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 Copyright Amendment Bill - Resources on the CAB debate: all the links you need! (with comments at end)
http://afro-ip.blogspot.com/2019/08/resources-on-cab-debate-all-links-you.html
Resources on the Bill, Fair Use, etc.
https://libguides.wits.ac.za/Copyright_and_Related_Issues
Common Examples of Fair Use, and Myths about Fair Use
https://ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/choosingsources/chapter/common-examples-of-fair-use/
Code of Best Practices For Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries (ARL)
https://www.arl.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/code-of-best-practices-fair-use.pdf
The 5th Global Congress on IP & the Public Interest (2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbcxQ4V3cK0&feature=youtu.be
Open Access, Scholarly Communication & A2K Issues:
Democratising Knowledge: a report on the scholarly publisher, Elsevier
Where is the Publication Puck Going? Making Research Available “Upstream” of Publication
Open Access for Monographs: Small Steps along a difficult Path
https://www.zbw-mediatalk.eu/2019/08/open-access-for-monographs-small-steps-along-a-difficult-path/
Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02479-7
The science that’s never been cited
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-08404-0
Major Distraction – School Dumps iPads, Returns to Paper Textbooks
More than 700 German Research Institutions Strike Open Access Deal with Springer/Nature
Guest Post — The Future of FAIR, as Told by the Past
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/08/12/guest-post-the-future-of-fair-as-told-by-the-past/
Conference Alerts:
SPARC Open Access 2019
2-6 December 2019 – Cape Town, South Africa
http://www.sparcafricasymp.uct.ac.za/
The 12th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2020)
26-30 May 2020 - Barcelona, Spain