Copyright & A2K Issues - 3 November 2020

3 November 2020 · 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. If you wish to unsubscribe, please email Denise.Nicholson@wits.ac.za . Please note : This information service will be closing down on Friday 11 December 2020, but you will still be able to access the Archives at: https://africanlii.org/content/copyright-and-a2k-issues

Intellectual Property:

Openness is a Human Rights Issue: Copyright Amendment Bill and Access to Educational Materials in South Africa

https://bit.ly/2TN5AYK

The Domestic Effect of South Africa's Treaty Obligations: The Right to Education and the Copyright Amendment Bill

https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/research/61/

Bridging the Differences between Copyright's Legal Traditions – The Emerging EC Fair Use Doctrine

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1723902

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

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Open Access Resources

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

COAR Community Framework for Good Practices in Repositories

https://www.coar-repositories.org/coar-community-framework-for-good-practices-in-repositories/

AfricArXiv – a preprint repository for African Research

https://info.africarxiv.org/

Free reusable content with Creative Commons licences

https://search.creativecommons.org/

Do open access journal articles experience a citation advantage? … an analysis by WoS subject areas

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-020-03734-9

Want a better h-index? – All you need to know about copyright and open access

https://www.sciencedirect.com/sdfe/reader/pii/S1877056820302735/pdf

Preprints in Medicine: Useful or Harmful?

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2020.579100/full

Why publish books open access?

https://crookedtimber.org/2020/10/23/why-publish-books-open-access/

The state of Altmetrics – 10^th anniversary celebration

https://www.altmetric.com/about-altmetrics/the-state-of-altmetrics/

Campaign to investigate the Academic eBook Market

https://academicebookinvestigation.org/

Open Science:

Open Science- Who is left behind?

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2020/10/23/open-science-who-is-left-behind/

Open Science (UNESCO)
https://en.unesco.org/science-sustainable-future/open-science

Open data sharing accelerates COVID-19 research

https://www.miragenews.com/open-data-sharing-accelerates-covid-19-research/

New SPARC Europe report out: Scoping the Open Science Infrastructure Landscape in Europe

https://bit.ly/3kV2caa

Predatory Publishing/Unethical Practices

Predatory Publishing Practices

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

Flaky Journals

http://flakyj.blogspot.com/2019/04/ocimum-scientific-publishers-osp-is.html

Factors to consider when dealing with conspiracy theories

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20201020153545783

5 Ways COVID-19 is Changing Academic Plagiarism

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2020/10/26/5-ways-covid-19-is-changing-academic-plagiarism/

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26 December 2020
Denise Nicholson

Please note : This is the Final newsletter on this website. You will still be able to access the Archives of this newsletter at: https://africanlii.org/content/copyright-and-a2k-issues Denise Nicholson retires from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg on 31 December 2020. She will be consulting in future. Should you wish to contact her, her website from January 2021 will be http://www.scholarly.horizons.com . Should you wish to receive similar information in a new online newsletter, please email denise.nicholson@scholarlyhorizons.com with " Yes to new online newsletter" in the subject field.

1 December 2020
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. If you wish to unsubscribe, please email Denise.Nicholson@wits.ac.za . Please note : This information service will be closing down on Friday 11 December 2020 , but you will still be able to access the Archives at: https://africanlii.org/content/copyright-and-a2k-issues

14 November 2020
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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. If you wish to unsubscribe, please email Denise.Nicholson@wits.ac.za . Please note : This information service will be closing down on Friday 11 December 2020 , but you will still be able to access the Archives at: https://africanlii.org/content/copyright-and-a2k-issues

14 August 2020
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)

13 July 2020
Denise Nicholson

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