INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:

Copyright and Related Resources

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

Managing your Copyright for Authors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnrs7CECFjM

Understanding Rights Reversion- When, Why, & How to Regain Copyright and Make Your Book More Available

https://bit.ly/2sIgyRq

 

OPEN ACCESS, A2K & SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION:

The Fair Open Access Principles and Open Access Transparency

https://against-the-grain.com/2018/06/the-fair-open-access-principles-and-open-access-transparency/

Open Access Resources

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/openaccess_a2k_scholarly_communication

An examination of the effect of open versus paywalled access publication on the disseminative impact and citation count of publications in intensive care medicine and anesthesia

https://www.jccjournal.org/article/S0883-9441(18)30020-0/pdf

Sweden to open source digital science journals and boycotts Elsevier

https://goodereader.com/blog/digital-education/sweden-to-open-source-digital-science-journals-and-boycotts-elsevier

Europe’s open-access drive escalates as university stand-offs spread

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05191-0

AI Researchers Boycott Journal Over A Paywall That Many Other Journals Have

https://www.econotimes.com/AI-Researchers-Boycott-Journal-Over-A-Paywall-That-Many-Other-Journals-Have-1292895

North, South, and Open Access: Jeff MacKie-Mason responds from California

https://poynder.blogspot.co.za/2018/05/north-south-and-open-access-jeff-mackie.html

Opportunities and Barriers of Indian Open Access Repositories

http://irjlis.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2-IR460-81.pdf

After 24 Years, When Will Academic Culture Finally Shift?

http://bjoern.brembs.net/2018/05/after-24-years-when-will-academic-culture-finally-shift/

Institutional repositories: a bibliometric study of the social sciences citation index (SSCI)

https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1108/EL-09-2017-0192

All Scientific Research Funded by NASA Is Available For Free

https://www.sciencealert.com/all-nasa-science-research-available-free-online-pubspace

Getting Scientists Ready for Open Access: The Approaches of Forschungszentrum Jülich

http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/6/2/24

Open access to research data and publications: The unintended consequences

http://www.enrio.eu/news-activities/open-access-research-data-publications-unintended-consequences/

ArSciHub — A Sci-Hub Mirror on Arweave

https://medium.com/@12bits.blog/arscihub-a-sci-hub-mirror-on-arweave-f4f4c0044c5d

MedPix®-OA medical images

https://medpix.nlm.nih.gov

Arts and Culture Resources (CC)

https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/arts-culture-resources

 

OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES:

Brazilian Ministry of Education Publishes OER Ordinance

http://infojustice.org/archives/39988

Open Educational Resources

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

Open Educational Resources Could Finally Be On the Horizon

https://news.elearninginside.com/open-educational-resources-could-finally-be-on-the-horizon

SPARC State Policy Playbook 2

 https://sparcopen.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/SPARC-OER-State-Policy-Playbook-2.pdf

 

OPEN SCIENCE/OPEN DATA 

The future(s) of open science

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0306312718772086

Are the global goals doomed to fail without better open data?

http://news.trust.org/item/20180524172651-1sjk4/http://news.trust.org/item/20180524172651-1sjk4/

Sci-GaIA: Open Science to support African scientists and innovation

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/sci-gaia-open-science-support-african-scientists-and-innovation

Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge

https://planeta.com/oaweek18/

 

PREDATORY PUBLISHING PRACTICES:

Predatory journals exploit structural weaknesses in scholarly publishing

https://www.4open-sciences.org/articles/fopen/pdf/2018/01/fopen180001s.pdf

Resources on Predatory Publishers

https://libguides.wits.ac.za/openaccess_a2k_scholarly_communication/Predatory_Publishers