Copyright & A2K Issues - 1 September 2011

1 September 2011 · Denise Nicholson

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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 12:38:04 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 1 September 2011
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Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication

Open Access to Knowledge

http://wwww.climatechoices.org.uk/open-access-to-knowledge-1

Creative Commons : a User's Guide

http://www.aliprandi.org/cc-user-guide/aliprandi_cc_user_2.pdf

Open Access - Summer's Featured Comments

http://intechweb.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/open-access-summers-featured-c
omments/

Breaking News - Open Access Wave Sweeps World (Vimeo)

http://vimeo.com/24171277

Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011

http://digital-scholarship.org/iretd/iretd2011.htm

Institutional Repositories and Digital Preservation: Assessing Current
Practices at Research Libraries

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may11/yuanli/05yuanli.html

The Use of Institutional Repositories: The Ohio State University
Experience

http://crl.acrl.org/content/72/3/253.full.pdf+html

Using Journal Citation Reports and SHERPA RoMEO to Facilitate
Conversations on Institutional Repositories

http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/xmlui/handle/1957/11003

Plagiarism

Self-Plagiarism White Paper

http://www.ithenticate.com/self-plagiarism-free-white-paper/

Mobile technologies and Social Networks

Avoiding Social Networking Burnout

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/184930/avoiding-social-networking-bu
rnout.html

Conference alerts:

24th ICDE World Conference on Open & Distance Learning

2-5 October 2011 - Universitas Terbuka in Indonesia

http://www.ut.ac.id/icde2011/home/about-the-conference/

Open Educational Resources (OER) and the opportunities for expanding
Open Distance learning

18-19 October 2011 - Windhoek, Namibia.

Contact email: hnnielsen at unam.na

The 2nd International Conference on African Digital Libraries and
Archives (ICADLA-2)

14-18 November 2011 - University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg,
South Africa

http://www.wits.ac.za/newsroom/conferences/13135/home.html

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Thu Sep 1 12:41:35 2011
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 12:41:35 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 31 August 2011
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Intellectual Property

UK copyright modernisation effort picks up steam

http://bit.ly/nbq4ne

http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/08/copyright-forever-less-
one-day.html

The Ethics of Open Access and Copyright Infringement

http://repository.cmu.edu/lib_science/78/

Asking for Permission: A Survey of Copyright Workflows for Institutional
Repositories

http://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1015&cont
ext=lib_fac

http://bit.ly/pOpPi1

Independent writer's admission highlights news copyright issues

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/jun/28/law-expert-view-johann-hari-co
pyright

Private property and public goods of information in view of copyright
and copyleft

http://eprints.rclis.org/bitstream/10760/15727/1/c.b.vol.3.no.2.nuss.pdf

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Thu Sep 8 10:07:28 2011
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:07:28 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 7 September 2011
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Intellectual Property:

Bills in Parliament (South Africa) - see: IP Amendment Bill (Traditional
Knowledge) under Trade & Industry (login required)

http://www.pmg.org.za/files/billsprogress.pdf

Second Circuit Copyright Ruling Could Affect Libraries

http://bit.ly/qABnta

France: Copyright Is More Important Than Human Rights

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110902/15025715798/france-copyright

Spain: Latest to try to extend copyright term ...

http://bit.ly/q6THk1

US Chamber urges more IP Protection as Job Booster - Tech Supporters
Disagree

http://bit.ly/qK0b6u

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

How IFLA Fixes the World: FAIFE, Hope, and Charity

http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/global-reach/how-ifla-fixes-world-f
aife-hope-and-charity

E-books Discussion Presses Plenty of Biblio-Buttons

http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/global-reach/e-books-discussion-pre
sses-plenty-biblio-buttons

