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Intellectual Property
COVID-19 prompts calls for library-friendly copyright laws
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=2020112313502493
US: Archivists’ Victory over Overbroad Copyright Claim
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/11/25/us-archivists-victory-over-overbroad-copyright-claim
Copyright Limits and Learning: Lessons from The Covid-19 Quarantine
http://infojustice.org/archives/42825
Balanced Copyright in RCEP
http://infojustice.org/archives/42796
Wealthy countries block COVID-19 drugs rights waiver at WTO – sources
Over 100 civil society organisations call on the European Parliament to support COVID-19 WTO waiver proposal
15 Years and a Pandemic Later: Are We There Yet?
http://infojustice.org/archives/42806
A Doha Declaration for Covid-19? Professor Calls for Positive Agenda at WIPO SCCR
http://infojustice.org/archives/42808
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:
Good News: Academics Can Make Their Articles Published In Top Journal Nature Freely Available As Open Access. Bad News: They Must Pay $11,000 For Each One
How Controlled Digital Lending Makes an Entire College Library Available to Everyone Everywhere
The Potential Role of Open Data In Mitigating The COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges And Opportunities
https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20201029.94898/full/
New EU open peer review system stirs debate
https://sciencebusiness.net/framework-programmes/news/new-eu-open-peer-review-system-stirs-debate
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
Guided Open Access
https://www.nature.com/nature-research/open-access/guided-open-access
Gold Open Access research has greater societal impact as used more outside of academia
The State of Open Data 2020
https://digitalscience.figshare.com/articles/report/The_State_of_Open_Data_2020/13227875
New project to review progress on transformative Open Access agreements between library consortia and smaller independent publishers
Openness and Licensing
https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02986892/document
Creative Commons Certificate for Educators and Librarians
https://certificates.creativecommons.org/cccertedu/chapter/1-what-is-creative-commons/
Open Science Training Book
https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/content/open-science-training-handbook