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.

Copyright Blog @UJ

Good news!
We have in the Library another blogger. Our Copyright officer Thapelo Mashishi has created a Copyright blog: http://copyrightuj.blogspot.com/. As he says in his welcome note "this publication will provide UJ academic staff with copyright information as it relates to the University and educational environment in general". Good luck Thapelo.

Direct link to the blog is available under "UJ Librarians Blogs"