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Academic Misconduct and Publishing Deception
- Citation Manipulation
- Resources on Citation Manipulation / Misconduct
- Watch out for cheats in citation game
- Predatory Publishing Resources
- Retraction Watch Report 2021
- Paper Mills: a threat to academic integrity
- The fight against fake-paper factories that churn out sham science
Intellectual Property
- SA Copyright Amendment Bill (CAB) under discussion in Parliament – 5 May 2021 (Recording)
- PC on Trade and Industry – Meeting on CAB report 5 May 2021
- PC on Trade and Industry – Meeting on CAB report 11 May 2021
- PC on Trade and Industry – Meeting on CAB report 14 May 2021 (YouTube)
- U.S. reverses stance, backs giving poorer countries access to COVID vaccine patents
- Educators, Libraries & Researchers Praise President Biden For Endorsing Waiver of All IP For Covid …
- Policy Brief: Third-Way Proposals from Big Pharma and the WTO are the Same-Old…
- Making International] Intellectual Property and Trade Regimes Work to Address the Health Response to Covid-19
- Too Small To Matter? On the Copyright Directive’s Bias In Favour Of Big Right-Holders
- Not the African Copyright Pirate Is Perverse, But the Situation…
- Ensuring Text and Data Mining: Remaining Issues with the EU Copyright Exceptions and Possible Ways Out
- Supreme Court Grants a Big Win for Copyright Fair Use
- The Government of Canada Launches Consultation on a Modern Copyright Framework for Online Intermediaries
- The Croatian proposal to implement the new education exception: it could be better
- Draft Copyright Bill will benefit creators, users of works (Singapore)
- IFLA Submits Comments on Canada, Singapore Copyright Reforms
- Registration for Extension: My Submission to the Copyright Term Extension Consultation
- The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 85: Céline Castets-Renard on Europe’s Plan to Regulate Artificial Intelligence
- Victory on ebook restrictions
Open Access & Publishing Issues
- New Open Access Business Models — What’s Needed to Make Them Work?
- Plan S Rights Retention Strategy, Copyright and the Academic Community – Part One
- Plan S Rights Retention Strategy, Copyright and the Academic Community – Part Two
- Emerging Questionable Publication Practices (slides & recording of webinar)
- Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
- NRF Statement on Predatory Journals and Deceptive Publishers
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