Suggested Readings

Many of  the Suggested Reading Materials Will Be Available in Arabic Soon on “Translated Materials”

 

QUNO & QIAP Online Publications

Background Papers

1. Patents, Trade & Development.(English) & (Arabic)
2. Patents, Trade & Food.(English)& (Arabic)
3. Patents, Trade & Health. (English)& (Arabic)
4. Patents & Quaker Action. (English)& (Arabic)

Issue Papers

• Rethinking innovation, development and intellectual property in the UN: WIPO and beyond (English) , SisuleF. Musungu, September 2005.
• Multilateral Agreements and a TRIPS plus World: The World Intellectual Property Organisation - WIPO  (English) (Arabic) Sisule Musungu & Graham Dutfield, December 2003.
• Special & Differential Treatment of Developing Countries in TRIPS  (English) Constantine Michalopoulos, October 2003.

Occasional Papers

•  Assessing the Development Impacts of Intellectual Property Negotiations, Proposals, Reforms and Agreements: A concept note, Graham Dutfield, February 2006 (English) & (Arabic).
• Assessing the Development Impacts of Intellectual Property Negotiations, Proposals, Reforms and Agreements: A concept note (English) ,Graham Dutfield, February 2006.
• Thinking Aloud in Disclosure of Origin (English) ,Graham Dutfield, October 2005.
• Disclosure of origin and Access and Benefit Sharing: The special case of seeds for food and agriculture (English) ,Walter Smolders, October 2005.
• The Politics and Practicalities of a Disclosure of Origin Obligation(English), Carlos Correa, January 2005.
• Harmonisation or Differentiation in Intellectual Property Protection? The Lessons of History (English), Graham Dutfield and Uma Suthersanen, August 2004.
• The Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health and the Contradictory Trend in Bilateral and Regional Free Trade Agreements (English),Frederick Abbott, April 2004. 
• Key Issues for the relationship between the Convention on  Biological Diversity &  the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture(English)

 

- The Future Control of  Food   A Guide to International Negotiations and Rules on Intellectual Property, Biodiversity and Food Security.  Edited by Geoff Tansey and Tasmin Rajotte

 

eIFL Online Publications

• eIFL Handbook on Copyright and Related Issues for Libraries (Arabic)
• World Book and Copyright Day 2009
• Draft Law on Copyright

EBLIDA Online Publications

• Licensing Digital Resources - How to avoid the legal pitfalls? (Arabic)

Institute for Information Law University of Amsterdam

• Conceiving An International Instrument On Limitations And Exceptions To Copyright (English) & (Arabic)

Commission for Intellectual Property Rights

• The Final Report  (English) & (Arabic)

Library of Congress publications

• International Study on the Impact of Copyright Law on Digital Preservation

WIPO Free Publications

• Understanding Copyright and Related Rights
• WIPO Standards and Patents for  WIPO SCP (23-27 March 2009)
• WIPO Study on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives
• Study on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for the Visually Impaired
• WIPO Analytical Document on Limitations and Exceptions for WIPO SCCR (14 – 18 December, 2009)
• WIPO Study on Limitations and Exceptions to Copyright and Related Rights for the Benefit of Education in Africa for WIPO SCCR (14 - 18 December, 2009) (in French)
• WIPO Study on the Copyright Exceptions for the Benefit of Educational Activities for Asia and Australia for WIPO SCCR (14 – 18 December, 2009)

Association of Research Libraries, Resources

• Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication
• Results of an investigation conducted by Ithaka for the Association of Research Libraries
• The Google Library Project Settlement: ARL and ALA Release Guide for Libraries

Digital Scholarship 

• Institutional Repositories: Tout de Suit
• ARL Publishes Author Addenda, SPEC Kit 310 

Third world network's papers and reports

• The Global IP Upward Ratchet, Anti-Counterfeiting and Piracy
• Action needs to expand limitations and exceptions to copyright law

EDUCAUSE

IFLA

• The Gowers Review of IP, extending the UK’s copyright exceptions
• The IFLA/FAIFE World Report 2009
• Libraries - A voyage of discovery
• The IFLA Position on Public Lending Right

Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research

• Research Repositories in Europe: the 2008 DRIVER Inventory study 
• Against Intellectual Monopoly 

Bloomsbury Academic 

Association of College and Research Libraries

• ACRL 2009 Strategic Thinking Guide for Academic Librarians in the New Economy

Publishing Research Consortium

• Publishing Research Consortium Projects
• Open Access: Whom Would You Back?

KEI

• WBU Proposal for a Treaty for Blind, Visually Impaired and other Reading Disabled Persons 

SPARC

• CAMPUS-BASED PUBLISHING PARTNERSHIPS: A GUIDE TO CRITICAL ISSUES
• Income Models for Supporting Open Access

Access to Knowledge in Brazil 

Traditional Knowledge

LIBRES

• Digital Rights Management and Access to Information: a developing country’s perspective

Commonwealth of Learning

• Introducing Copyright

SMA

• Exploring New Frontiers of Electronic Publishing in Biomedical Science

bepress

• Making the Case for an Institutional Repository to Your Provost

Mark Ware 

• Web 2.0 and Scholarly Communication

Knowledge Ecology Studies

• The “Right to Read” – Why a WIPO Treaty for Print Disabled People?

