[open-science] New book chapter on Open Licensing in the context of academia (OER's)

Tue Jul 16 11:51:20 UTC 2013

Hi Ross,

Many thanks for the share.I recommend reading it to everyone on these
lists.  It is a very useful publication. Open access to (scientific)
information and open education are very closely linked.

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:31 PM, R Mounce OKF <ross.mounce at okfn.org> wrote:

> I've tweeted this out a few times now, but I thought I'd also share this
> with the mailing list.
>
> Thanks to this blog from the OA team at Oxford Uni:
>
> http://openaccess.ox.ac.uk/cc-by-what-does-it-mean-for-scholarly-articles-3/
>
> I've become aware of another published article explaining the history and
> practicalities of creative commons licences published in a recent (2013)
> book called: Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning: Open Educational
> Resources: Innovation, Research and Practice
> openly available from here:
> http://www.col.org/resources/publications/Pages/detail.aspx?PID=446
>
> I've cut the open book PDF down to just Norm Friesen's chapter 6
> 'Realising the Open in Open Educational Resources: Practical Concerns and
> Solutions' here if you want to read it right away...
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/757135/Friesen2013chap6.pdf
>
> (all perfectly legal thanks to the CC BY-SA licence the book is published
> under)
>
>
> It's great to have more third-party reviewed evidence in support of the
> use of CC BY for published academic materials whether OER or publications.
>
> Best,
>
> Ross
>
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