Copyright & A2K Issues - 13 December 2013

13 December 2013 · Denise Nicholson

GOD'S RICHEST BLESSINGS TO YOU FOR CHRISTMAS AND ALL THE BEST FOR 2014. OUR INSTITUTION CLOSES ON 20 DECEMBER 2013 AND RE-OPENS ON 2 JANUARY 2014, BUT I HAVE TAKEN A FEW EXTRA DAYS OFF SO WILL BE BACK IN THE OFFICE ON 7 JANUARY 2014.

THIS WILL BE THE LAST NEWSLETTER FOR 2013.

News from my institution, Wits:

Wits Pays Tribute to Madiba at Memorial

http://www.wits.ac.za/newsroom/newsitems/201312/22458/news_item_22349.html

My Tribute to Nelson Mandela

http://www.africanlii.org/blogs/denise/tribute-nelson-mandela

Lee Berger Talks About Rising Star Project

http://thesebonesofmine.wordpress.com/2013/12/11/lee-berger-talks-about-rising-star-project/

Intellectual Property:

IPRs An Issue In Latest HIV Treatment Monitoring Test, Group Says

http://www.ip-watch.org/2013/12/10/iprs-an-issue-in-latest-hiv-treatment-monitoring-test-group-says/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Caltech Announces Open Access Policy

http://www.caltech.edu/content/caltech-announces-open-access-policy

"I always stick with the first thing that comes up on Google. . ." Where People Go for Information, What They Use, and Why

http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/i-always-stick-first-thing-comes-google-where-people-go-information-what-they-use-and-why#

Norway to digitize all the Norwegian books

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/norway-decided-to-digitize-all-the-norwegian-books/282008/

Unesco makes its publications available free of charge through a new open access repository

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/unesco_makes_its_publications_available_free_of_charge_through_a_new_open_access_repository/back/9597/#.UqnQymRDuwE

Altmetrics in Context

http://www.carl-abrc.ca/uploads/SCC/altmetrics_dec_2013-e.pdf

Nobel Laureate Makes Convincing Case Against the Scientific Journals

http://www.thewire.com/national/2013/12/science-journal-boycott/355970/

Open Access: Publishers Face the Academic Community

http://m.actualitte.com/n/46870

The Diamond Model of Open Access Publishing: Why Policy Makers, Scholars, Universities, Libraries, Labour Unions and the Publishing World Need to Take Non-Commercial, Non-Profit Open Access Serious

http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/502

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