open licensing for biomed central
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Our goal:“Universal access to research
and education, full participation in culture.”
More free
More restrictive
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1. Free Licences
2. Projects
First Point Most publicly funded research is inaccessible to the public.
Journalists
Open Education by Berkay Sargın from The Noun ProjectCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licenceTeachers
Other Researchers
Students
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.”
Second point The cost of scholarly publishing has been rising steeply for decades
*From 1986-2007, subscription charges increased by 340%, four times the rate of inflation*
“Continuing these subscriptions on their current footing is financially untenable.”
Third point Researchers have not generally chosen to voluntarily make their research OA.
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
‘OA Kiwi’ by University of Auckland
CC-BY
“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?Distribution for educational purposes
Why use an open licence?Reuse beyond very limited 'Fair Dealing' exceptions or collecting society licences.
Why use an open licence?Republication and translation
Why use an open licence?If you don't, your work may not enter the commons for over 100 years...
…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
Four Licence Elements
Attribution
Non Commercial
No Derivatives
Share Alike
Six Licences
More free More restrictive
Layers
Licence symboll
Human readable
Lawyer readable
Go to creativecommons.org/choose
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cIWmV5nCF8o97Nrb8wYZWfQ97FG-4ylNuXezh2nlBBM/edit
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
Eleventh point You should plan *from the beginning* to share your data, w/a data management plan
Twelfth point Also, support open educational resources policy and practice
OERs are resources that are free to copy, adapt & reuse
Textbooks have increased in price by 812% from 1978 - 2013 (3x inflation)
Open Textbooks.
Open Textbooks.
Open Textbooks.
‘Opportunities’ by Giulia Forsythe CC-BY
https://flic.kr/p/eRCY15
Open Higher Education
Final point CC licensing is being adopted by organisations across New Zealand
CC in Schools
50-100 schools using Creative Commons to share resources
Geospatial data
National Imagery Photography by LINZ. Licensed CC-BY
data.linz.govt.nz/data/category/aerial-photos/
Open Arts and Culture
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Concrete by Jem Yoshioka. Licensed CC-BY-SA.
jemshed.com/comic/concrete/
‘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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