Copyright & A2K Issues - 14 February 2019

14 February 2019 · Denise Nicholson

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Intellectual Property:

South Africa: Copyright Amendment Bill - https://libguides.wits.ac.za/ld.php?content_id=45613747

Dates for debates in National Council of Provinces (NCoP) – 13 and 27 February and 6 and 27 March 2019.

Agreement reached on digital copyright rules (EU)

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20190212IPR26152/agreement-reached-on-digital-copyright-rules

Mixed Messages – Provisional Deal on Draft EU Copyright Directive Retains Key Flaws

https://www.ifla.org/node/91951

It’s Crunch Time For The Future Of Europe’s Artificial Intelligence – Europe Needs A Mandatory TDM Exception

http://eare.eu/crunch-time-tdm-copyright-trilogue/

https://www.futurity.org/1923-copyright-protections-1973062-2/

Predatory Publishing Practices:

Predatory Publishing Resources

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

Blacklisting or Whitelisting? Deterring Faculty in Developing Countries from Publishing in Substandard Journals

https://bit.ly/2S3BIUK

Identifying Deceptive Publishers: A Checklist

https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/sites/default/files/copyright/deceptivejournals_checklist_082018.pdf

Jeffrey Beall: South Asia has a worldwide reputation for being a center of predatory publishing

https://openinterview.org/2019/01/17/jaffrey-beall-south-asia-has-a-worldwide-reputation-for-being-a-center-of-predatory-publishing/

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Guide to Transitioning Journals to Open Access Publishing

https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/UC-OSC-Guide-to-Transitioning-Journals-to-OA.pdf

OpenAIRE’s response on the Implementation Guidelines of Plan S

https://www.openaire.eu/plan-s-a-european-open-access-mandate-2

Hindawi’s response to Plan S: be the catalyst for change you deserve to be

https://about.hindawi.com/blog/hindawis-response-to-plan-s-be-the-catalyst-for-change-you-deserve-to-be/

Turning principles into practice: EUA’s response to the Plan S Implementation Guidance

https://www.eua.eu/resources/publications/815:turning-principles-into-practice-eua%E2%80%99s-response-to-the-plan-s-implementation-guidance.html

Comment: ARL Feedback on Plan S Open Access Implementation Guidelines

https://www.arl.org/news/arl-news/4720-arl-comments-on-plan-s-open-access-implementation-guidelines#.XGPFd1wzb4Y

SPARC Europe’s response to the Guidance on the Implementation of Plan S

file:///C:/Users/00658018/Downloads/PlanS_Feb2019_SEFeedback%20(1).pdf

Critical watchpoints about Plan S implementation guidance | A contribution of the Open Science Committee

https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/critical-watchpoints-about-plan-s-implementation-guidance-a-contribution-of-the-open-science-committee/

Plagiarism Issues:

How AI Will Change Authorship and Plagiarism

https://bit.ly/2thMJYR

IFLA Conference 2019 – Grants:

https://2019.ifla.org/congress-information/conference-participation-grants/

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