Expanding eBooks: Purchasing and Lending at Canadian Public Libraries

http://www.culc.ca/cms_lib/Expanding%20the%20eBook%20Market%202011.pdf

Open e-Books: the Changing Paradigm

http://academicjournals.org/IJLIS/PDF/pdf2009/June/Nikam%20and%20Rai.pdf

The Open Access Interviews: Wellcome Trust's Robert Kiley

http://poynder.blogspot.com/2011/08/open-access-interviews-wellcome-trus
ts.html

Resource Library (OER)

http://getideas.org/resources/

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Thu Sep 8 10:09:45 2011
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:09:45 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 8 September 2011
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FYI,

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National Book Week (South Africa) (6-13 September 2011)

National Book Week Programme

http://www.sabookcouncil.co.za/pdf/National_Book_Week%202010_PROGRAMME_I
NFORMATION.pdf

Intellectual Property

Digital Copyright and Disability Discrimination: From Braille Books to
Bookshare

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1138809

A Law and Economics Analysis of Fair Use Differences Comparing the US
and UK

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1858704

The Creative Destruction of Copyright - Innovation in the Record
Industry and Digital Copying

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1630343

Overprotection and Protection Overlaps in Intellectual Property Law -
the Need for Horizontal Fair Use Defences

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1597123

Balancing Copyright and Library Rights in a Digital Age

http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/global-reach/balancing-copyright-an
d-library-rights-digital-age

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

JSTOR Announces Free Access to 500K Public Domain Journal Articles

http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/891947-264/jstor_announces_free_ac
cess_to.html.csp

When does academic publishing get disrupted?

http://gigaom.com/2011/08/30/so-when-does-academic-publishing-get-disrup
ted/

The Changing Nature of Libraries (and other Vimeos)

http://lonewolflibrarian.wordpress.com/

No, we shouldn't just Google it': John Walsh laments the death of the
reference book

http://ind.pn/obvZYg

Open Biology

http://rsob.royalsocietypublishing.org/

Archiving Thoughts - Museums, the Internet and the Nature of Knowledge

http://bit.ly/q4Cb6H

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Fri Sep 9 11:39:01 2011
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 11:39:01 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 9 September 2011
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FYI,

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Traditional Knowledge

Intellectual struggles over genetic resources and traditional knowledge

http://www.ecipe.org/blog/intellectual-struggles-over-genetic-resources-
and-traditional-knowledge

Mobile Technologies & Social Networking

Mobile technology R&D gets a boost with DST, Nokia, NSN partnership
(South Africa)

http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/mobile-technology-rd-gets-a-boo
st-with-dst-nokia-nsn-partnership-2011-08-15

Mobile Affairs

http://blog.socialcast.com/e2sday-mobile-affairs/

Future of Mobile (YouTube)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmEyfugMajU

Mobiflock

http://www.mobiflock.com/

Intellectual Property:

IFRRO: Collective Management For Orphan Works

http://bit.ly/oRcJne

Still a Long Way to Go for Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

http://bit.ly/mVcH6N

UK Copyright Modernisation Effort Picks Up Steam

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2011/08/31/uk-copyright-modernisation-eff
ort-picks-up-steam/

Wikileaks Cables Provide Global Insights on Intellectual Property Issues

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5995/125/

Its Writers v Professors in the latest war of words

http://bit.ly/ntJb1q

New Zealand Traffic Down as Three Strikes Copyright Law Takes Effect

http://bit.ly/qm65VS

France gets an A+ from the US for its anti-consumer intellectual
property related policies

http://keionline.org/node/1254

Global Congress Issues Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property
and the Public Interest

http://infojustice.org/archives/5406

Victory for Cliff's Law (Copyright Extension)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14829373

Pirate Politician Calls for Block on EU Copyright Extension

http://bit.ly/roPr3o

SSRC Releases "Media Piracy in Emerging Economies"
http://piracy.ssrc.org/

Conference Alerts

Mobile Web in Africa 2011

23-24 November 2011 - Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa

http://www.mobilewebafrica.com/

First Call of Proposals QQML2012

4th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International
Conference (QQML2012

22 - 25 May 2012, Limerick, Ireland.

