Intellectual Property:
South Africa Warns Trump About Premature Trade Review
The Effect of Copyright Term Length on South African Book Markets (with Reference to the Google Book Project)
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3480127
Articles, letters & submissions related to USTR review of South African GPS agreements
https://libguides.wits.ac.za/Copyright_and_Related_Issues/tradeissues
Questions and Answers about the SA Copyright Amendment Bill (updated Jan 2020)
https://libguides.wits.ac.za/Copyright_and_Related_Issues/FAQs_CAB
WTO TRIPS Council: South Africa’s submission on The WTO TRIPS Agreement and the Copyright Three-Step Test
https://www.keionline.org/32208
Brexit saves UK from the terrible EU copyright laws it helped create
Article 17: Both French and Dutch Implementation Proposals Lack Key User Rights Safeguards
http://infojustice.org/archives/41942
U.S. Appellate Court Enforces Cc’s Interpretation Of Noncommercial
http://infojustice.org/archives/41938
Pushing on the Paywalls: Extending Licensed Resource Access to External Partners to Enhance Collaborative Research
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0361526X.2020.1715742
Predatory Publishing Practices:
Beallslist.Net
Predatory publishing and predatory journals: a critical review and proposed research agenda for higher education
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0309877X.2019.1695762
Predatory publishing resources
Predatory Publishing Practices: Is There Life After Beall’s List?
https://www.libres-ejournal.info/2565/
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:
Discovering millions of datasets on the web - DataSet
https://www.blog.google/products/search/discovering-millions-datasets-web/
Let Authors Choose How to Pay for Peer Review and Publication
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2020/01/13/let-authors-choose-how-to-pay-for-publication/
Is Sci-Hub Safe?
Scholarly Publishers Are Happy to Give Stuff Away If Someone Pays Them
The Machine as author -
http://infojustice.org/archives/41935
The 2019 Altmetric Top 100
https://www.altmetric.com/top100/2019/
Springer Nature and OpenAIRE collaborate to further Open Science
https://www.openaire.eu/springer-nature-and-openaire-collaborate-to-further-open-science
'Access is a human right': how deaf and disabled people are transforming theatre
Cambridge University Press strikes first major read and publish agreement in Japan
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/cup-cup012720.php
The ground-breaking subscribe-to-open pilot – Berghahn Open Anthro – will flip thirteen anthropology journals to open access in 2020
https://librarytechnology.org/pr/24872
Access for patients – and other ways to get Elsevier articles without a subscription
What Does Open Research Mean To You?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2PAqhlbGc0&feature=emb_title
Open Scholarship Knowledge Base
https://cos.io/our-communities/open-scholarship-knowledge-base/
Growth of African Research, Equity in Access and Dissemination of African content - the Catalysts (PPT)
Conferences/Summits : Call for Papers:
2020 Creative Commons Global Summit
14-16 May, 2020 - Lisbon, Portugal
https://summit.creativecommons.org/
IFLA OT Section – International Symposium on Robotics and AI in Libraries
8-10 June 2020 - Future Africa Campus, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Abstracts via https://www.up.ac.za/robotics_ai2020/conference/register
More information at https://www.up.ac.za/robotics_ai2020/article/2850408/instructions
Conference: Open Repositories
1-4 June 2020 - Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa