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Open Access: How to avoid the Web of Predatory Publishers

Open Access: How to avoid the Web of Predatory Publishers Online

This presentation will provide an overview on open publishing for academics and potential postgraduate authors. It will give some useful tips and resources on where to publish and how to avoid being caught up in the 'web of predatory publishers'.

 

Presenter: Ms Denise Nicholson 

Denise Rosemary Nicholson (BA HDipLib (UNISA), LLM (WITS)) is currently the Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits).  She has served 38 years’ in various library posts, including 24 years in copyright, open access and scholarly matters. She is well-recognised internationally, regionally and in South Africa, for her advocacy and promotion of access to knowledge, open access and copyright awareness for many years

Since 1998, she has led the campaign for more balanced national copyright laws. In 1998 and 2000, she was Convenor of two copyright task teams, mandated by SAUVCA and the CTP, predecessors of Universities South Africa (USAf), that challenged and stopped two sets of proposals to amend the copyright law by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), which were too restrictive and had negative implications for the library and educational sectors.

Since 2014, she has actively contributed to the current amendment proces by engaging with the DTI, presenting at workshops, making various submissions on the Copyright Amendment Bill, presenting at the Parliamentary hearings in August 2017 and working with IFLA, ICA, EIFL, AFLIA, LIASA, CHELSA and many others to promote and support the Bill.

She has been an active member of various international and local copyright committees and projects. She served a number of terms on IFLA CLM and is currently and expert advisor for CLM, LIASA and USAf. She served a few terms on the Legal Deposit Committee and has recently been re-appointed for another term on NCLIS, both of which are advisory bodies to the Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture.

Date:
Wednesday 21 October 2020
Time:
14:00 - 15:00
Time Zone:
Central Africa Time (change)
Location:
Online Event
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  DLS Staff     Doctoral     Information Specialists     Masters     Post-Doctoral     Professional Staff     Researchers     Students  
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