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Open Education by Berkay Sargın from The Noun ProjectCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licenceTeachers
MIT Reader Stories
“I am in-between post-docs and I am having difficulty obtaining journal access” –Post-doc, US
“I don’t have access to many articles due to … sanctions. … I really appreciate this policy of MIT that helped me a lot.” – Researcher, Middle East
“For a small, publicly funded …media like the one I direct…academic knowledge… can be quite time-consuming and often very expensive.”
Of 1.1m scholarly articles: 80.4% could be OA after 1 year;
only 12% were.
Laakso, M. (2014). Green open access policies of scholarly journal publishers: a study of what, when and where self-archiving is allowed. Scientometrics. In press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-013-1205-3
Fourth point Consequently, hundreds of research funders and institutions are adopting OA policies & mandates
“Unless agreed otherwise... all refereed research articles and conference papers published in refereed proceedings should be submitted for deposit in the Research Commons.”
“Lincoln University will actively encourage all content produced by staff … to be openly shared and disseminated on the web.”
Sixth point We recommend that OA policies require immediate deposit (green OA) and strongly encourage CC licensing
Seventh point Why Creative CommonsC? Because open access only solves half the problem; copyright is still a major barrier.
Why use an open licence?Reuse beyond very limited 'Fair Dealing' exceptions or collecting society licences.
…which makes life very hard for libraries and archives who want to give
your work a second life.
Exhibit A:
Eighth point Creative Commons licences are clear, simple, free, legally robust and used by government.
Public DomainFew Restrictions
All Rights ReservedFew Freedoms
Some Rights ReservedRange of Licence Options
Ninth point How can I use CC?→ try to retain copyright→ if you pay APC, ensure it's CC→ support the passage of strong OA policies at your institution
Tenth point Cabinet has strong policy (NZGOAL) in support of open access and open licensing in the state sector
Geospatial data
National Imagery Photography by LINZ. Licensed CC-BY
data.linz.govt.nz/data/category/aerial-photos/
‘A Calm at a Mediterranean Port,’ 1770 by Claude-Joseph Vernet No known copyright
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los AngelesOpen Heritage
Massed troops at a New Zealand Division thanksgiving service, World War I. Ref: 1/2-013806-G. No known copyright.
http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22684353NLNZ; WW100
creativecommons.org.nznzcommons.org.nz@[email protected]@creativecommons.org.nzgroups.creativecommons.org.nz(we're also on Loomio)
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