Intellectual Property:

Openness is a Human Rights Issue: Copyright Amendment Bill and Access to Educational Materials in South Africa

https://bit.ly/2TN5AYK

The Domestic Effect of South Africa's Treaty Obligations: The Right to Education and the Copyright Amendment Bill

https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/research/61/

Bridging the Differences between Copyright's Legal Traditions – The Emerging EC Fair Use Doctrine

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1723902

Copyright & Related Resources

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

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Open Access Resources

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

 

COAR Community Framework for Good Practices in Repositories

https://www.coar-repositories.org/coar-community-framework-for-good-practices-in-repositories/

AfricArXiv – a preprint repository for African Research

https://info.africarxiv.org/

Free reusable content with Creative Commons licences

https://search.creativecommons.org/

Do open access journal articles experience a citation advantage? … an analysis by WoS subject areas

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-020-03734-9

Want a better h-index? – All you need to know about copyright and open access

https://www.sciencedirect.com/sdfe/reader/pii/S1877056820302735/pdf

Preprints in Medicine: Useful or Harmful?

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2020.579100/full

Why publish books open access?

https://crookedtimber.org/2020/10/23/why-publish-books-open-access/

The state of Altmetrics – 10th anniversary celebration

https://www.altmetric.com/about-altmetrics/the-state-of-altmetrics/

Campaign to investigate the Academic eBook Market

https://academicebookinvestigation.org/

 

Open Science:

Open Science- Who is left behind?

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2020/10/23/open-science-who-is-left-behind/

Open Science (UNESCO)
https://en.unesco.org/science-sustainable-future/open-science

Open data sharing accelerates COVID-19 research

https://www.miragenews.com/open-data-sharing-accelerates-covid-19-research/

New SPARC Europe report out: Scoping the Open Science Infrastructure Landscape in Europe

https://bit.ly/3kV2caa

 

Predatory Publishing/Unethical Practices

Predatory Publishing Practices

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

Flaky Journals

http://flakyj.blogspot.com/2019/04/ocimum-scientific-publishers-osp-is.html

Factors to consider when dealing with conspiracy theories

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20201020153545783

5 Ways COVID-19 is Changing Academic Plagiarism

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2020/10/26/5-ways-covid-19-is-changing-academic-plagiarism/