Association of College & Research Libraries

• Leading Change in the System of Scholarly Communication: A Case Study of Engaging Liaison Librarians for Outreach to Faculty 

JISC

• THE SKILLS, ROLE AND CAREER STRUCTURE OF DATA SCIENTISTS AND CURATORS: AN ASSESSMENT OF CURRENT PRACTICE AND FUTURE NEEDS
• A Landscape Study of Shared Infrastructure Services in the Australian Academic Sector
• Shared Infrastructure Services Landscape Study A survey of the use of Web 2.0 tools and services in the UK HE sector
•  In from the Cold: An assessment of the scope of ‘Orphan Works’ and its impact on the delivery of services to the public

UR Research

• The Next Generation of Academics

World Health Organization (WHO)

• Prevention of avoidable blindness and visual impairment

TACD 

• TACD: Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue

Victoria University Institutional Repository (VUIR)

• Research Communication Costs in Australia, Opportunities and Benefits

IDRC Books

• KNOWLEDGE TO POLICY: Making the Most of Development Research 

Academic Commons

• SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LAW REVIEW

Surf Foundation

• Reuse of material in the context of education and research

IP Watch

• How To Avert The Coming Drug Access Crisis
• The Tower and The Cloud
• Access to Knowledge in Brazil: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development
• Shuttleworth Foundation Working Paper on Intellectual Property(Limitations and Exceptions) 

The Public Domain

• The Public Domain

IQsensato

• Geographical Indications & Socio-Economic Development
• New Voises in Research

Digital Library of International Development Research Centre

• Issues and challenges to the development of open access institutional repositories in academic and research institutions in Nigeria 

American Association of Law Libraries

• Legal Scholarship, Electronic Publishing, and Open Access: Transformation or Steadfast Stagnation?

IIPA’s 2009 Special 301 Report on Copyright and Enforcement

Libri: International Journal of Libraries and Information Services

• Sharing Information Resources:a Study of School Clusters from Rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Creative Commons - CC Learn Reports: What status for “open”? An examination of the licensing policies of open educational organizations and projects

• Creative Commons Licences
• What is Creative Commons?

Traditional Knowledge Digital Library

• Bio-piracy of Traditional Knowledge

International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)

• Innovation and Technology Transfer to Address Climate Change
• Overcoming the Impasse on Intellectual Property and Climate Change at the UNFCCC: A Way Forward
• Intellectual Property Rights and International Technology Transfer to Address Climate Change: Risks, Opportunities and Policy Options

Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative

• Writing Effective Public Policy Papers: A Guide To Policy Advisers in Central and Eastern Europe

Open Medicine

• The chain of communication in health science: from researcher to health worker through open access

Electronic Privacy Information Center

• Google Books Settlement and Privacy

University of Edinburgh Law School 

• Book: SCRIPTed - A Journal of Law, Technology & Society

RIS - Research & Information System for Developing Countries

• Climate Change, Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Rights

ATLA - American Theological Library Association

• Theological Librarianship: An Online Journal of the American Theological Library Association

Academy of Science of South Africa

• Scholarly Books: Their Production, Use and Evaluation in South Africa Today

University Van Amsterdam Digital Academic Repository

• The European Repository Landscape 2008: Inventory of Digital Repositories for Research Output in the EU 
• Enhanced Publications: Linking Publications and Research Data in Digital Repositories
• Emerging Standards for Enhanced Publications and Repository Technology: Survey on Technology

Cornell University Library

• Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums

Knowledge Exchange

• Knowledge Exchange Briefing Paper On Journal Business Models

Social Science Research Network e-Library

• Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums

Australian Flexible Learning Framework

• Quick Reference Guide to Finding Creative Commons Material

The Copy/South Research Group

• An alternative Primer on National and International Copyright Law in the Global South: Eighteen Questions and Answers

Information Society Project At Yale Law School

• Access to Knowledge in South Africa: Part of the Access to Knowledge Research Series

The Fourth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF4)

• Copyright - Are people with sensory-disabilities getting a fair deal?

Knowledge Ecology International

• KEI Proposal: A WTO Agreement on The Supply of Knowledge as a Global Public Good
• A proposal for a WTO Agreement on the Supply of Global Public Goods
• Statement of Principles on Copyright Exceptions and Limitations for Libraries

Social Science Research Network e-Library

• Comparing Repository Types: Challenges and Barriers for Subject-Based Repositories, Research Repositories, National Repository Systems and Institutional Repositories in Serving Scholarly Communication
• Traditional Knowledge and the Fight for the Public Domain
• Google Book Search and the Future of Books in Cyberspace

Digital Scholarship

• Author's Rights, Tout de Suite

African Copyright and Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) Project

• Research Findings in Egypt
• Executive Policy Brief (June 2009)

Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)

• A Comparative Review of Research Assessment Regimes in Five Countries and the Role of Libraries in the Research Assessment Process

Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation

• Arab Knowledge Report 2009 -Towards Productive Intercommunication for Knowledge (English)
• Arab Knowledge Report 2009 -Towards Productive Intercommunication for Knowledge (Arabic)

New Media Consortium

• The Horizon Report 2010 Edition

Federal Trade Commission

• To Promote Innovation: The Proper Balance of Competition and Patent Law and Policy

Culturelink Publications

• Imagine There's No Copyright and No Cultural Conglomerates Too

IDLO Publications

• Imagining A Traditional Knowledge Commons
• Raika Bio-Cultural Protocol

Computer & Communications Industry Association

• Fair use in the U.S. economy

UNESCO

• Access to information and knowledge, Freedom of Expression, Privacy, and Ethics on a Global Internet
• Introduction to Open Access  

Innovation Economics

• The 2015 Intellectual Property and Economic Growth Index: Measuring the Impact of Exceptions and Limitations in Copyright on Growth, Jobs and Prosperity 

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

• Education at a Glance Interim Report: Update of Employment and Educational Attainment Indicators

 

Authors Alliance

• UNDERSTANDING OPEN ACCESS