COPYRIGHT & A2K ISSUES

Intellectual Property:

Global Congress on IP and Public Interest Adopts Principles for Negotiations

http://www.ip-watch.org/2014/01/06/global-congress-on-ip-and-public-interest-adopts-principles-for-negotiations/

Inventor of World Wide Web Says Copyright Alert System Hurts Democracy

http://www.digital-digest.com/news-63615-Inventor-of-World-Wide-Web-Says-Copyright-Alert-System-Hurts-Democracy.html

Writer, Doyle estate dispute copyright on Sherlock

http://news.yahoo.com/writer-doyle-estate-dispute-copyright-sherlock-061030069.html

What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2014? (USA)

http://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2014/pre-1976

Open Access, A2k & Scholarly Communication:

Open is Not Enough : Grey Literature in Institutional Repositories

http://archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/docs/00/90/88/62/PDF/GL_13_Schopfel_et_al_v5.1.pdf

Nature Publishing Group Announced OA Journal

http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/Digest/Nature-Publishing-Group-Announces-OA-Journal-93976.asp

Two Different Kinds of Open Access Buttons

http://tillje.wordpress.com/2013/12/29/two-different-kinds-of-open-access-buttons/

Caltech Adopts Open Access Policy for Scholarly Writing

http://campustechnology.com/articles/2014/01/06/caltech-adopts-open-access-policy-for-scholarly-writing.aspx?admgarea=news

SUN IR Guide

http://www.slideshare.net/hiltongibson/irguide

Open Access 20913 – a Year of Gaining Momentum

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/absolutely-maybe/2013/12/26/open-access-2013-a-year-of-gaining-momentum/

Arguments over Open Access

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/01/06/historians-clash-over-open-access-movement

Open Educational Resources:

180 MOOCS To Start the New Year

http://www.openculture.com/2014/01/180-moocs-to-start-the-new-year.html

Conference Alerts:

IFLA WLIC Conference

16-22 August 2014, Lyon, France

http://conference.ifla.org/ifla80

International Symposium on Philosophy of Library and Information Science

Ethics: Theory and Practice

3-5 September 3-5, Kastamonu, Turkey

http://www.kbbf2014.org/en/home_page

International Educational Technology Conference (IETC 2014)

3-5 September 2014 – Chicago, USA

http://www.iet-c.net/

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

Scholarly Communications Librarian

Scholarly Communications & Copyright Services Office

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

The Library, Private Bag X1, WITS, 2050, South Africa

Tel. No. + 27 11 717-1929 : Fax No. + 27 11 717-1946

Email Fax 0867653377

http://www.wits.ac.za/library

http://www.africanlii.org/blogs/denise

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/profile/copyright