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:
dti: The National Assembly passed the Copyright Amendment Bill, the Performers’ Protection Amendment Bill and the Gambling Amendment Bill
Copyright Amendment Bill passed (South Africa)
http://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/copyright-amendment-bill-passed/
SA Copyright Amendment Bill - resources
What is Fair Use and What are its Benefits?
https://libguides.wits.ac.za/Copyright_and_Related_Issues/fairuse_fairdealing
Defending Fair Use In South Africa
http://www.ip-watch.org/2018/12/04/defending-fair-use-south-africa/
Promoting Education Rights In South African Copyright Reform
Towards WIPO Regional Seminars On Copyright Exceptions: Looking Out For Users
Confused about copyright? Assessing Researchers’ Comprehension of Copyright Transfer Agreements
https://jlsc-pub.org/articles/abstract/10.7710/2162-3309.2253/
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:
Researchers sign petition backing plans to end paywalls
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07632-2
China backs bold plan to tear down journal paywalls
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07659-5
Aligning strategies to enable Open Access
https://www.mpg.de/12553198/14th-berlin-open-access-conference/
Altruism or Self-Interest? Exploring the Motivations of Open Access Authors
https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/17396
Open Science:
Launch of the future African Open Science Platform during SFSA2018, 12-14 Dec. 2018
http://africanopenscience.org.za/?p=1071
How to find Open Research Data
European Science Cloud is online: Secure virtual environment for research data
Open Science in Africa – Challenges, Opportunities and Perspectives
https://osf.io/preprints/africarxiv/m5kuc/
Open Synthesis: on the need for evidence synthesis to embrace Open Science
https://environmentalevidencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13750-018-0140-4
European funders detail their open-access plan
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6418/983/
Supporting the Proliferation of Data-Sharing Scholars in the Research Ecosystem
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol7/iss2/6/
Open Educational Resources:
OER: A Field Guide for Academic Librarians
https://commons.pacificu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=pup
OERs