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Copyright & A2K Issues - 21 February 2012

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Intellectual Property:

South Africa’s Intellectual Property Policy: process for public consultation?

http://www.fixthepatentlaws.org/?p=116

Open Letter to the Dept. of Trade & Industry

http://www.fixthepatentlaws.org/?p=118

IP Summit for Africa

http://www.fixthepatentlaws.org/?p=110

Digital Publisher Claims Right to Children’s Book

http://ph.omg.yahoo.com/news/digital-publisher-claims-childrens-book-022115281.html

Europe's ACTA Freak Out: How Hollywood Holds Back the Trade Agenda

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harold-feld/europes-acta-freak-out-ho_b_1284198.html

Issues Relating to Persons with Sensory Disabilities:

Canada’s bid to join TPP threatens access for blind, print disabled

http://infojustice.org/archives/8255

Traditional Knowledge:

IFLA Journal’s Editor’s Choice on Indigenous Knowledge papers

http://ifl.sagepub.com/cgi/collection/indigenousknowledge

Oriental medicine could be commodified under new agreement

http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/520059.html

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication

Work and Family Commons

http://workfamily.sas.upenn.edu/content/wfc

Will open access replace costly commercial publishing models?

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/article2910344.ece

Conference Alerts:

The Memory of the World in the Digital Age: Digitization and Preservation

26 to 28 September 2012 - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

http://bit.ly/xszs6u

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

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

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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

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