[Copyrightanda2kinfo] 14 May 2012

[Denise Nicholson]

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Copyright & A2K Issues - 14 May 2012

 

Intellectual Property:

Long-Awaited Ruling in Copyright Case Mostly Favors Georgia State U.

http://chronicle.com/article/Long-Awaited-Ruling-in/131859/

Why We Should Stop Calling it DRM and Maybe Abandon it Altogether

http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2012/why-we-should-stop-calling-it-drm-and-maybe-abandon-it-altogether/

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access (Alma Swan)

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002158/215863e.pdf

In the UK Open Access to Publicly Funded Research as ‘Academic Spring’ Continues

http://bit.ly/L0Knxe 

 

Access and Persons with Disabilities

Scoop It: Inclusive Education (South Africa)

http://www.scoop.it/t/inclusive-education-south-africa

Scoop It : Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

http://www.scoop.it/t/convention-on-the-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities

 

Regards
Denise
 
Denise Nicholson (Mrs)
Copyright Services Librarian,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
The Library, Private Bag X1, WITS, 2050, South Africa
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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
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