Best Practices for Access to Images: Recommendations for Scholarly Use and Publishing, a draft version of the recommendations from Scholarly Publishing and the Issues of Cultural Heritage, Fair Use, reproduction fees and Copyrights (Berlin, January 11, 2008). Posted by André Gunthert on August 22, 2008 on Actualités de la Recherche en histoire visuelle.
... Scholars in the humanities, especially those concerned with images, face a bewildering array of restrictions. A confusing patchwork of policies regarding access to images, image reproduction, and cultural heritage citation is hindering new research and publication in the humanities.
For a variety of reasons, many museums, libraries, and image repositories restrict access to digital image collections. ...
To promote creative scholarship in the humanities and to foster a deeper understanding of cultural heritage, curators and scholars must work together in new ways. Put simply, what’s needed is a policy of open access to visual sources not covered by copyright. ...
Goals
To clarify terms of copyright, intellectual property, and physical ownership rights concerning objects in the public domain
To provide assistance to scholars negotiating access with cultural heritage repositories
To explain scholars’ needs to museums, libraries, and other repositories
To explore how institutions may allow scholars greater access to images
To establish practices that enable institutions, scholars, and publishers to form mutually beneficial relationships ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 8/27/2008 08:06:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
