Current Awareness Articles

Selected links to various materials received by e-mail (Aug-17 Sep 2008) from D. Nicholson, WITS, Copyright Services Librarian ( see below her e-mail, if you would like to subscribe to her e-mail alert):

WWW/References/Resources/Search Engines/Directories/Google

The biggest World Wide Web university’s database
http://www.ullbe.com/
Google to bring internet to Africa
http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-09-15-google-to-bring-internet-africa

WAN Communique on the Proposed Google-Yahoo Deal
http://www.wan-press.org/article17866.html

Google is digitizing newspapers
http://digitaleccentric.blogspot.com/2008/09/google-newspaper-digitization.html

World Wide Web Reference (very good, list with useful links)
http://www.wwwreference.info/
Student Research Resources (very good, list with links)
http://www.studentresearch.info/
Quick Reference Research (very good)
http://www.refdesk.com/instant.html

Alltheweb.com (Search Engine)
www.alltheweb.com

CompletePlanet (Deep Web Directory)
http://aip.completeplanet.com/index.jsp

The ‘Deep Web’: Surfacing Hidden Value
http://www.brightplanet.com/resources/details/deepweb.html

Searching Patents:
WIPO Patentscope
http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/en/
European Patent Office
http://ep.espacenet.com/advancedSearch?locale=en_ep
Google Patents
www.google.com/patents

Patent Information in Brief
http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/en/data/patent_information.html

Open Access/Open Source

- Institutional Repositories (IR)

Publishers allowing the depositing of their published version/PDF in Institutional Repositories
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/PDFandIR.html

The evolving impact of institutional repositories on reference librarians
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/ViewContentServlet;jsessionid=6F15A54DE4BC3EF612B233E19E33EE64?Filename=Published/EmeraldFullTextArticle/Articles/2400330305.html
3 articles on IR in developing countries
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/09/3-articles-on-irs-in-developing.html
World Archives Project
http://community.ancestry.com/wap/download.aspx

Open Access repositories begin to reap benefits for South African Science as CSIR research goes global http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/gray-area/2008/07/29/csir-research-goes-global

South African Libraries and Archives
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/rsalibs.html

How Open Repositories Enable Universities to Manage, Measure and Maximise their Research Assets http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/14990/

Seven Academic Open-Access Repositories Compared
http://www.icommons.org/articles/oa-academia-in-repose

Many publishers do allow authors to deposit their works in institutional repositories. See: Sherpa/Romeo - http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.html

Directory of Open Access Repositories
http://www.opendoar.org/

- Open Access
Open Educational Resources
http://deoracle.org/online-pedagogy/emerging-technologies/open-educational-resources.html

Open Access – What is it?
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/scholcomm/openaccess.html

Directory of Open Access Journal growth rate nearly doubles in the past year
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2008/08/doaj-growth-rate-nearly-doubles-in-past.html
Open Access anxiety in the publish or perish world
http://www.plos.org/cms/node/397

Open, closed or ajar? Content access and interactions
http://interactions.acm.org/content/?p=1147

Newfound Press Business Plan, 2008-2011 (Open Access publishing)
http://www.lib.utk.edu/newfoundpress/nfpbusinessplan.pdf
Open Access – FAQs
http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au:9080/vital/access/manager/Faqoamq

Open Access in South Africa
http://www.sivulile.org/

Open Access: Good for Business!
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2005/09/open-access-good-for-business.html

Open access and the last-mile problem for knowledge
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/07-02-08.htm#lastmile

Scholarly Publishing

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/toc.htm

CreateChange – Digital Scholarship
http://www.createchange.org/
Researchers benefit from Sharing
http://www.createchange.org/modes/researchers.shtml
Bringing down the barriers (digital scholarship)
http://www.createchange.org/modes/bringing.shtml

Increasing Impact of Scholarly Journal Articles: Practical Strategies Librarians Can Share
http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/content/v09n01/mullen_l01.html

Peer reviewing: privilege and responsibility
http://www.textjournal.com.au/april08/johnston_krauth.htm

Scholarly Electronic Publishing weblog
http://digital-scholarship.org/sepw2/2008/08/05/scholarly-electronic-publishing-weblog-august-5-2008/

Library/Faculty

Ithaka’s 2008 report on its 2006 faculty and librarian surveys
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/08/ithaka-2008-report-on-its-2006-faculty.html
http://www.ithaka.org/research/faculty-and-librarian-surveys

World Library & Information Congress (IFLA) – Quebec 2008 - Papers
http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/Programme2008.htm

Law/ Intellectual Property/ Copyright

Laws for Using Photos You Take at Your Library ((USA)
http://www.infotoday.com/mls/sep08/Carson.shtml

Access To Knowledge Conference Begins Addressing New Challenges With New Ideas
http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1214

eIFL Handbook on Copyright and related issues
http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-ip/issues/eifl-handbook-on

(ACA2K) African Copyright and Access to Knowledge Project Blog
http://www.aca2k.org/index.php?option=com_idoblog&view=idoblog&Itemid=69

The impact of copyright on access to public information in African countries: a perspective from Uganda and South Africa
http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/papers/087-Nicholson_Kawooya-en.pdf

African Copyright and Access to Knowledge Alliance
www.aca2k.org (see Blog)

If you know of any persons who may benefit from this information, please ask them to email Denise.Nicholson@wits.ac.za with their name, name of institution/organization and contact details.