Intellectual Property

Wits co-hosted OA Week Seminars - 2020 - Presentations on copyright, open source, predatory publishing, access issues, etc. 

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

Activists march to force signing of Copyright Amendment (South Africa) 

https://bit.ly/3oUsmvm

12 South African Civil Society Groups Demonstrate for Copyright Reform on UN International Human Rights Day

http://infojustice.org/archives/42852

WIPO’s missed opportunity to produce guidance on copyright exceptions hits education during pandemic

https://bit.ly/3mkVaeX

COVID-19 prompts calls for library-friendly copyright laws

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=2020112313502493

EIFL @WIPO: Fair Access, Preservation, No Lending Tax

https://www.eifl.net/blogs/eiflwipo-fair-access-preservation-no-lending-tax

Capturing Fair Use for the YouTube Generation

https://www.academia.edu/10315069/Capturing_Fair_Use_for_the_YouTube_Generation

USTR 2020 Special 301 Review

https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/intellectual-property/special-301/2020-special-301-review

American University Awarded $3.8 Million Grant from Arcadia Fund to Promote International Right to Research in Copyright Law

https://bit.ly/2WiimA0

House Passes Bill To Make Federal Court Records Free to the Public (US)

https://bit.ly/3oMOQ1k

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication

Information wants to be free

https://richardpoynder.co.uk/Information_Wants_to_be_Free.pdf

Pretty Soon There’ll Be Just One Big Book Publisher Left

https://newrepublic.com/article/160391/pretty-soon-therell-just-one-big-book-publisher-left

Researchers (in South Africa) decry ‘pay to publish’ system — but don’t want it to stop

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03483-y

Nature’s New Open Access Option: A Dinosaur Lurches Toward the Future

https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/handle/1805/24563

CERN Announces New Open Data Policy in Support of Open Science

https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/cern-announces-new-open-data-policy-in-support-of-open-science/

The transformative power of values-enacted scholarship

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-00647-z

Preprints in the public eye

https://asapbio.org/public

8 Pillars of Open Science

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/open-science/8-pillars-open-science

AfricArXiv - the African preprint repository

https://opencollective.com/africarxiv

IFLA Journal – October 2020

https://www.ifla.org/node/93508

Fiddle: a tool to combat publication bias by getting research out of the file drawer and into the scientific community 

https://portlandpress.com/clinsci/article-pdf/134/20/2729/896052/cs-2020-1125.pdf

Amazon under pressure to lift ban on e-book library sales

https://bit.ly/3gOuHoN

Changes to Journal Impact Factor Announced for 2021

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2020/12/07/jif-calculation-2021