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:
Reimagining the academic library: What to do next. Review article
https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2019.ene.04
Israel: Copyright Law (Amendment No. 5), 2019
http://www.mondaq.com/x/770562/Copyright/Copyright+Law+Amendment+No+5+2019
Indian academics lead the world in publishing in fake journals – tarring the whole education sector
South Africa: High Online Counterfeit Goods Risk, Says Survey
http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?article_id=773528&email_access=on
The elusive gold mine? The finer details of Creative Commons licences – and why they really matter
https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.448/
Japan amends its copyright to meet future demands in AI and Big Data
http://eare.eu/japan-amends-tdm-exception-copyright/
Google forced to remove search results in EU 'right to be forgotten' case
https://www.cnet.com/news/google-reportedly-forced-to-remove-links-in-right-to-be-forgotten-case/
Open Science/Open Data:
Module 5 of the Open Science MOOC: An introduction to Open Research Software and Open Source
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fwGliIyAZs
AmeliCA vs Plan S: Same target, two different strategies to achieve Open Access
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kXe1UO4beE
ECSarXiv - a free preprint service for electrochemistry and solid state science and technology
Scientific societies worry Plan S will make them shutter journals, slash services
Recommendations on Open Science and Innovation
https://era.gv.at/object/document/4508
A Vision for Open Science
https://zenodo.org/record/1491303#.XEhAZFwzb4Z
Research data management (RDM) open training materials
https://zenodo.org/communities/dcc-rdm-training-materials/search?page=1&size=20
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:
Push for Open Access Publishing Might Leave Elsevier in the Dust
Open Access Resources
https://libguides.wits.ac.za/openaccess_a2k_scholarly_communication
Open Digital Repositories
https://libguides.wits.ac.za/c.php?g=145291&p=953983
Voices from the South: Digital Arts and Humanities
https://books.aosis.co.za/index.php/ob/catalog/book/79
European Data Portal
https://www.europeandataportal.eu/elearning/en/#/id/co-01
Scholarly Communication/Publishing Resources
https://libguides.wits.ac.za/ScholarlyCommunication
Scholarly Research Resources
https://libguides.wits.ac.za/Scholarly_Research_Resources
Research Methodologies
https://libguides.wits.ac.za/c.php?g=145381&p=953599
Text and Data Mining
https://reform.communia-association.org/issue/text-and-data-mining/
Celebrating 30,000 Open Access Articles … PARs, RAPs, and Exploring Implications
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/01/22/celebrating-30000-open-access-articles/
Done DEAL: All German research articles in Wiley journals to be published open access under new transformative agreement
Academic-Led Journal Launch Checklist
https://s3.amazonaws.com/marketing.scholasticahq.com/Academic-Led+Journal+Launch+Checklist.pdf
The democratization of scientific publishing
https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-019-1249-1
Predatory Publishers:
Predatory publications in evidence syntheses
http://jmla.mlanet.org/ojs/jmla/article/view/491/767
Resources on Predatory Publishing Practices
https://libguides.wits.ac.za/openaccess_a2k_scholarly_communication/Predatory_Publishers