Copyright & A2K Issues - 24 January 2019

24 January 2019 · 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:

Reimagining the academic library: What to do next. Review article

https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2019.ene.04

Israel: Copyright Law (Amendment No. 5), 2019

http://www.mondaq.com/x/770562/Copyright/Copyright+Law+Amendment+No+5+2019

Indian academics lead the world in publishing in fake journals – tarring the whole education sector

https://scroll.in/article/908230/indian-academics-lead-the-world-in-publishing-in-fake-journals-tarring-the-whole-education-sector

South Africa: High Online Counterfeit Goods Risk, Says Survey

http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?article_id=773528&email_access=on

The elusive gold mine? The finer details of Creative Commons licences – and why they really matter

https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.448/

Japan amends its copyright to meet future demands in AI and Big Data

http://eare.eu/japan-amends-tdm-exception-copyright/

Google forced to remove search results in EU 'right to be forgotten' case

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-reportedly-forced-to-remove-links-in-right-to-be-forgotten-case/

Open Science/Open Data:

Module 5 of the Open Science MOOC: An introduction to Open Research Software and Open Source

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fwGliIyAZs

AmeliCA vs Plan S: Same target, two different strategies to achieve Open Access

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kXe1UO4beE

ECSarXiv - a free preprint service for electrochemistry and solid state science and technology

https://ecsarxiv.org/

Scientific societies worry Plan S will make them shutter journals, slash services

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/01/scientific-societies-worry-plan-s-will-make-them-shutter-journals-slash-services

Recommendations on Open Science and Innovation

https://era.gv.at/object/document/4508

A Vision for Open Science

https://zenodo.org/record/1491303#.XEhAZFwzb4Z

Research data management (RDM) open training materials

https://zenodo.org/communities/dcc-rdm-training-materials/search?page=1&size=20

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Push for Open Access Publishing Might Leave Elsevier in the Dust

https://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/2019/01/push-for-open-access-publishing-might-leave-elsevier-in-the-dust

Open Access Resources

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

Open Digital Repositories

https://libguides.wits.ac.za/c.php?g=145291&p=953983

Voices from the South: Digital Arts and Humanities

https://books.aosis.co.za/index.php/ob/catalog/book/79

European Data Portal

https://www.europeandataportal.eu/elearning/en/#/id/co-01

Scholarly Communication/Publishing Resources

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

Scholarly Research Resources

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

Research Methodologies

https://libguides.wits.ac.za/c.php?g=145381&p=953599

Text and Data Mining

https://reform.communia-association.org/issue/text-and-data-mining/

Celebrating 30,000 Open Access Articles … PARs, RAPs, and Exploring Implications

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/01/22/celebrating-30000-open-access-articles/

Done DEAL: All German research articles in Wiley journals to be published open access under new transformative agreement

https://bit.ly/2RNWHzW

Academic-Led Journal Launch Checklist

https://s3.amazonaws.com/marketing.scholasticahq.com/Academic-Led+Journal+Launch+Checklist.pdf

The democratization of scientific publishing

https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-019-1249-1

Predatory Publishers:

Predatory publications in evidence syntheses

http://jmla.mlanet.org/ojs/jmla/article/view/491/767

Resources on Predatory Publishing Practices

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

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