... An exploratory survey by SURFdirect and Creative Commons Netherlands has shown that educators wish to be able to share educational and research material but that there are currently no appropriate guidelines. ...
Given SURFdirect’s requirement that the choice of licence must not create barriers to the future use of educational and research material, that it can be applied at both research universities and universities of applied sciences [hogescholen], and that this can in fact be done in 80% of cases, this report recommends using the most liberal Creative Commons licence for textual output ...
Licensing of raw research data forms an exception to this recommendation. At the moment, the Open Data licences that were reviewed are only available in draft form, meaning that it is not yet possible to make any definite recommendations regarding a specific licence. The definitive choice of a licence for licensing research data must in any case comply, however, with the “Science Commons Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data”. ...
... This supplement provides a graphical view of the licensing landscape within online education ... We find that a large proportion of educational sites are protected by “All Rights Reserved” copyright, including many sites that self-describe as “open,” which indicates a misconception of what it means to be an open resource. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 8/07/2009 08:19:00 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.
