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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:21:20 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues
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Hello Everyone and Welcome to my new Information Service "Copyright &
A2K Issues".
To give people time to subscribe to the new list, I will only start
sending out references from Monday 9th February 2009.
However, many have subscribed already so here are some conference alerts
and new books for interest.
Regards
Denise Nicholson
Conferences:
Intellectual Property Conferences 2009 :-
http://www.fordhamipinstitute.com/ip_conference/index1.html
http://www.ipmenu.com/conferences.asp
http://www.americanconference.com/Intellectual_Property.htm
http://www.ipr-forum.com/index.php
Syncom Business Intelligence Intellectual Property Conference
22-23 April 2009
Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa
For <http://www.syncombi.co.za> information, contact Precious Moyo at:
precious at syncombi.co.za <mailto:precious at syncombi.co.za>
A Race Against Time: preserving our Audiovisual Media
2-3 March 2009
Presented by Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
Cosponsored & hosted by the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at
Austin, TX
http://www.ccaha.org/education/program-calendar
ProLISSA conference
4-6 March 2009
University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria.
http://www.unisa.ac.za/default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=21549
Asia-Pacific Conference on Library & Information
Education and Practice - Preparing Information Professionals for
International Collaboration
6-8 March 2009
University of Tsukuba, Japan
http://a-liep.kc.tsukuba.ac.jp/index.html
Gaelic Conference on Disability in Higher Education: The Road we have
travelled
19-20 March 2009
University of Johannesburg, School of Tourism & Hospitality,
Auckland Park, Johannesburg, South Africa
http://www.fotim.ac.za/fotim_conferences/disability2009/index.html
The Ohio ETD Association (OETDA) annual conference
2-3 April, 2009.
Hosted by the Ohio State University
Venue: Holiday Inn on the Lane, Columbus, Ohio.
http://www.oetda.org/meetings/
Second International Symposium on Academic Globalization:
AG 2009 July 10th - 13th, 2009
Orlando, Florida, USA
New Books:
"The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind" (James Boyle)
http://www.thepublicdomain.org/download/ (free to download)
"Global Information Inequalities: Bridging the information gap"
and "The Politics of Libraries and Librarianship: challenges and
realities"
(the foreword of this book is the keynote address given by Judge Albie
Sachs at the
IFLA Conference in Durban, South Africa, 2007)
(both part of the Chandos Information Professional Series and for
purchase
from Chandos Publishers, UK) (both contain chapters on intellectual
property issues)
"The Implementation Game: The TRIPS Agreement and the Global Politics
of Intellectual Property Reform in Developing Countries"
For purchase from Oxford University Press, UK -
http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199550616
Denise Rosemary Nicholson (Mrs.)
Copyright Services Librarian,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
The Library, Private Bag X1, WITS, 2050, South Africa
Tel. No. + 27 11 717-1929
Fax No. + 27 11 717-1946
http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/Services/COPYRIGHT.htm
http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/ResearchResources/SubjectPortals/Copyright
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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Mon Feb 9 11:46:13 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:46:13 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2k Issues - 9 February 2009 (2)
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FYI,
Regards
Denise Nicholson
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please see: http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/copyrightanda2kinfo
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Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication:-
Access to Knowledge Network
Herana Gateway to African Higher Education Research
http://www.herana-gateway.org/
Gandhi's papers now in the public domain
http://www.livemint.com/2008/12/29232525/Copyright-on-Gandhi8217s-wo.htm
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<https://email.wits.ac.za/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.livemint.
com/2008/12/29232525/Copyright-on-Gandhi8217s-wo.html>
Scholarly Publishers recognize the usefulness of Institutional
Repositories
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2009/01/scholarly-publishers-recogni
ze.html
The Value that Repositories Add
http://repositoryman.blogspot.com/2008/11/value-that-repositories-add.ht
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<https://email.wits.ac.za/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://repositoryman
.blogspot.com/2008/11/value-that-repositories-add.html>
List of Repositories
http://repositories.webometrics.info/top300_rep.asp
Open Repository & Bibliography
Open Journals Publishing
Director of Open Access Journals
The Library Journal Academic newswire year in Review, the TOP Academic
Library Stories of 2008
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6626579.html?desc=topstory
MESUR for Measure: Metrics from Scholarly Usage of Resources-
http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/12/mesur-for-measure-metrics-from
.html
<https://email.wits.ac.za/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://scholarship20
.blogspot.com/2008/12/mesur-for-measure-metrics-from.html>
Share Online - Free books
http://tainguyenviet.blogspot.com/2008/12/free-books.html
<https://email.wits.ac.za/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://tainguyenviet
.blogspot.com/2008/12/free-books.html>
Kiwi Research Information Service
http://nzresearch.org.nz/
<https://email.wits.ac.za/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://nzresearch.or
g.nz/>
Scitable - free online educational resource for biology
students/educators
http://www.nature.com/scitable
<https://email.wits.ac.za/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.nature.co
m/scitable>
Crink - Self-publishing site
Denise Rosemary Nicholson (Mrs.)
