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.
Intellectual Property:
APC joins over 145 organisations to ask EU Council to stop a rushed EU copyright reform
Re-Create – Creators’ Coalition - resources
https://www.re-createza.org/documents/
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:
Scholarly Research Resources
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Scholarly_Research_Resources
Libraries Face a Future of Open Access
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/05/23/libraries-face-future-open-access/?informz=1
Disruptive publishing
http://occamstypewriter.org/trading-knowledge/2018/06/04/disruptive-publishing/
2018 top trends in academic libraries
https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/17001/18739
Help us, improving the indicators!
https://www.makingspeechestalk.com/ch/Open_Science_Monitor/
Questionable and Unethical Publishers and How DOAJ's Work Helps you to Avoid Them
Universal access to education is possible in this online age
Preprints: The What, The Why, The How.
https://cos.io/blog/preprints-what-why-how/
JISC - What do we do with your article processing charge data?
Open Data:
Open Refine – cleaning data
International Data Week
http://internationaldataweek.org/
Open Educational Resources (OER):
IFLA Responds to Consultation on Open Educational Resources
https://www.ifla.org/node/52095
Legal Deposit Resources:
Legal Deposit in SA
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/LegalDeposit/Copyright
Conference alerts:
SciDataCon 2018- ‘The Digital Frontiers of Global Science’
5-8 November, 2018 – Gaborone, Botswana
https://www.scidatacon.org/conference/IDW2018/conference_themes_and_scope
SciCOM Conference 2018 – “Science communication in a democratic South Africa: prospects and challenges”
5 – 7 November 2018, Stellenbosch University, South Africa