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
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
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
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
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
Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge
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