Copyright Services Librarian,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
The Library, Private Bag X1, WITS, 2050, South Africa
Tel. No. + 27 11 717-1929
Fax No. + 27 11 717-1946
http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/Services/COPYRIGHT.htm
http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/ResearchResources/SubjectPortals/Copyright
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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Tue Feb 10 10:44:00 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:44:00 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 9 February 2009
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Hello and Welcome to my new Information Service "Copyright & A2K
Issues".
Regards
Denise Nicholson
(For information about this Service, or to subscribe/unsubscribe,
please see: http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/copyrightanda2kinfo
<http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/copyrightanda2kinfo> )
Plagiarism resources:-
http://www.web-miner.com/plagiarism
Intellectual Property:-
African Copyright & Access to Knowledge Project (ACA2K)
Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research &
Development Act, No. 51 of 2008 (South Africa)
(This Act comes into effect on a date to be proclaimed by the President
in the Government Gazette).
http://www.info.gov.za/view/DownloadFileAction?id=94343
<https://email.wits.ac.za/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.info.gov.
za/view/DownloadFileAction?id=94343>
Privatising Public Knowledge
Reaction to India's Bill against Open Access to Publicly Funded Research
http://openeducationnews.org/2009/01/18/reaction-to-indias-bill-against-
open-access-to-publicly-funded-researches/
<https://email.wits.ac.za/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://openeducation
news.org/2009/01/18/reaction-to-indias-bill-against-open-access-to-publi
cly-funded-researches/>
IP from Publicly Funded Research Should Benefit the Public, Experts Say
http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1395
WIPO SCCR 17 final agreed upon text on persons with reading disabilities
http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2008/11/07/sccr17_disabled-text/#more-273
Live Posts of Conference on Patents, Copyrights & Knowledge Governance:
the next Four years
Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (Washington, DC, 12-13 January 2009
http://www.gavinbaker.com/2009/01/13/tacd-ip-conference-review/
<https://email.wits.ac.za/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.gavinbake
r.com/2009/01/13/tacd-ip-conference-review/>
Free Patents Online
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/
Traditional Knowledge: -
TK Bulletin
http://www.wiserearth.org/resource/view/9f80428f1bc25ef08c112f73763a29d0
Denise Rosemary Nicholson (Mrs.)
Copyright Services Librarian,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
The Library, Private Bag X1, WITS, 2050, South Africa
Tel. No. + 27 11 717-1929
Fax No. + 27 11 717-1946
http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/Services/COPYRIGHT.htm
http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/ResearchResources/SubjectPortals/Copyright
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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Tue Feb 10 11:02:40 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:02:40 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 10 February 2009 (1)
Message-ID: <D1E4F8FEF09E574085C281B4EF6BA4F1D17C13@GAIA.ds.wits.ac.za>
FYI,
Regards
Denise Nicholson
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please see: http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/copyrightanda2kinfo
<http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/copyrightanda2kinfo> )
Intellectual Property:-
Copyright: Republication of "Nazi newspapers" - verboten?
http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2009/02/republication-of-nazi-newspapers.ht
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Patents versus patenting: implications of intellectual property
protection for biological research
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v27/n1/full/nbt0109-36.html
Taubman Of WIPO Picked To Head WTO IP Division
http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/02/04/taubman-of-wipo-picked-to-head
-ip-division-at-wto/
The Last Defence Of The IP System: An Interview With Jamie Boyle
http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/01/28/inside-views-the-last-defence-
of-the-ip-system-an-interview-with-jamie-boyle/
ACTA, an Example of Global Democracy Deficit -- the Secret Treaty
Negotiation
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/acta-an-example-of-global_b_16
3732.html>
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/acta-an-example-of-global_b_163
732.html
Details emerge of secret ACTA negotiation
<http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2009/02/03/details-emerge-of-secret-acta
/>
http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2009/02/03/details-emerge-of-secret-acta/
Conference alerts:-
African Digital Scholarship & Curation Conference
12-14 May 2009, CSIR Conference Centre, Pretoria, South Africa
http://www.library.up.ac.za/digi/programme.htm
Libraries Plus: Adding Value in the Cultural Community
17-20 August 2009, Istituto degli Innocenti, Florence, Italy
http://www.ifla2009satelliteflorence.it/meeting1/meeting1.html
13th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL2009)
September 27 - October 2 2009, Corfu, Greece
ETD Conference
June 10 - 13, 2009
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
http://www.library.pitt.edu/etd2009/about.html
Denise Rosemary Nicholson (Mrs.)
