Copyright & A2K Issues - 7 December 2018

7 December 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:

dti: The National Assembly passed the Copyright Amendment Bill, the Performers’ Protection Amendment Bill and the Gambling Amendment Bill

https://bit.ly/2Swg8sF

http://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/copyright-amendment-bill-passed/

SA Copyright Amendment Bill - resources

https://www.re-createza.org/

What is Fair Use and What are its Benefits?

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

Defending Fair Use In South Africa

http://www.ip-watch.org/2018/12/04/defending-fair-use-south-africa/

Promoting Education Rights In South African Copyright Reform

http://www.ip-watch.org/2018/12/04/putting-balance-back-copyright-fair-use-south-african-copyright-reform/

Towards WIPO Regional Seminars On Copyright Exceptions: Looking Out For Users

http://www.ip-watch.org/2018/12/06/towards-wipo-regional-seminars-copyright-exceptions-looking-users/

Confused about copyright? Assessing Researchers’ Comprehension of Copyright Transfer Agreements

https://jlsc-pub.org/articles/abstract/10.7710/2162-3309.2253/

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Researchers sign petition backing plans to end paywalls

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07632-2

China backs bold plan to tear down journal paywalls

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07659-5

Aligning strategies to enable Open Access

https://www.mpg.de/12553198/14th-berlin-open-access-conference/

Altruism or Self-Interest? Exploring the Motivations of Open Access Authors

https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/17396

Open Science:

Launch of the future African Open Science Platform during SFSA2018, 12-14 Dec. 2018

http://africanopenscience.org.za/?p=1071

How to find Open Research Data

https://www.bihealth.org/de/quest-center/blog/artikel/?L=0&cHash=634b24b4b048e87cee92489241012897&tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=1748

European Science Cloud is online: Secure virtual environment for research data

https://www.eu2018.at/latest-news/news/11-26-European-Science-Cloud-goes-online--Secure-virtual-environment-for-research-data.html

Open Science in Africa – Challenges, Opportunities and Perspectives

https://osf.io/preprints/africarxiv/m5kuc/

Open Synthesis: on the need for evidence synthesis to embrace Open Science

https://environmentalevidencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13750-018-0140-4

European funders detail their open-access plan

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6418/983/

Supporting the Proliferation of Data-Sharing Scholars in the Research Ecosystem

https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol7/iss2/6/

Open Educational Resources:

OER: A Field Guide for Academic Librarians

https://commons.pacificu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=pup

OERs

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

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