Intellectual Property:

South African Copyright Legislation Under the Spotlight 

https://legal.sabinet.co.za/articles/copyright-legislation-under-the-spotlight/

 

Traditional Knowledge:

Protection, Promotion, Development and Management of Indigenous Knowledge Act, No. 6 of 2019 (South Africa)

https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/201908/4264719-8act6of2019protectpromodevelopmanagementindigenousknowledgeact.pdf

 

Marrakesh Treaty for the Visually Impaired

More Countries Join Marrakesh: Update of the Marrakesh Monitoring Report

https://www.ifla.org/node/92418

Resources on the Marrakesh Treaty

https://libguides.wits.ac.za/Resources_for_Blind_and_Visually-Impaired/Marrakesh

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

SpringerOpen pricing trends 2018 – 2019

https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2019/08/13/springeropen-pricing-trends-2018-2019/

Top University Of California Scientists Tell Elsevier They'll No Longer Work On Elsevier Journals

https://bit.ly/31F0mjH

Millions of Books Are Secretly in the Public Domain. You Can Download Them Free

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kz4e3e/millions-of-books-are-secretly-in-the-public-domain-you-can-download-them-free

Open Access and the Changing Landscape for Library Acquisitions — Interview with Gregory T. Eow

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00987913.2019.1645585

The Open Access Interviews: Edith Hall

https://poynder.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-open-access-interviews-edith-hall.html

IReL principles for Open Access publisher agreements from 2020

https://irel.ie/irel-principles-for-open-access-publisher-agreements-from-2020/

Quality Criteria in Scholarship and Science: Proposing a Visualization of Their Interactions

https://bit.ly/2KID4Tu

Elsevier: "It's illegal to Sci-Hub." Also Elsevier: "We link to Sci-Hub all the time."

https://boingboing.net/2019/08/03/zero-value-added.html

Council of Europe: Draft Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the human rights impacts of algorithmic systems

https://rm.coe.int/draft-recommendation-of-the-committee-of-ministers-to-states-on-the-hu/168095eecf

Ask The Chefs: The Future Form Of Scholarly Communication

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/01/24/ask-chefs-future-form-scholarly-communication/

Emerald Publishing joins Web of Science Group Initiative to Open Up Peer Review

https://prn.to/2Z3g3iZ

Open science: What is the fuss all about?

https://www.psychology.org.au/for-members/publications/inpsych/2019/august/Open-science-What-is-the-fuss-all-about

 

OER and Blended Learning

Understanding the Impact of OER: Achievements and Challenges (OER Africa)(2019)

https://www.saide.org.za/documents/Understanding_the_impact_of_OER_2019-1.pdf

5 Methods For Achieving A Blended Learning Approach Into Your Classroom

https://edtechreview.in/research/3587-5-methods-for-achieving-a-blended-learning-approach-into-your-classroom

OER Resources

https://libguides.wits.ac.za/Open_Educational_Resources

 

Predatory Publishing Practices:

Predatory Open Access Journals: Risks of Association

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333842612_Predatory_Open_Access_Journals_Risks_of_Association

On the limitations of recent lawsuits against Sci‐Hub, OMICS, ResearchGate, and Georgia State University

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/leap.1254

OMICS, Publisher of Fake Journals, Makes Cosmetic Changes to Evade Detection

https://thewire.in/the-sciences/omics-publisher-of-fake-journals-makes-cosmetic-changes-to-evade-detection

Resources on Predatory Publishing

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

Predatory Publishing Practices: Is There Life After Beall’s List?

https://www.libres-ejournal.info/2565/