Intellectual Property:

Fair Use/Fair Dealing Handbook (2015)

http://infojustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/fair-use-handbook-march-2015.pdf

Fair Use – Myths and Facts

http://fairuseweek.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/fair-use-myths-and-facts-infographic-feb2017.pdf

Diffusing fair use - the global trend and what it means for Australia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8_yabkiOyQ

EU copyright reform goes from bad to worse

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/07/eu-copyright-reform-goes-bad-worse/

The artist’s resale right: a fair deal for visual artists

http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2017/03/article_0001.html

What is an artist’s resale right and other resources

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

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Are reproducibility and open science starting to matter in tenure and promotion review?

https://cos.io/blog/are-reproducibility-and-open-science-starting-matter-tenure-and-promotion-review/

Text mining of 15 million full-text scientific articles

http://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/07/11/162099

Defining a New Content Type: The Exploratory Resource

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/07/18/new-content-type-exploratory-resource/

Elsevier and Other Scholarly Publishers Target Content Pirates

http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Elsevier-and-Other-Scholarly-Publishers-Target-Content-Pirates-119390.asp

Major German Universities Cancel Elsevier Contracts

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/49906/title/Major-German-Universities-Cancel-Elsevier-Contracts/&_utm_source=1-2-2/

Link of the Day: 1,700 Artworks from the Collection of the Guggenheim Museums In Open Access

https://birdinflight.com/news/industry/20170717-free-guggenheim-collection-online.html

On Blacklists and Whitelists

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/49903/title/On-Blacklists-and-Whitelists/

Open Access Publishing Models and How OA Can Work in the Humanities

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430505/full

On sponsorship, transparency, scholarly publishing, and open access

http://poynder.blogspot.co.za/2017/07/on-sponsorship-transparency-scholarly.html

Open Access Research – The Benefits and Obligations for Digital Historians.

http://jeffblackadar.ca/uncategorized/open-access-research-the-benefits-and-obligations-for-digital-historians/

A small step towards publishing a world class paper

https://ub.vu.nl/en/news-agenda/news-archive/2017/apr-jun/a-small-step-towards-publishing-a-world-class-paper.aspx

Jon Tennant - The Cost Of Knowledge

https://sciencedisrupt.com/posts/2016/5/20/jon-tennant-the-cost-of-knowledge

Useful Libguides

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/prf.php?account_id=25548

 

Traditional Knowledge:

Without Understanding What Traditional Knowledge Is, We Cannot Utilize It Appropriately

https://www.ip-watch.org/2017/07/18/without-understanding-traditional-knowledge-cannot-utilize-appropriately/

Traditional Knowledge and IP

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

Climate Change and Traditional Knowledge

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/climatechange/Traditional_Knowledge