Copyright, Publishing, and Scholarship

Copyright Issues in a Digital Publishing World

Scholary Publication and Copyright in Networked Electronic Publishing

THE PuBLicATioN OF SCHOLARLY WORKS in a networked electronic environment presents many opportunities for solving some of the problems that currently exist in the print world. At the same time, copyright law, a form of legal protection developed primarily for printed works, has been used to create stumbling blocks both for faculty authors and their institutions. This has occurred because publish...

Publishing South African Scholarship in the Global Academic Community.

South Africa's academic publishing history has been profoundly influenced by its colonial heritage. This is reflected in the publication of Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society (later, the Royal Society of South Africa) from 1878. Although the Society and journal sought to promote original research about South Africa, it was modelled after the Royal Society in London and form...

Open Scholarship Practices Reshaping South Africa's Scholarly Publishing Roadmap

South African higher education institutions are the largest producers of research output on the African continent. Given this status, South African researchers have a moral obligation to share their research output with the rest of the continent via a medium that minimizes challenges of access; open scholarship is that medium. The majority of South African higher education libraries provide an ...

Copyright Protection for Electronic Publishing over Computer Networks

The increased availability of computers, printers and high-speed networks could make electronic publishing a reality. One of the major technical and economic challenges faced by electronic publishing is that of preventing individuals from easily copying and illegally distributing electronic documents. In this paper, we explore the use of cryptographic protocols to discourage the distribution of...