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Intellectual Property:
A Damaging Delay: Libraries and Users in South Africa Forced to Wait Longer for Overdue Reforms
https://www.ifla.org/node/93169
How Washington and Brussels pressured South Africa to delay copyright reform
Transplanting Fair Use across the Globe: A Case Study Testing the Credibility of U.S. Opposition
https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/research/50/
Creative Destruction: Copyright's Fair Use Doctrine and the Moral Right of Integrity
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3367075
Unwritten Criticism: Audiovisual Forms of Critique as Fair Use
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3570881
Copyright Law as an Engine of Public Interest Protection
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3496452
All’s Fair in Love and War but Nothing’s Fair Use on YouTube: How YouTube Policies Favor Copyright Owners and Hinder Legal Fair Use
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3496452
Does Fair Use Matter? An Empirical Study of Music Cases
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3579383
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication
Differentiating Between Open Access and Open Educational Resource
https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/94422.2
EIFL endorses Open COVID Pledge
https://www.eifl.net/news/eifl-endorses-open-covid-pledge
Biologer: an open platform for collecting biodiversity data
https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/53014/
Rapid publications risk the integrity of science in the era of COVID-19
https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-020-01650-6
Publication models in scientific publishing: to open or not?
https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/college/journal/publication-models-scientific-publishing-open-or-not
Open Access Directory
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Main_Page
ASSAf Report on Grouped Peer Review of Scholarly Journals in Education
http://research.assaf.org.za/handle/20.500.11911/148
The costly prestige ranking of scholarly journal
https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/Ravne/article/view/5507/5290