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 only (N.B. PLEASE DO NOT SEND TO WHOLE MAILING LIST)
Intellectual Property:
SA parliament's trade, industry committee adopts reports Copyright, Performers bills
Tearing down myths around the South African Copyright Amendment Bill
https://www.ifla.org/node/91689
SANEF Celebrates the Inclusion of The “Fair Use” Principle in the SA Copyright Amendment Bill
http://infojustice.org/archives/40581
US delegation circulates a new paper on the WIPO Broadcast treaty
https://www.keionline.org/29215
Cautionary Tales About Collective Rights Organizations, Part 2
http://infojustice.org/archives/39886
A Treaty on Copyright Exceptions and Limitations for Educational and Research Activities (Tera)
http://infojustice.org/archives/40626
Authors Alliance’s Statement at WIPO SCCR 36 (2018) on limitations and exceptions
https://www.authorsalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180530_WIPO_statement.pdf
Upload Filters and Art. 13 : The Latest EU Proposals
https://torrentfreak.com/upload-filters-article-13-the-latest-eu-proposals-181120/
Fake Research/Predatory Publishing Practices:
How AI Is Tackling Fake Academic Research That Is Plaguing Scientific Community
The business of fake science
https://mg.co.za/article/2018-11-16-00-the-business-of-fake-science
Wellcome Trust’s Open access policy 2020 – Frequently Asked Questions
https://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wellcome-open-access-policy-2020-faq.pdf
Download Famous Art in High Resolution
https://lifehacker.com/download-famous-art-in-high-resolution-1830393319
Stop Limiting your Audience: The Benefits and Challenges of Open Access Publishing
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1057&context=tjufacultydays
The Open-Access System of Journals and Its Use by Russian Scientists According to the Statistics of Web of Science (2008–2017)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3103/S0147688218030097
Open access institutional repositories in universities in East Africa
https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/ILS-07-2018-0066
Are mega-journals a publication outlet for lower quality research? A bibliometric analysis of Spanish authors in PLOS ONE
https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/OIR-04-2018-0136
The New Dimensions in Scholcomm: How a Global Scholarly Community Collaboration Created the World’s Largest Linked Research Knowledge System
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0361526X.2019.1540259
The OA Interviews: Arul George Scaria
https://poynder.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-oa-interviews-arul-george-scaria.html
How to add a Creative Commons Licence to your publications
https://libguides.wits.ac.za/Copyright_and_Related_Issues/CreativeCommons
New release of COCI: 450M DOI-to-DOI citation links now available
https://opencitations.wordpress.com/2018/11/19/coci-nov-2018-release/
Open Science/Open Research:
Jon Tennant: Open Science is just science done right
https://www.tidningencurie.se/podcasts/jon-tennant-open-science-is-just-science-done-right/
ARL, Wikimedia, and Linked Open Data: Draft White Paper Open for Comments through November 30
Access and Disabilities:
Working with deaf patrons
http://libguides.gallaudet.edu/c.php?g=773982
SA is failing deaf and hard-of-hearing learners: Can a bilingual model of education be the solution to acquiring literacy?
Resources for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons
https://libguides.wits.ac.za/deaf_and_hardofhearing
Countries that have ratified the Marrakesh Treaty to date
http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ShowResults.jsp?treaty_id=843