Hi John, thanks for posting about this. We have our May newsletter coming
up soon. I wonder if you would be interested in writing a short summary of
the current state of university Open Access publishing which we could
include in it? It can be as short as you like.
John Lubbock
Communications Coordinator
Wikimedia UK
On 1 May 2017 at 14:22, John Levin <anterotesis(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dear list,
The subject of publishing postgrad / PhD these under open licenses came up
via the W.UK twitter account a few days ago:
Wouldn't it be amazing if all postgrad/PhD students were given the option
to publish dissertations/theses on Open Licenses? #OpenKnowledge
https://twitter.com/wikimediauk/status/857618743924592640
I think there's two issues here: first, if, how and when postgrad theses
are published, then second, under what license.
For the first, there's been debates recently about embargoing publication
etc. Eg:
http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/publishing-dissert
ation-online/51361
But that's another subject really.
For the second, I think there's no reason that prevents any thesis being
published under a free open license, save where there is use of copyrighted
materials. But I haven't found many unis stating this clearly.
Leeds is the only UK university I've found that overtly advocates CC
licenses:
https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/371/copyright_for/294/copyr
ight_for_phds/4
But this is on the sole basis of a few hours googling.
I'm a PhD at Sussex ATM, so will be looking more closely into their
arrangements next year.
John
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John Levin
http://www.anterotesis.com
http://twitter.com/anterotesis
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