Copyright & A2K Issues - 21 August 2018

21 August 2018 · Denise Nicholson

This is a free online international Information Service covering various topics, including copyright, plagiarism and other IP matters, Open Access, open publishing, open learning resources, institutional repositories, scholarly communication, digitization and library matters, mobile technologies, issues affecting access to knowledge (A2K), particularly in developing countries; WTO and WIPO treaties and matters; Free Trade Agreements and TRIPS Plus; useful websites, conference alerts, etc. Archives are available at: http://www.africanlii.org/content/copyright-a2k-information . If you would like to subscribe to, or unsubscribe from, this newsletter, please do so at: http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/copyrightanda2kinfo or email Denise.Nicholson@wits.ac.za

Intellectual Property:

South Africa: Copyright Amendment Bill Draft No. 2, 2018 – Submissions

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Copyright_and_Related_Issues/SA_Copyright_Amendment_Bill_2018

Irony Alert: Disney (Yes, DISNEY!) Whines About 'Overzealous Copyright Holders'

https://bit.ly/2w299in

Disney Gets Early Loss In Trademark, Copyright Suit Against Unlicensed Birthday Party Characters

https://bit.ly/2MhUdHh

Australia, Copyright, European Union, Legislative process - Future EU-Australia FTA and copyright: what could we expect in the IP chapter?

http://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2018/08/02/future-eu-australia-fta-copyright-expect-ip-chapter/

Collective Licensing:

IFLA Background Paper On Extended Collective Licensing

https://www.ifla.org/files/assets/clm/ecl_background_paper.pdf

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Same Question, Different World: Replicating an Open Access Research Impact Study

https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/16949/18655

Discussion paper: Help! I’m an author – get me out of here

https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:68a4577d-09d4-444a-b3d0-ec6130cf806d

How long would it take to buy Elsevier instead of APCs or subscriptions?

https://svpow.com/2018/08/15/__trashed/

As Academic Publishers Fight And Subvert Open Access, Preprints Offer An Alternative Approach For Sharing Knowledge Widely

https://bit.ly/2MsYVSi

Blockchain: the answer to scientific publishing’s problems

https://edtechnology.co.uk/Article/blockchain-the-answer-to-scientific-publishings-problems

Predatory Publishing Practices:

Caveat Emptor: Predatory Publishers, Rogue Journals, and the Potential Corruption of Addiction Science

https://www.jsad.com/doi/abs/10.15288/jsad.2018.79.509

Resources on Predatory Publishing Practices

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/ScholarlyCommunication/PredatoryPublishing

Open Research/Open Science:

Resources to help researchers practice good open science

https://leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2018/08/15/resources-to-help-researchers-practice-good-open-science/

What is Open Research?
https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/learning/best-practice-in-open-research/#/id/5abe17ffdd1827131b90e618

Open Research Data in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Bibliometric Study Using the Data Citation Index

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12109-016-9463-6

Guest Post: Challenges for Academics in the Global South — Resource Constraints, Institutional Issues, and Infrastructural Problems

https://bit.ly/2Mpa8TT

Best Practice in Open Research

https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/learning/best-practice-in-open-research/#/id/5abe17ffdd1827131b90e618

Access for Persons with Disabilities – Marrakesh Treaty:

On Track or Off the Rails? IFLA publishes an update current status of transposition of the Marrakesh Directive in Europe

https://www.ifla.org/node/58730?og=29

Towards Ratification Of The Marrakesh Treaty In The European Union Update

https://www.ifla.org/files/assets/clm/update_marrakesh_eu_june_2018.pdf

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