Copyright & A2K Issues - 7 October 2009

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From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 10:35:59 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 7 October 2009
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FYI,

Regards,

Denise

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Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication:-

Scholarly Books: Their Production, Use and Evaluation in South Africa
Today

http://www.assaf.org.za/images/Scholarly%20Report%20WEB%20L-RES.pdf

Internet breeding world of innovation

http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1916380

Ancient World In Open Access Institutional Repositories

http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2009/10/ancient-world-in-open-acc
ess.html

Open and Shut? Profile of Eberhard Hilf

http://poynder.blogspot.com/2009/10/open-access-profile-of-eberhard-hilf
.html

Why you should write in your Books Now

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-leveen/why-you-should-write-in-y_b_3
04250.html

Open Access Funder Policies

http://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/libraryintelligencer/2009/10/06/open-access-
funder-policies/

JPEG2000 - Recommendations for the Wellcome Trust

http://www.scribd.com/doc/19885793/JPEG2000-Recommendations-for-the-Well
come-Trust

New Report on Digital Collections and Weeding Print Journals from
Library Collections

http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-report-on-digital-collectio
ns-and.html#

What to Withdraw in the Wake of Digitization

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2009/10/what-to-with
draw-in-the-wake-of-digitization-recommendations-for-journal-collections
.html

Open Learning Resources/e-Learning:-

The e-Learning and Management Information Systems

http://commonlearning.blogbus.com/logs/47589311.html

Traditional Knowledge:

The Enclosure of the Commons

http://bearmarketnews.blogspot.com/2009/10/enclosure-of-commons.html

Regards

Denise 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
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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Thu Oct 8 10:24:29 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:24:29 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 8 October 2009
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FYI,

Regards,

Denise

RESEARCH OUTPUTS OF THE AFRICAN COPYRIGHT & ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE (ACA2K)
PROJECT (5 OF THE 8 STUDY COUNTRIES) (www.aca2k.org)

1. SOUTH AFRICA:

* Country Report

http://www.aca2k.org/attachments/231_ACA2K%20SA%202009%20CR%20WEB-final.
pdf

* Executive Policy Brief, August 2009

http://www.aca2k.org/attachments/231_ACA2K%20SA%20EXEC%20P%20BRIEF%20WEB
-final-11Sept09.pdf

2. GHANA:

* Country Report

http://www.aca2k.org/attachments/154_ACA2K%20GHANA%20COUNTRY%20REPORT%20
FOR%20WEB.pdf

* Executive Policy Brief, June 2009

http://www.aca2k.org/attachments/154_ACA2K%20GHANA%20EXEC%20PB%20FOR%20W
EB.pdf

3. KENYA:

* Country Report

http://www.aca2k.org/attachments/154_ACA2K%20KENYA%202009%20CR%20FOR%20W
EB-17Aug09.pdf

* Executive Policy Brief, March 2009

http://www.aca2k.org/attachments/154_ACA2K_KENYA_%20EXEC_%20P_%20BRIEF-1
7Aug09%20WEB.pdf

4. MOZAMBIQUE:

* Country Report

http://www.aca2k.org/attachments/107_FINAL_ENG%20_ACA2K_MOZ_2009_CR_WEB.
pdf

* Executive Policy Brief, July 2009

http://www.aca2k.org/attachments/107_ENG%20ACA2K%20MOZ%20EXEC%20P%20BRIE
F%20WEB-7-Aug-09.pdf

5. UGANDA:

* Country Report

http://www.aca2k.org/attachments/154_ACA2K%20UGANDA%20COUNTRY%20REPORT%2
0WEB.pdf

* Executive Policy Brief, June 2009

http://www.aca2k.org/attachments/154_ACA2K%20UGANDA%20EXEC%20P%20BRIEF%2
0WEB.pdf

Regards

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Mon Oct 12 13:16:18 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:16:18 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 12 October 2009
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FYI,

Regards,

Denise

Intellectual Property:

A Tale of Two Development Agendas

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1349967

Joyce Estate to Pay Author after Excessive Copyright Threats

http://www.librarystuff.net/2009/10/01/joyce-estate-to-pay-author-after-
excessive-copyright-threats/

Turns Out Disney Might Not Own The Copyright On Early Mickey Mouse
Cartoons

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080822/1750312073.shtml

Will Books be Napsterized?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/business/04digi.html?_r=2

Traditional Knowledge:

Role of WIPO In Traditional Knowledge in Question

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/09/30/role-of-wipo-in-question/

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

N.B.: Open Access Week 19-23 October 2009

http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/news/2009/10/01/open-access-week-oct-19-23/

For Future Reference

http://www.businessday.co.za/Articles/Content.aspx?id=82431

Proceedings of 1st Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing
(COASP) - September 2009

http://river-valley.tv/conferences/publishing/oaspa-2009/

IRs for Research Assessment

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/10/irs-for-research-assessment.h
tml

Digital Culture and Education

http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2009/09/digital-culture-and-education.
html

Income Models of Open Access Publishing

https://www.lib.uwo.ca/blogs/digitalscholarly/2009/10/income-models-f.ht
ml

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Thu Oct 15 14:25:28 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:25:28 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 14 October 2009 -
Open Access Week 19-23 October 2009!
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FYI,

Regards,

Denise

What is Open Access?

