Intellectual Property:
South Africa: Copyright Amendment Bill Draft No. 2, 2018 – Submissions
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Copyright_and_Related_Issues/SA_Copyright_Amendment_Bill_2018
Irony Alert: Disney (Yes, DISNEY!) Whines About 'Overzealous Copyright Holders'
Disney Gets Early Loss In Trademark, Copyright Suit Against Unlicensed Birthday Party Characters
Australia, Copyright, European Union, Legislative process - Future EU-Australia FTA and copyright: what could we expect in the IP chapter?
http://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2018/08/02/future-eu-australia-fta-copyright-expect-ip-chapter/
Collective Licensing:
IFLA Background Paper On Extended Collective Licensing
https://www.ifla.org/files/assets/clm/ecl_background_paper.pdf
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:
Same Question, Different World: Replicating an Open Access Research Impact Study
https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/16949/18655
Discussion paper: Help! I’m an author – get me out of here
https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:68a4577d-09d4-444a-b3d0-ec6130cf806d
How long would it take to buy Elsevier instead of APCs or subscriptions?
https://svpow.com/2018/08/15/__trashed/
As Academic Publishers Fight And Subvert Open Access, Preprints Offer An Alternative Approach For Sharing Knowledge Widely
Blockchain: the answer to scientific publishing’s problems
https://edtechnology.co.uk/Article/blockchain-the-answer-to-scientific-publishings-problems
Predatory Publishing Practices:
Caveat Emptor: Predatory Publishers, Rogue Journals, and the Potential Corruption of Addiction Science
https://www.jsad.com/doi/abs/10.15288/jsad.2018.79.509
Resources on Predatory Publishing Practices
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/ScholarlyCommunication/PredatoryPublishing
Open Research/Open Science:
Resources to help researchers practice good open science
What is Open Research?
https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/learning/best-practice-in-open-research/#/id/5abe17ffdd1827131b90e618
Open Research Data in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Bibliometric Study Using the Data Citation Index
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12109-016-9463-6
Guest Post: Challenges for Academics in the Global South — Resource Constraints, Institutional Issues, and Infrastructural Problems
Best Practice in Open Research
Access for Persons with Disabilities – Marrakesh Treaty:
On Track or Off the Rails? IFLA publishes an update current status of transposition of the Marrakesh Directive in Europe
https://www.ifla.org/node/58730?og=29
Towards Ratification Of The Marrakesh Treaty In The European Union Update
https://www.ifla.org/files/assets/clm/update_marrakesh_eu_june_2018.pdf