Copyright Services Librarian,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
The Library, Private Bag X1, WITS, 2050, South Africa
Tel. No. + 27 11 717-1929
Fax No. + 27 11 717-1946
http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/Services/COPYRIGHT.htm
http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/ResearchResources/SubjectPortals/Copyright
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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Tue Feb 10 11:36:52 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:36:52 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 10 February 2009
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FYI,
Regards
Denise Nicholson
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Apologies. One of the links on my earlier email (1) today had a glitch.
Here is the correct email:
Reaction to India's Bill against Open Access to Publicly Funded Research
http://openeducationnews.org/2009/01/18/reaction-to-indias-bill-against-
open-access-to-publicly-funded-researches/
Plagiarism:-
Why Students Plagiarize
http://library.albany.edu/usered/plagiarism/page3.html
http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/plagiarism/why/index.cfm
http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/teaching/plagiarism/why.cfm
http://wwwlb.aub.edu.lb/~eplagio/Turnitin/printable%20handouts/WhyStuPla
giarize.pdf
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/plagiarism/facguide/causes
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:-
List of Legal Scholarly Institutional Repositories.
http://home.comcast.net/~richards1000/LegalInformationSystemsBibliograph
y.htm#INSTITUTIONALREPOSITORIES
Why some forms of OA have grown faster than others in legal scholarship
<http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/02/why-some-forms-of-oa-have-gr
own-faster.html>
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/02/why-some-forms-of-oa-have-gro
wn-faster.html
Legal Scholarship, Electronic Publishing, and Open Access:
Transformation or Steadfast Stagnation?*
http://www.aallnet.org/products/pub_llj_v101n01/2009-02.pdf
Open Access legal resources
Recent news on Open Access to Public Sector Information
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/02/recent-news-on-oa-to-psi.html
Economic Implications of Alternative Scholarly Publishing Models:
Exploring the costs and benefits
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/economicpublishingmodels
finalreport.aspx
DRIVER Guidelines for Repository Managers
http://www.driver-support.eu/managers.html
ARL Developing a Scholarly Communication Program in your Library
http://www.arl.org/sc/institute/fair/scprog/index.shtml
The Horizon Report
http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2009/
World Newspapers Archive Update
http://www.crl.edu/focus/0809WinWNAUpdate.asp?issID=47
The Future of Newspapers: a Conversation
http://www.crl.edu/focus/0809WinOnTheRecord.asp?issID=47
Free Software PDF Reader
Digital Britain: the Interim Report
http://www.culture.gov.uk/images/publications/S1_digital_britain_interim
reportjan09.pdf
Denise Rosemary Nicholson (Mrs.)
Copyright Services Librarian,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
The Library, Private Bag X1, WITS, 2050, South Africa
Tel. No. + 27 11 717-1929
Fax No. + 27 11 717-1946
http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/Services/COPYRIGHT.htm
http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/ResearchResources/SubjectPortals/Copyright
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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Thu Feb 12 10:00:42 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:00:42 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 12 February 2009
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FYI,
Regards
Denise Nicholson
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please see: http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/copyrightanda2kinfo <http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/copyrightanda2kinfo> )
Intellectual Property:-
South Centre : Intellectual Property Quarterly Update
http://www.southcentre.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&se...
Afro-IP - African IP law, practice and policies
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:-
Open Access Journal - First Monday
http://firstmonday.org/issue/current
Open Journals - Open access links
http://openjournals.net/index.php?option=com_weblinks&catid=26&Itemid=58
Coyright & A2K Information Service launched!
http://kim.wits.ac.za/index.php?module=news&action=viewstory&id=gen16Srv...
IFLA Science & Technology Newsletter
http://www.ifla.org/VII/s7/news/s7-newsletter-Jan09.pdf
Issues and challenges to the development of open
access institutional repositories in academic and
research institutions in Nigeria
http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca/dspace/bitstream/123456789/36986/1/127792.pdf <http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca/dspace/bitstream/123456789/36986/1/127792.pdf>
Ranking Web of World Repositories
http://repositories.webometrics.info/index.html
Collector donates 150,000 maps to Stanford
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=11161
http://www.davidrumsey.com/index4.html
The Legal Education Commons offers Open Access to 700,000 Federal Court Decisions
http://openeducationnews.org/2009/01/28/the-legal-education-commons-offe...
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography - 2008 Annual edition
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/sepb2008.pdf
Digitization:-
CHE: Bringing Tenure Into The Digital Age: Q&A With Christine L. Borgman
http://ahabloging.com/2009/02/che-bringing-tenure-into-the-digital-age-q...
Digital Curation Center : Interoperability
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resource/briefing-papers/interoperability