Contact: secretariat at isast.org or see:
http://www.isast.org/abstractpaperregister.html

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Tue Sep 13 09:59:25 2011
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:59:25 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 13 September 2011
Message-ID: <799133C31EA6CE45B6085C6996225F16018D7F70@GAIA.ds.wits.ac.za>

FYI,

Regards

Denise

Intellectual Property:

Orphan Works Project to Scan Library Books for Online Database

http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Orphan-Works-Project-to-Scan-
Library-Books-for-Online-Database-77583.asp

EU extends Copyright Protection from 50 to 70 years

http://bit.ly/qrA5HA

"Washington Declaration" Demands Return of Public Interest in IP Rights

http://bit.ly/qfKUdI

Still a long way to Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.

http://bit.ly/mVcH6N

Traditional Knowledge:

Botswana to develop policy to protect traditional knowledge

http://bit.ly/qXuVXo

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

A barrier-free world with open-access publishing

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/article2447004.ec
e

Open Repositories 2011 (Conference papers)

https://conferences.tdl.org/or/OR2011/OR2011main/schedConf/presentations

IFLA Annual Report 2010

http://www.ifla.org/en/news/out-now-2010-ifla-annual-report

Push for Access to Information (South Africa)

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-09-09-push-for-access-to-information/

Open Access Week 2011 - dates announced

http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/open-access-week-2011-dates

Mobile Technologies & Social Networking:

Classroom 20.com

http://www.classroom20.com/

Conference alerts:

Open Repositories 2012 Conference

9-13 July 2012 : Edinburgh, Scotland

http://sites.tdl.org/openrepositories/

Worldwide Virtual Conference-; Library 2.011

http://www.library20.com/page/2011-conference

The Global Education Conference (Virtual conference)

http://globaleducation.ning.com/page/2011-conference

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http://www.wits.ac.za/library

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Wits_Copyright_Guidelines

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

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

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/plagiarism_citation_and_referencing

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Resources_for_Blind_and_Visually-Impaired

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/deaf_and_hardofhearing

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/digitisation_preservation_and_digitalcuratio
n

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/journalism_and_media-studies

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Wed Sep 14 15:06:17 2011
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:06:17 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 14 September 2011
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FYI,

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Denise

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Intellectual Property:

Authors Guild Sues Colleges, HathiTrust Digital Book Project

http://signalnews.com/authors-guild-sues-college-hathitrust-digital-book
s-686

http://bit.ly/o2AVjf

Global Congress Issues Washington Declaration on IP and the Public
Interest

http://bit.ly/oVMVM3

Fair Use Face-Off, Canadian Edition

http://bit.ly/nJU3ei

Lawful Access Legislation: 8 In 10 Oppose Internet Surveillance Without
A Warrant

http://huff.to/qrUziH

Directory of Intellectual Property Offices

http://www.wipo.int/directory/en/urls.jsp

Mobile Technologies & Social Networks

MyMobileBristol

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue67/jones-et-al/MyBristo

Mobile Web Apps: A Briefing Paper

http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/images/7/76/Mobile_Web_Apps.pdf

Learning with Online and Mobile Technologies: A Student Survival Guide

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue65/whalley-rvw/

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Citation by Citation, New Maps Chart Hot Research and Scholarship's
Hidden Terrain

http://chronicle.com/article/Maps-of-Citations-Uncover-New/128938/

Citation Metrics/Analysis and Impact Factors (various resources)

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/aecontent.php?pid=155021&sid=1698516

How Academic Journals Price Out Developing Countries

http://theconversation.edu.au/how-academic-journals-price-out-developing
-countries-2484

A Double-edged Sword: What Are the Implications of Freedom of
Information for the HE Sector?

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue67/rin-foi-rpt/

Envisioning Future Academic Library Services: Initiatives, Ideas and
Challenges

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue67/azzolini-rvw/

Modern Citizens Know the Library's Worth
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/modern-citizens-kno
w-a-librarys-worth/article2147704/

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