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

Why Open Access?

http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/why-open-access/

About the Open Access Movement

http://www.openaccessweek.org/about-the-oa-movement/

About Open Access Week - 19-23 October 2009

http://www.openaccessweek.org/about-the-week/

A global Open Access Haiku competition! (Closing date 16 October 2009)

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/news/haikulaunch.htm

Celebrate Open Access Week:

http://openaccessday.org/contact/

http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/636-Celebrate-Open-Acc
ess-Week-Register-in-ROARMAP.html

http://www.plos.org/cms/node/435ttp://www.openaccessweek.org/
<http://www.plos.org/cms/node/435ttp:/www.openaccessweek.org/>

http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Events_celebrating_Open_Access_Week

http://open-access.net/de_en/activities/international_open_access_week/a
ctivities_2009/

PMC Canada to launch during OA Week

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/09/pmc-canada-to-launch-during-o
a-week.html

PloS Medicine's 5th Anniversary Competition for Open Access Week

http://www.openaccessweek.org/2009/09/16/pm-anniversary/

New Pro-Repository Group to Launch during Open Access Week

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/09/new-pro-repository-group-to-l
aunch.html

NDLTD celebration of Open Access Week 2009- YouTube Contest

http://www.ndltd.org/Members/john/ndltd-celebration-of-open-access-week-
2009-youtube-contest

Open Access Directory

http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Main_Page

Directory of Open Access Journals

http://www.doaj.org/

"A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by
the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to
share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood".- Leo
Rosten (Source: http://koti.mbnet.fi/neptunia/relating/sharing1.htm)

Regards

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Mon Oct 19 10:26:44 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:26:44 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2k Issues - 19 October 2009
(Open Access Week 19-23 October 2009)
Message-ID: <D1E4F8FEF09E574085C281B4EF6BA4F101C8C280@GAIA.ds.wits.ac.za>

FYI,

Regards,

Denise

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Open Access is Inevitable, Libraries are Told

http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Open-Access-to-Research-Is/8475/

Open Access Anthropology in Africa

http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-oa/oa-news/2009_09_16_ope
n-access-anthropology

Harvard backs Open Access

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/28600/127/

U.S. broadband study says "open access" fosters competition

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE59E16J20091015

FCC Study: Open Access Lowers Prices, Improves Competition

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FCC-Study-Open-Access-Lowers-Prices-I
mproves-Competition-105014?nocomment=1

Is Open Access Journal Publishing a Vanity Publishing Industry?

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2009/10/16/is-open-access-publishi
ng-a-vanity-publishing-industry/

What problem can Open Access solve?

http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/2009/09/27/what-problem-can-open
-access-solve/

Student Coalition for Open Access Solidifies, Now Represents over 5
million students internationally

http://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/libraryintelligencer/2009/10/16/student-coal
ition-for-open-access-solidifies-now-represents-over-5-million-students-
internationally/

Educational Material about Open Access

http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Educational_materials_about_OA

Downloadable Open Access resources

http://www.openaccessweek.org/downloadable-resources-international/

Conference alert:

Open Access 2009 -

7th International Conference on Open Access

Accra, Ghana, 2-3 November 2009

http://www.wideopenaccess.net/

Copying without Infringing in 2009

London, 24 November 2009

http://www.clt.co.uk/brochures/CF51383.pdf

Regards

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Tue Oct 20 12:13:18 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:13:18 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 20 October 2009
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FYI,

Regards,

Denise

Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication:

Open Access Income Models

http://www.arl.org/sparc/publisher/incomemodels/

Spread the sign: new web tool for the deaf

http://ec.europa.eu/education/news/news1371_en.htm

New Open Access website encourages exchange of research data

http://www.openaccess.nl/

Open J-Gate (scholarly journals)

http://www.openj-gate.com/Search/QuickSearch.aspx

A Publishing Odyssey

http://knol.google.com/k/ahmed-hindawi/2020-a-publishing-odyssey/35ebnhr
ldxfp4/

Accessibility. How do we ensure that creative content and work are
accessible to all?

http://www.perspectives.creativescotland.org.uk/discuss/accessibility

Open Educational Resources:

Otago Polytechnic's OER wiki

http://wikieducator.org/Otago_Polytechnic

Traditional Knowledge:

"Turning Point" At WIPO Pulls Traditional Knowledge Debate Out At
Eleventh Hour

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/10/03/%E2%80%9Cturning-point%E2%80%9
D-at-wipo-pulls-traditional-knowledge-debate-out-at-eleventh-hour

Intellectual Property:

Google Books is not a Library

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pamela-samuelson/google-books-is-not-a-lib
_b_317518.html

Teaching Copyright (USA)

http://www.teachingcopyright.org/

Regards

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

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