[Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 6 February 2012

[Denise Nicholson]

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Denise

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Intellectual Property:

 

TPP Follows ACTA, Twitter Calls It World War Web

http://www.webpronews.com/tpp-sopa-pipa-2012-02

 

Why Boycott Elsevier

http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2012/01/31/why-boycott-elsevier/

 

Elsevier Publishing Boycott Gathers Steam Among Academics

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/elsevier-publishing-boycott-gathers-steam-among-academics/35216

 

 

Protection of Information Bill:

 

Tribunal Seeks Chapter and Verse on Print Media

http://www.timeslive.co.za/opinion/editorials/2012/02/01/tribunal-seeks-chapter-and-verse-on-print-media

 

ANCs Media Tribunal – Parliament May Have Oversight

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/ANCs-media-tribunal-Parliament-may-have-oversight-20120131-2

 

Better Self-Policing, or Independent Media Regulator

http://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/better-self-policing-or-independent-media-regulator-1.1224784

 

Press Regulation Could Affect Future Digital Freedoms

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/Press-regulation-could-affect-future-digital-freedoms-20120131-2

 

Ways to Control Press Mooted

http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/ways-to-control-press-mooted-1.1224688

 

ANC’s Big Guns Aimed at Media

http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2012/02/01/anc-s-big-guns-aimed-at-media

 

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

 

Academic e-Books : Innovation and Transition

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/50486-academic-e-books-innovation-and-transition.html

 

Libraries save academics time, says new report

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2012/02/libraries.aspx

 

Tiptoeing toward the tipping point : peer to peer review

http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2012/02/opinion/barbara-fister/tiptoeing-toward-the-tipping-point-peer-to-peer-review/

 

Summary of contributions to the WSIS Forum 2012 open consultation

http://www.wsis-community.org/pg/file/read/449943/summary-of-contributions-to-the-wsis-forum-2012-open-consultation

 

SPARC Open Access Meeting, March 2012

http://sparc.arl.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=94

 

 

Mobile Technologies & Social Networking

 

LibGuide on Introduction to Mobile Technologies & Social Networking

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Mobile_Technologies

 

Social Networking: Open Is The New Closed

http://informationweek.com/news/telecom/unified_communications/232500811

 

Faculty of 1000 Introduced a Novel Open Access Publishing Venture

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/faculty-of-1000-introduces-a-novel-open-access-publishing-venture-f1000-research-2012-01-31

 

 

 

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

Copyright Services Librarian,

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: 0865533134

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

 

My LibGuides:

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Wits_Copyright_Guidelines

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Copyright_and_Related_Issues

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Scholarly_Research_Resources

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/openaccess_a2k_scholarly_communication

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/plagiarism_citation_and_referencing

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Resources_for_Blind_and_Visually-Impaired

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/deaf_and_hardofhearing

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/digitisation_preservation_and_digitalcuration

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/journalism_and_media-studies

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Open_Educational_Resources

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/ClimateChange

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/WIREDSPACE

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Mobile_Technologies

 

 

 

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