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Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 09:49:24 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 1 June 2009
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FYI,

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Intellectual Property:-

Final conclusions of WIPO SCCR 18

http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2009/05/29/final-conclusions-of-sccr-18/

WIPO Limitations & Exceptions Treaty Advances; Audiovisual Treaty Gets
New Life

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/?p=4072

Freedom Of Expression Vs. DRM: The First Empirical Assessment

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/05/25/freedom-of-expression-versus-d
rm-the-first-empirical-assessment/

Admissions of another sort

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/04/13/george

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:-

Genocide by Denial: How Profiteering from HIV/AIDS Killed Millions -
Open Access Book from Uganda (PALM project0
<http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/palm-africa/2009/05/24/genocide-by-denial-i
n-uganda>

http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/palm-africa
<http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/palm-africa>

Global Open Access: The Price of Knowledge
<http://publishopenaccess.blogspot.com/2009/05/global-open-access-price-
of-knowledge.html>

http://publishopenaccess.blogspot.com/2009/05/global-open-access-price-o
f-knowledge.html

Economic Implications of Alternative Scholarly Publishing Models -
Exploring the costs and benefits

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/rpteconomicoapublishi
ng.pdf

Conference alerts:

Braille Conference

21-22 August 2009 - Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

Contact: blaxall at futurenet.co.za

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Mon Jun 8 11:57:00 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 11:57:00 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 8 June 2009
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FYI,

Regards

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Intellectual Property:

Seeking balance between public, private rights

http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Sunday/National/2575804/Article/i
ndex_html

Teaching Copyright (USA)

http://www.teachingcopyright.org/

Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication:

What is Scholarly Publishing?

http://evangelicaltextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2009/05/what-is-scholarl
y-publishing.html

Authors' Rights - Kenneth Crews on Protecting Your Scholarship [AUDIO]

http://hmo-and-ihstorybccfjfs.blogspot.com/2009/06/texas-health-insuranc
e-providers.html

SPARC Open Access Newsletter - 2 June 2009

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/06-02-09.htm

Gaining the momentum: eIFL marks five year commitment to Open Access in
South Africa

http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/news/spotlight/2009_05_22_gaining-momen
tum-eifl

Schwarzenegger: Digital textbooks can save money, improve learning

http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_12536333?nclick_check=1

10 University-Press Directors Back Free Access to Scholarly Articles

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3811&utm_source=wc&utm_med
ium=en

Open-access publishing gains another convert - University College London
joins rapidly growing throng

http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090603/full/news.2009.538.html

ROARMAP (Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies)

http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/

Free Lectures & Courses from Great Universities (Audio and Video)
<http://www.openculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html>

http://www.openculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html

SWORD Open Access Project

http://www.crosswire.org/sword/index.jsp

PEER Guidelines for publishers and repository managers on deposit,
assisted deposit and self-archiving

http://www.peerproject.eu/fileadmin/media/reports/D3_1_Guidelines_v8.3_2
0090528.Final.pdf

DuraSpace

http://duraspace.org

Creative Commons Case Studies

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies

Conference alerts:

STEM Annual Event in Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property,

19-22 August, 2009, Hyderabad, India

Contact: Prabhu Ram at prabhur at sathguru.com
<mailto:prabhur at sathguru.com>

2nd Archives and Records Management (ARM) conference

8-10 September 2009 at Sun City: North West Province, South Africa

www.khunkhwane.co.za

CULTURAL HERITAGE on line - Empowering users: an active role for user
communities

15-16 December 2009, Florence, Italy

http://www.rinascimento-digitale.it/conference2009

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http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/Services/COPYRIGHT.htm
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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Fri Jun 12 08:38:19 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:38:19 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 11 June 2009
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FYI,

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Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication:

Major U.K. University Goes Open Access

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/06/major-uk-univer.html

National student organizations call for Open Access to research

http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/09-0610.shtml

Costs and Benefits of Research Communication: The Dutch Situation
http://www.surffoundation.nl/en/publicaties/Pages/CostsandBenefitsofOpen
AccessPublicationlTheDutchSituation.aspx
<http://www.surffoundation.nl/en/publicaties/Pages/CostsandBenefitsofOpe
nAccessPublicationlTheDutchSituation.aspx>

OA would save the Netherlands 133 million Euros/year
<http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/06/oa-would-save-netherlands-13
3-million.html>

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/06/oa-would-save-netherlands-133
-million.html

The Open Access Apocalypse

http://dancull.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/the-open-access-apocalypse/

Research communication costs in Australia, emerging opportunities and
benefits

http://eprints.vu.edu.au/538/

Merck published fake journal

http://www.the-scientist.com/templates/trackable/display/blog.jsp?type=b
log&o_url=blog/display/55671&id=55671

Open-Access Publisher Appears to Have Accepted Fake Paper From Bogus
Center

http://chronicle.com/news/article/6613/open-source-publisher-is-found-to
-have-accepted-fake-paper-from-bogus-center

Wolfram Alpha Computational Knowledge Engine for the Web

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Ancestry.ca announces world-first online launch of the Historical
Canadian Censuses, 1851-1916 - 32M names

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2009/10/c4817.html

Free ebooks' effects on book-sales

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/11/free-ebooks-effects.html

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Fri Jun 12 09:11:04 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:11:04 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 12 June 2009
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FYI,

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Intellectual Property:

IP Quarterly Update (1st Quarter 2009) -

Counterfeit Medical Products: Need for Caution against Co-opting Public Health Concerns for IP Protection and Enforcement - http://www.southcentre.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=100...

