Creative Commons and Open Access

"Dice started its requirement analysis by collecting stories of issues and solutions about digital copyright management. To this purpose, the Fernfachhochschule Schweiz in Brig developed a short online survey."

"Though Open Access publication and Creative Commons licensing were not mentioned as issues by the people who participated in the DICE survey, several replies deal with germane issues: see cases THETA-MU in the "Per cominciare..." section of the handbook. The concern about protection expressed in THETA, IOTA and KAPPA is answered in Chapter B [check "B" in final version - calmansi calmansi just now] of this handbook: works such as those mentioned in these replies are automatically protected by copyright law once they have been expressed, and this protection also obtains for works expressed in digital form, and offered online. Open Access publishing and of Creative Commons licensing are particular uses of copyright law. As we shall see in what follows, they can help towards the communal sharing wished for by the author of LAMBDA, and the literature about their implementation can be of use in solving the conundrums of third parties' rights evoked by the author of MU. Open Access The main Swiss higher education authorities have signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access. This is a great progress for research. It also means that all publications by teachers and researchers - and all theses by students - of Swiss academic and higher education institutions must be made available in Open Access repositories, following the rules stated in by the Berlin Declaration: 1. The author(s) and right holder(s) of such contributions grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship (community standards, will continue to provide the mechanism for enforcement of proper attribution and responsible use of the published work, as they do now), as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use. 2. A complete

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"Misrepresentation One of the greatest concerns for authors who create works of opinion and place them under alternative copyright licences is that the licence will allow their opinions or arguments to be misrepresented. The Creative Commons Attribution-No-Derivatives licence appears to protect against misrepresentation by ensuring that the author's original expression cannot be altered with the production of derivative works. But I would argue that ND cannot protect against mis-representation any better than using a copyleft licence such as Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike, and that copyleft licences are also better for freedom of speech." (integrate in CC chapter of handbook?)

"Open Education Resources (OER) just got a big boost this weekend. Long time OER champion Dr. Catherine Casserly was just elected yesterday to the Board of Directors of Creative Commons to help provide further direction for the Open Education Resources movement worldwide. 2010-02-01-Casseerly4.jpg For those of you who never heard of OER, let me explain. In brief, OER is high quality learning materials that are freely available for use, remixing and redistribution; the name was first adopted by UNESCO in 2002. The push to further develop OER comes at a critical time when schools nationwide are seeking ways to improve learning. Creative Commons (CC) plays a major role in the OER movement as it provides the legal structure for sharing creative works and making them available for others to build upon and share. The CC organization has six licenses that allow creators to share their works easily."

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"This is the institutional repository of the University of Basel. It provides public access to electronic theses of the University. [feed] Atom [feed] RSS 1.0 [feed] RSS 2.0 Latest Additions View items added to the repository in the past week. Advanced Search Search the repository using a full range of fields. Use the search field at the top of the page for a quick search. Browse the repository by …Author …Faculty > Department > Research Group …Thesis (sorted by faculties) …Year "

"Here is the official video for the MIT OpenCourseWare 1800 event: Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds: A Milestone Celebration. The event celebrates the publishing of the 1800th course on MIT OpenCourseWare. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at http://ocw.mit.edu" with autocaps

"Welcome to the Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 4640 journals in the directory. Currently 1818 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 348555 articles are included in the DOAJ service. "

"PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. All our activities are guided by our core principles. Read more about our mission, our achievements, and our hopes for the future in PLoS' first annual Progress Report."

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archived at ( http://www.diigo.com/cached?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.snf.ch%2FE%2FNewsPool%2FPages%2Fnews_070809_OpenAccess.aspx ) "Open Access: New SNSF provisions to facilitate access \n\nResearch sponsored by public funding should be publicly accessible as far as possible, not least in the interests of science itself. To this end, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has issued provisions on Open access to scientific publications of projects sponsored by the SNSF. The provisions leave researchers the freedom to choose how to implement them."

"A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in an appropriate standard electronic format is deposited (and thus published) in at least one online repository using suitable technical standards (such as the Open Archive definitions) that is supported and maintained by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, inter operability, and long-term archiving. "

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"Empfehlungen der SAGW an ihre Mitgliedgesellschaften für die Umsetzung von Open Access Die SAGW unterstützt die Umsetzung von Open Access. Sie empfiehlt ihren Mitgliedgesellschaften und den in ihrem Kreis organisierten Forschenden, ihre Publikationen frei zugänglich zu machen. Zu diesem Zweck informiert Sie die Akademie an dieser Stelle über verschiedene Aspekte zu Open Access. Zahlreiche Universitäten verlangen heute, dass deren Angehörige publizierte Artikel auch auf den universitätseigenen Respositorien hinterlegen. Deshalb verfolgt die SAGW das Ziel, dass alle AutorInnen von Periodika, die von der Akademie subventioniert werden, das Recht haben, ihre Artikel Open Access zu publizieren. Sie ersucht deshalb ihre Gesellschaften, bei den Verlagen die entsprechenden Rechte für ihre AutorInnen einzuholen. Individuelle Informationen geben gerne die Sektionsverantwortlichen sowie Martine Stoffel. Informationen zu Open Access Aktuelle Position der SAGW zu Open Access Definitionen - Was bedeutet Open Access? Vorgehen für AutorInnen - Worauf muss ein/e AutorIn bei der Umsetzung von Open Access achten? Vorgehen für HerausgeberInnen -Worauf muss ein/e HerausgeberIn einer Zeitschrift bei der Umsetzung von Open Access achten? Rechtliche Aspekte - Was muss beim frei zugänglichen Publizieren beachtet werden? Technische Aspekte - Wie wird digital publiziert Finanzielle Aspekte - Einsparungen durch Open Access? Checkliste der wichtigsten Punkte bei der Umsetzung von Open Access Andere Institutionen Der Schweizerische Nationalfonds (SNF) verpflichtet seit September 2007 seine Beitragsempfängerinnen und Beitragsempfänger, ihre Publikationen mit Open Access zu veröffentlichen."

"The following list sets out some basic things that you should think about before you apply a Creative Commons license to your work. It is not an exhaustive list. If you have additional questions or concerns, feel free to post to one of our email discussion lists, to send us an email at info@creativecommons.org or send an email to one of our country project leads or obtain your own legal advice. "

"You need to check with your society. Currently, many of the collecting societies in Australia, Finland, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, Taiwan and the Netherlands take an assignment of rights (or in France what is called a "mandate" of rights that nonetheless has the same effect practically as an assignment) from you in present and future works (so that they effectively become the owner of these rights) and manage them for you. So if you are already a member of a collecting society in one of these jurisdictions, you may not be entitled to license your work yourself under a Creative Commons license because the necessary rights are not held by you but by the collecting society. Please also read the FAQ on the website of the Creative Commons project team for your jurisdiction for more information about this issue in your jurisdiction. "