-publicly-funded-researches/

Plagiarism:-

Why Students Plagiarize

http://library.albany.edu/usered/plagiarism/page3.html

http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/plagiarism/why/index.cfm

http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/teaching/plagiarism/why.cfm

http://wwwlb.aub.edu.lb/~eplagio/Turnitin/printable%20handouts/WhyStuPla
giarize.pdf

http://tlt.its.psu.edu/plagiarism/facguide/causes

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:-

List of Legal Scholarly Institutional Repositories.

http://home.comcast.net/~richards1000/LegalInformationSystemsBibliograph
y.htm#INSTITUTIONALREPOSITORIES

Why some forms of OA have grown faster than others in legal scholarship
<http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/02/why-some-forms-of-oa-have-gr
own-faster.html>

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/02/why-some-forms-of-oa-have-gro
wn-faster.html

Legal Scholarship, Electronic Publishing, and Open Access:

Transformation or Steadfast Stagnation?*

http://www.aallnet.org/products/pub_llj_v101n01/2009-02.pdf

Open Access legal resources

http://www.saflii.org/

Recent news on Open Access to Public Sector Information

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/02/recent-news-on-oa-to-psi.html

Economic Implications of Alternative Scholarly Publishing Models:
Exploring the costs and benefits

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/economicpublishingmodels
finalreport.aspx

DRIVER Guidelines for Repository Managers

http://www.driver-support.eu/managers.html

ARL Developing a Scholarly Communication Program in your Library

http://www.arl.org/sc/institute/fair/scprog/index.shtml

The Horizon Report

http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2009/

World Newspapers Archive Update

http://www.crl.edu/focus/0809WinWNAUpdate.asp?issID=47

The Future of Newspapers: a Conversation

http://www.crl.edu/focus/0809WinOnTheRecord.asp?issID=47

Free Software PDF Reader

http://pdfreaders.org

Digital Britain: the Interim Report

http://www.culture.gov.uk/images/publications/S1_digital_britain_interim
reportjan09.pdf

Denise Rosemary 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

http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/Services/COPYRIGHT.htm

http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/ResearchResources/SubjectPortals/Copyright
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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Thu Feb 12 10:00:42 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:00:42 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 12 February 2009
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FYI,

Regards

Denise Nicholson

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please see: http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/copyrightanda2kinfo <http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/copyrightanda2kinfo> )

Intellectual Property:-

South Centre : Intellectual Property Quarterly Update

http://www.southcentre.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&se...

Afro-IP - African IP law, practice and policies

http://afro-ip.blogspot.com/

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:-

Open Access Journal - First Monday

http://firstmonday.org/issue/current

Open Journals - Open access links

http://openjournals.net/index.php?option=com_weblinks&catid=26&Itemid=58

Coyright & A2K Information Service launched!

http://kim.wits.ac.za/index.php?module=news&action=viewstory&id=gen16Srv...

IFLA Science & Technology Newsletter

http://www.ifla.org/VII/s7/news/s7-newsletter-Jan09.pdf

Issues and challenges to the development of open

access institutional repositories in academic and

research institutions in Nigeria

http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca/dspace/bitstream/123456789/36986/1/127792.pdf <http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca/dspace/bitstream/123456789/36986/1/127792.pdf>

Ranking Web of World Repositories

http://repositories.webometrics.info/index.html

Collector donates 150,000 maps to Stanford

http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=11161

http://www.davidrumsey.com/index4.html

The Legal Education Commons offers Open Access to 700,000 Federal Court Decisions

http://openeducationnews.org/2009/01/28/the-legal-education-commons-offe...

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography - 2008 Annual edition

http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/sepb2008.pdf

Digitization:-

CHE: Bringing Tenure Into The Digital Age: Q&A With Christine L. Borgman

http://ahabloging.com/2009/02/che-bringing-tenure-into-the-digital-age-q...

Digital Curation Center : Interoperability

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resource/briefing-papers/interoperability