[Wikimediauk-l] CC licenses for PhD theses

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-dissertation-online/51… 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/copyright_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 -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis