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Intellectual Property:
Openness is a Human Rights Issue: Copyright Amendment Bill and Access to Educational Materials in South Africa
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
Copyright & Related Resources
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
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 – 10th 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
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/