Eye-opener for a more enlightened world

http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=...

Implementing the World Intellectual Property Organization's Development Agenda (free to download book)

http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-139311-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

Top Legal Body Strikes Down Anti-Piracy Law (France)

http://www.france24.com/en/20090610-top-legal-body-strikes-down-anti-pir...

France's three-strikes copyright rule is unconstitutional and hence dead

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/10/frances-three-strike.html

Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication:

Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook

http://www.openoasis.org/

The Argument for Gold OA Support

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2009/06/11/the-argument-for-gold-o...

Publishers Issue Statement on Open Access

http://www.authorlink.com/news/item/2088/Publishers-Issue-Statement-on-O...

Quantifying the value of peer review

http://tscott.typepad.com/tsp/2009/06/quantifying-the-value-of-peer-revi...

Cybercaf? in a container": Rural Kenya's mobile internet stations

http://www.apc.org/en/node/8765/

Is the price for the ebook reasonable?

http://koobe.net/index.php/2009/06/is-the-price-for-the-e-book-reasonable/

Why SciELO? A strategic approach to research in South Africa (PPT)

http://eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-oa/training/2009-pretoria/5-s...

The price of ignorance is more than mere slavery, it includes money <http://www.dkeats.com/index.php?module=blog&action=viewsingle&postid=gen...

http://www.dkeats.com/index.php?module=blog&action=viewsingle&postid=gen... <http://www.dkeats.com/index.php?module=blog&action=viewsingle&postid=gen...

Knowledge to Policy - Making the Most of Development Research (free to download book)
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-135779-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

Open Learning Resources:

Creativity Portal

http://www.creativity-portal.com/main/about.html

Conference alerts:

Apartheid Archive Research Project - 'Facing the Archive"

The 1st Apartheid Archive Conference

18-20 June 2009 - University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, SA

http://www.apartheidarchive.org/?n=conference

XX Bi-Annual East and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (ESARBICA) General Conference

"Documentary Heritage Management in the Digital Age: Beauty and the Beast" -

1-3 July 2009, Windhoek, Namibia

www.conferencelink.com.na.

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Mon Jun 22 12:54:59 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:54:59 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 22 June 2009
Message-ID: <D1E4F8FEF09E574085C281B4EF6BA4F1014ECBE5@GAIA.ds.wits.ac.za>

FYI,

Regards

Denise

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Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication:-

Don't ask, don't tell" rights retention for scholarly articles

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2009/06/18/dont-ask-dont-tell-righ
ts-retention-for-scholarly-articles/

Open Journal Systems

http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs

Will the real Web 2.0 stand up?

http://aliquidnovi.org/?p=218

Digital Scholarship

http://openreflections.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/digital-scholarship/

Coalition of Student Organizations calls for open access

http://www.openstudents.org/

Medical Students, Other Student Groups Endorse Open Access

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6666088.html

Open Access Policies Search (CAIRSS)

http://cairss.caul.edu.au/www/search/open_access_policies_search.htm

Intellectual Property:

Plagiarism in the age of Google, and post-Google

http://aliquidnovi.org/?p=313

IP Burble (IP Watch)

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/ip-burble/?burble=4619#post-4619

Way Forward on IP Issues at the WTO Still Unclear

http://iitrade.ac.in/news-archive.asp?news=824

EFF and Public Knowledge Reluctantly Drop Lawsuit for Information About
ACTA

Government's 'National Security' Claims Keep IP Treaty Under Wraps

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/06/17-9

WCO Considers New 'Dialogue Mechanism' On Counterfeiting, Explicit Focus
On Public Health

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/?p=4715

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Tue Jun 23 15:13:02 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
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Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 23 June 2009
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FYI,

Regards

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Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication:

Bibliotheca Alexandrina A2K newsletter (June 2009)

https://www.bibalex.org/a2k/attachments/Newsletters/JuneEn.pdf

Change or Die?

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/06/22/aaup

LibWorld - South Africa (Blogging)

http://infobib.de/blog/2009/06/08/libworld-south-africa/

Africa Weather Information Network Launched by UN

http://www.ethiopianreview.com/articles/9666

Intellectual Property:

Plagiarism Portal

http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/ResearchResources/SubjectPortals/Plagiaris
m+Portal.htm

EU, US Consumer Groups Issue Resolution On Enforcement; Demand Role In
ACTA

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/06/23/eu-us-consumer-groups-issue-re
solution-on-enforcement-demand-role-in-acta/

Conference alert:

WIPO International Conference to Probe Interface between IP and Public
Policy

13-14 July 2009, Geneva, Switzerland

http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2009/article_0017.html

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