INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:

WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights (SCCR) – 36th Session, Geneva 28 May to 1 June 2018

Draft Action Plans on Limitations and Exceptions through SCCR/39 (2nd meeting in 2019)

http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/details.jsp?meeting_id=46436

Who owns the copyright in scans of public domain works?

http://www.likelihoodofconfusion.com/who-owns-the-copyright-scans-public-domain-works/

Issue Brief The General Data Protection Regulation: What Does It Mean for Libraries Worldwide?

http://www.arl.org/storage/documents/IssueBrief_GDPR_May2018.pdf

How much do we know about notice-and-takedown? New study tracks YouTube removals

http://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2018/06/12/much-know-notice-takedown-new-study-tracks-youtube-removals/

Google Images’ ‘View Image’ Button and Copyright Infringement

https://spicyip.com/2018/06/25602.html

 

OPEN ACCESS, A2K & SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION:

Scientific journals are (still) getting (more) expensive (than ever)

https://social.shorthand.com/stevecarufel_/j2bOadiRji/scientific-journals-are-still-getting-more-expensive-than-ever

Open access megajournals: The publisher perspective (Part 1: Motivations)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/leap.1117

Open access megajournals: The publisher perspective (Part 2: Operational realities)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/leap.1118

Open textbook “Fundamentals of Business” surpasses 100,000 downloads

https://vtnews.vt.edu/content/vtnews_vt_edu/en/articles/2018/05/univlib-fundofbusiness.html

The science that’s never been cited

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-08404-0

Has Google Become a Journal Publisher?

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/06/11/has-google-become-a-journal-publisher/?informz=1

 

PREDATORY PUBLISHING/BOGUS CONFERENCES:

Avoid Fake Conferences

https://libguides.wits.ac.za/openaccess_a2k_scholarly_communication/fakeconferences

What are ‘predatory’ conferences and how can I avoid them?

http://www.authoraid.info/en/news/details/1156/

Think Check Submit - The checklist that helps you choose a reliable journal

https://www.editage.com/insights/think-check-submit-the-checklist-that-helps-you-choose-a-reliable-journal

UGC removes 4,305 journals from White list, including the Lancet Public Health

https://journosdiary.com/2018/05/04/ugc-4305-white-list-predatory-journal/

Journal Evaluation Tool

http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1041&context=librarian_pubs

 

OPEN SCIENCE/OPEN DATA:

Open Science Goes Mainstream, As Acquisitions of Open Source Platforms Based on Open Access and Collaboration Make Headlines

https://openscience.com/open-science-goes-mainstream-as-acquisitions-of-open-source-platforms-based-on-open-access-and-collaboration-make-headlines/

Protecting data and opening data

https://www.europeandataportal.eu/pl/highlights/protecting-data-and-opening-data

 

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY / PLAGIARISM:

Academic Integrity / Ethics

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/plagiarism_citation_and_referencing/Ethics

Plagiarism, Citation and Referencing Styles

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/plagiarism_citation_and_referencing

 

CONFERENCE ALERTS:

Digital Tools & Uses Congress

3 - 5 October 2018 – Paris, France

http://www.digitaluses-congress.univ-paris8.fr/#&panel1-2

 

19th LIASA Annual Conference

8-12 October 2018 - Cape Town, South Africa

http://www.liasaconference.co.za/