Copyright & A2K Issues - 8 November 2018

14 November 2018 · Denise Nicholson

This is a free online international Information Service covering various topics, including copyright, plagiarism and other IP matters, Open Access, open publishing, open learning resources, institutional repositories, scholarly communication, digitization and library matters, mobile technologies, issues affecting access to knowledge (A2K), particularly in developing countries; WTO and WIPO treaties and matters; Free Trade Agreements and TRIPS Plus; useful websites, conference alerts, etc. Archives are available at: http://www.africanlii.org/content/copyright-a2k-information . If you would like to subscribe to, or unsubscribe from, this newsletter, please do so at: http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/copyrightanda2kinfo or email Denise.Nicholson@wits.ac.za only (N.B. PLEASE DO NOT SEND TO WHOLE MAILING LIST)

Intellectual Property:

Decolonised Education Means Giving Poor Students Fair Use Of Textbooks

http://www.thedailyvox.co.za/decolonised-education-means-giving-poor-students-fair-use-of-textbooks-thabiso-bhengu/

https://www.law.com/therecorder/2018/10/31/copyright-office-broadens-dmca-exemption-for-filmmakers/?slreturn=20181006015906

U.S. Copyright Office Amends Act in Favor of Open 3d Printer Materials

https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/u-s-copyright-office-amends-act-in-favor-of-open-3d-printer-materials-142432/

The EU's Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Commons News

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/eus-link-tax-will-kill-open-access-and-creative-commons-news

Embargo Headaches: When Funders and Publishers Have Incompatible Policies

https://biblio.unibe.ch/web-apps/wkblog/2018/11/embargo_headaches/

Open Access Books:

Wits University Press announces Open Access Programme

http://witspress.co.za/news/open-access-books-from-wits-university-press/

http://www.oapen.org/search?publisher=Wits%20University%20Press&smode=simple&style=

Open access monographs: perspectives from university presses

https://wonkhe.com/blogs/open-access-monographs-perspectives-from-university-presses/

The Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks (So Far)

https://press.rebus.community/the-rebus-guide-to-publishing-open-textbooks/chapter/building-a-team-overview/Building a Trusted Framework for Coordinating OA Monograph Usage Data

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PjeRaz6XRvOiGY2GsmY7J5LHUqwFiUI9v-iC9ZsZaj0/edit#

Human Physiology Students’ Perceptions of etextbooks: Towards Open Access as an Alternative to Traditional Textbooks

https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/CAL/article/view/12650

Gitenberg OA Books

https://www.gitenberg.org/

How to attach a Creative Commons Licence to your Paper

https://libguides.wits.ac.za/Copyright_and_Related_Issues/CreativeCommons

Open Science/Open Data:

Reproducibility and Open Science

https://zenodo.org/record/1464853#.W9_nW5MzbDc

Harvard Converts Millions of Legal Document into Open Data

http://www.govtech.com/analytics/Harvard-Converts-Millions-of-Legal-Documents-into-Open-Data.html

New database for medieval literature launched

https://www.uu.se/en/news-media/news/article/?id=11598&area=2,6,16,26&typ=artikel&lang=en

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