IFLA High Level Meetings – 2015

13 African Cultural Ministers sign the Cape Town Declaration, August 2015

http://www.ifla.org/node/9767

IFLA high-level meeting sets the advocacy agenda for libraries in Africa

http://www.ifla.org/node/9718

 

Intellectual Property:

The South African Copyright Law: a historical overview and challenges to address access to knowledge issues in a country in transformation

http://library.ifla.org/1248/

The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/magazine/the-creative-apocalypse-that-wasnt.html?_r=0

The Economic Impact  of Copyright

https://www.publicknowledge.org/files/TPP%20Econ%20Presentation.pdf

Forget the Outrage – Stop Signing Away your Rights to Corporations

http://savageminds.org/2015/08/22/forget-outrage-stop-signing-away-rights-corporations/

10 Things you Need to Know about Street Art

http://afro-ip.blogspot.com/2015/08/10-things-you-need-to-know-about.html

 

Legal Deposit:

Legal deposit in South Africa: transformation in a digital world

http://library.ifla.org/1127/1/089-nicholson-en.pdf

Legal Deposit in South Africa - Resources

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

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Open Access is a Development Issue – The Status Quo Needs to be Challenged

https://theconversation.com/open-access-is-a-development-issue-the-status-quo-needs-to-be-challenged-46105

Open Access to Research Data – 10 recommendations

http://policy.recodeproject.eu/overall-recommendations/

EU launches Open access checklist for universities

http://eua.be/News/15-04-09/EUA_launches_Open_Access_checklist_for_universities.aspx

Making information ‘free’

http://www.isthmus.com/news/news/Open-Access-Academic-Publishing/

Open Access and Development: Journals and Beyond

https://www.academia.edu/15032898/Open_Access_and_Development_Journals_and_Beyond

African Libraries that adapt can take the contingent’s knowledge to the world

https://theconversation.com/african-libraries-that-adapt-can-take-the-continents-knowledge-to-the-world-46044

Who Says Libraries are Dying – They are Evolving into Spaces of Innovation

https://theconversation.com/who-says-libraries-are-dying-they-are-evolving-into-spaces-for-innovation-44820

Valuing our treasured print history in the era of the ‘bookless’ library

https://theconversation.com/valuing-our-treasured-print-history-in-the-era-of-the-bookless-library-25716

Perceptions of Open Access Publishing are Changing for the Better – a Survey by Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan finds

http://www.stm-publishing.com/perceptions-of-open-access-publishing-are-changing-for-the-better-a-survey-by-nature-publishing-group-and-palgrave-macmillan-finds/

From TRIPS to Preferential Trade Agreements: Challenges for Emerging Countries

http://infojustice.org/archives/34727

Amplifying the Impact of Open Access: Wikipedia and the Diffusion of Science

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1506/1506.07608.pdf

ATG News Channel Original: Academic Library Publishing, Pt. 1: Changing Times, Changing Roles

http://www.against-the-grain.com/2015/08/atg-newschannel-original-academic-library-publishing-part-1-changing-times-changing-roles/