South Africa:  White Paper on Science, Technology & Innovation:

South Africa: New draft White Paper on Science, Technology and Innovation (10 September 2018)

30 days to comment on this document

https://bit.ly/2NEiR4F

https://www.dst.gov.za/images/2018/white-pate-on-STI-7_09-FINAL.pdf

 

Intellectual Property:

Click, copy, paste: Is our proposed copyright bill futureproof? (South Africa)

https://bit.ly/2MqKBVR

The Wordy World of Works (South Africa)

https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/citypress/20180909/281861529393742

'Catastrophic': EU passes controversial copyright law that could hit the likes of Google and Facebook

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/12/eu-lawmakers-pass-controversial-digital-copyright-law.html

Public Knowledge Responds to President Trump’s Outrageous Copyright Giveaway

https://bit.ly/2OhlNBj

EU approves controversial Copyright Directive, including internet ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’

https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/12/17849868/eu-internet-copyright-reform-article-11-13-approved

 

Access and Persons with Disabilities:

Etiquette when teaching or interacting with people with disabilities

https://libguides.wits.ac.za/Resources_for_Blind_and_Visually-Impaired/Etiquette

Strategic Policy Framework on Disability for Post-School Education and Training System (March 2018)

https://bit.ly/2MtkHAw

UK implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/uk-implementation-of-the-marrakesh-treaty

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Scientific publishing is a rip-off. We fund the research – it should be free

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/13/scientific-publishing-rip-off-taxpayers-fund-research

JISC gateway to text and data-mining – status update

https://bit.ly/2p1w2OW

How Open Is It?

https://sparcopen.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/HowOpenIsIt_English.pdf

The varieties of OA resistance: a response to Gareth J Johnson

https://insights.uksg.org/article/10.1629/uksg.434/

Open Access for Impact: How Michael Nielsen reached 3.5m readers

https://sparcopen.org/impact-story/open-access-impact-michael-nielsen-reached-3-5m-readers/

Digital government isn’t working in the developing world. Here’s why

https://bit.ly/2p5bKEc