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‘Twelve Years Later: Second ASSAf report on Research Publishing in and from South Africa (2018)’: Some issues arising
Responding to the extraordinary challenges facing publication in the digital age is the holistic view taken by…
South Africa’s Copyright Amendment Bill: Implications for Universities
‘Free to Reproduce, Free to Exploit’ was first published in The Conversation on 14 March 2019.1 The…
Political Economy of the Copyright and Performers Protection Bills: Implications for Universities
Sometimes, new legislation starts off well-intentioned, but then loses its way and is subjected to partisan constituency…
Important Letter to Authors
Dear Authors Last year there was much debate about the Copyright Amendment Bill (CAB) which had set…
Humanities, Citations and Currency: Hierarchies of Value and Enabled Recolonisation
Humanities, Citations and Currency: Hierarchies of Value and Enabled Recolonisation Abstract A comparative analysis examines the relevance…
Why the President must send the Copyright Amendment Bill back to Parliament
Opinion Piece by André Myburgh published by Mail & Guardian: 01 Nov 2019 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY The Copyright Act of…
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ASSAf Open Access Week 2019 Diary – Save the Dates! “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge” 21 – 25 October 2019, Everywhere
The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) is looking forward towards participating in Open Access Week,…
Online catalogue of members’ published books
ANFASA is excited to announce the call for details of your published works so that they can…
ASSAf Presidential Roundtable
Science, Scholarship and Society on: ‘Is Scholarly Publishing becoming Unaffordable?’ An Evidence-based Dialogue on the Implications of…
