Intellectual Property:

Copyright Resources
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Copyright_and_Related_Issues

White Paper on Remixes, First Sale, and  Statutory Damages (USA)

http://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/copyrightwhitepaper.pdf

YouTube Wins Another Round In German Copyright Tussle

http://fortune.com/2016/01/28/youtube-german-copyright-tussle/

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

What is Open Access? An Overview (P. Suber)

http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

Open Access Journals

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/openaccess_a2k_scholarly_communication/OA_Journals

Creating an Infrastructure for Open Access

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library-babel-fish/creating-infrastructure-open-access

Hunters and hunted

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/letters/hunters-and-hunted

Combined open access and subscription agreement between Wiley and Dutch universities

http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/view.asp?f=h&m=il88zrvewq44876ttute&u=19539989

Briefing Paper : Open Access mandate support

http://www.pasteur4oa.eu/sites/pasteur4oa/files/resource/BP_Open%20Access%20Mandate%20Support.pdf

How Open is it?

http://blogs.plos.org/plospodcasts/2016/02/01/how-open-is-it-an-interview-with-greg-tananbaum/

Open Access Spectrum Evaluation Toll

http://oaspectrum.org

10 years of Open Access at the Wellcome Trust in 10 numbers

http://blog.wellcome.ac.uk/2015/10/22/10-years-of-open-access-at-the-wellcome-trust-in-10-numbers/

Bill &  Melinda Gates Foundaton Open Access Policy

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/General-Information/Open-Access-Policy

The Water Next Time: Professor Who Helped Expose Crisis in Flint Says Public Science Is Broken

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Water-Next-Time-Professor/235136

Research Identifier – ORCID

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Scholarly_Research_Resources/ORCID

Stand with Diego. Support Open Access

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/stand-diego-support-open-access

The Evolution of Impact Indicators (request free ebook)

http://scholasticahq.com/altmetrics-the-evolution-of-impact-indicators

Journals Declaring Independence from Corporate Publishers: Past and future

http://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/137552235453/journals-declaring-independence-from-corporate

Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) Releases “Strategy and Workplan 2016-2018″ Document

http://www.infodocket.com/2015/11/11/confederation-of-open-access-repositories-coar-releases-strategy-and-workplan-2016-2018-document/

Amazonopoly!

http://www.districtdispatch.org/2016/01/amazonopoly/

 

Open Monographs and Open Textbooks:

New OER Based Learning Platform Provides Alternative to Traditional Textbooks

https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/01/26/new-oer-based-learning-platform-provides-alternative-to-traditional-textbooks.aspx?m=1

Open Textbook Network

https://research.cehd.umn.edu/otn/

JISC Report on open access monograph publishing

http://scholarlycommunications.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2016/01/28/oapenukreport/

Prof Finds Ways to Keep Textbook costs down

http://www.pantagraph.com/news/local/prof-finds-ways-to-keep-textbook-costs-down/article_b02dbde6-b056-5acc-904c-9ed444e30919.html

 

Library Matters:

College and Research Libraries Newsletter (Table of Contents – v. 77(2), February 2016)

http://crln.acrl.org/content/77/2

Journal of Academic Librarianship (OA)

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00991333/open-access

 

Public Lending Rights:

The IFLA Position on Public Lending Right (2016)

http://www.ifla.org/node/761

 

Data and Data Management:

Data-driven decisions

http://crln.acrl.org/content/77/2/86.full.pdf+html

Data Management Resources

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/digitisation_preservation_and_digitalcuration/DataManagementResources

 

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Special Needs and Disability Compliance in Education

3-4 March 2016 – Birchwood Hotel, Boksburg, South Africa

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