[Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 12 January 2012

[Denise Nicholson]

FYI,

Regards

Denise

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Intellectual Property:

 

Breaking Technology

http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2012/01/05/breaking-technology/

 

FTPP's Other Copyright Term Extension: Protection of Sound Recordings Would Nearly Double in Duration (Canada)

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6229/125/

 

Sen. Wyden Challenges ACTA Constitutionality Again (US)

http://infojustice.org/archives/7031

 

Of Geese, Ribbons, and Creative Destruction: Moral Rights and Its Consequences

http://www.texaslrev.com/seealso/vol/90/responses/bird

 

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

 

Congress Considers Blocking Government’s Open Access Policy (US)

http://ww.psc.isr.umich.edu/pscinfoserv/?p=2265

 

Research Bought, Then Paid For

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/opinion/research-bought-then-paid-for.html?_r=1

 

Does pen access really threaten peer review?

http://bit.ly/w34enB

 

The Revolution isn’t just Digital

http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/features/01112012/revolution-isn-t-just-digital

 

Designing Green Open Access Self-Archiving Mandates (Stevan Harnad)

http://vimeo.com/31006564

 

Open Learning Resources:

 

North Carolina Learning Object Repository

http://www.nclor.org/nclorprod/access/hierarchy.do?topic=725c934a-d123-cfd5-4b8c-5d8ea4a9872d&page=1

 

Library Matters:

 

Confronting the Future: Strategic Visions for the 21st Century Public Library

http://www.ala.org/offices/sites/ala.org.offices/files/content/oitp/publications/policybriefs/confronting_the_futu.pdf

 

Redefining the Academic Library : Managing the Migration to Digital Information Services

http://www.educationadvisoryboard.com/pdf/23634-EAB-Redefining-the-Academic-Library.pdf

 

ACRL Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education

http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/standards/visualliteracy.pdf

 

 

Conference Alerts:

 

Handheld Librarian Online Conference VI

1-2 February 2012

http://www.handheldlibrarian.org/

 

Web 2.0 Conference : Past, Present and Future

6-8 March 2012, Kempton Park, South Africa

http://www.aoevents.co.za/Web%202.0%20brochure.pdf

 

 

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

 

 

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