Intellectual Property:
SA Copyright Amendment Bill - Resources on the CAB debate: all the links you need! (with comments at end)
http://afro-ip.blogspot.com/2019/08/resources-on-cab-debate-all-links-you.html
Resources on the Bill, Fair Use, etc.
https://libguides.wits.ac.za/Copyright_and_Related_Issues
Common Examples of Fair Use, and Myths about Fair Use
https://ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/choosingsources/chapter/common-examples-of-fair-use/
Code of Best Practices For Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries (ARL)
https://www.arl.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/code-of-best-practices-fair-use.pdf
The 5th Global Congress on IP & the Public Interest (2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbcxQ4V3cK0&feature=youtu.be
Open Access, Scholarly Communication & A2K Issues:
Democratising Knowledge: a report on the scholarly publisher, Elsevier
Where is the Publication Puck Going? Making Research Available “Upstream” of Publication
Open Access for Monographs: Small Steps along a difficult Path
https://www.zbw-mediatalk.eu/2019/08/open-access-for-monographs-small-steps-along-a-difficult-path/
Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02479-7
The science that’s never been cited
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-08404-0
Major Distraction – School Dumps iPads, Returns to Paper Textbooks
More than 700 German Research Institutions Strike Open Access Deal with Springer/Nature
Guest Post — The Future of FAIR, as Told by the Past
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/08/12/guest-post-the-future-of-fair-as-told-by-the-past/
Conference Alerts:
SPARC Open Access 2019
2-6 December 2019 – Cape Town, South Africa
http://www.sparcafricasymp.uct.ac.za/
The 12th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2020)
26-30 May 2020 - Barcelona, Spain