Please note: This is the Final newsletter on this website. You will still be able to access the Archives of this newsletter at: https://africanlii.org/content/copyright-and-a2k-issues
Denise Nicholson retires from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg on 31 December 2020. She will be consulting in future. Should you wish to contact her, her website from January 2021 will be http://www.scholarly.horizons.com. Should you wish to receive similar information in a new online newsletter, please email denise.nicholson@scholarlyhorizons.com with "Yes to new online newsletter" in the subject field.
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)
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
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
House Passes Bill To Make Federal Court Records Free to the Public (US)
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
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
Changes to Journal Impact Factor Announced for 2021
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2020/12/07/jif-calculation-2021