Creative Commons Aotearoa NZ Open Access Week 2013

Let’s begin with the obvious:The Situation Today

1. The internet and digital technologies enable greater distribution and

reuse of research

2. Most publicly funded research cannot be accessed and reused by

the public

3. Libraries are struggling. From 1986-2007, subscription charges

increased by 340%, four times the rate of inflation

4. Higher education is struggling to make the case for more public

funding

5. Open Access has emerged as the most realistic way to justify public

expenditure on research

Open Access policies from public funding bodies in all major English-

speaking countries + EU

(but not New Zealand, yet)

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OK, but what does ‘open’ even mean?

1.Access:

2. Technical:

3. Copyright:

1.Access: Green and Gold

2. Technical: Open Formats

3. Copyright: Open Licensing

1.Access

1.Access

Green: Deposit post-print, peer-reviewed article in an institutional or disciplinary repository

1.Access

Green: Deposit post-print, peer-reviewed article in an institutional or disciplinary repository

Gold: Article is made freely available by publisher (sometimes after APC charge)

2. Technical

2. Technical

Use of open formats, to allow others to share, adapt and reuse research (including data)

3. Copyright

3. Copyright

Use of open licensing, to allow others to share, adapt and reuse research (including data)

OK, but why isn’t access enough?

What is Copyright?All Rights Reserved copyright

restricts many common & essential uses of research

What is Copyright?

Distribution to students, colleagues, journalists, businesses.

What is Copyright?

Distribution to students, colleagues, journalists, businesses.

Reuse by other researchers, bloggers, journalists, publishers.

What is Copyright?

Distribution to students, colleagues, journalists, businesses.

Reuse by other researchers, bloggers, journalists, publishers.

Republication to new audiences

What is Copyright?

Distribution to students, colleagues, journalists, businesses.

Reuse by other researchers, bloggers, journalists, publishers.

Republication to new audiences

Translation to other languages

Also, without open licensing, your (publicly funded) work may not enter the

commons for over 100 years (...)

…which makes life very hard for libraries and archives who want to give

your work a second life.

Exhibit A:

Exhibit B:

Heald, Paul J., How Copyright Makes Books and Music Disappear (and How Secondary Liability Rules Help Resurrect Old Songs) (July 5, 2013). Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No. LBSS14-07; Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 13-54. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2290181 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2290181

Also, on what principle do you prevent reuse of publicly

funded research?

But wait, what’s an ‘open licence’ anyway?

Pragmatic solution Creators retain copyright

Permission in advance

Public DomainFew Restrictions

Public DomainFew Restrictions

All Rights ReservedFew Freedoms

Public DomainFew Restrictions

All Rights ReservedFew Freedoms

Some Rights ReservedRange of Licence Options

Four Licence Elements

Attribution

Non Commercial

No Derivatives

Share Alike

Six Licences

More free More restrictive

More free More restrictive

More free More restrictive

More free More restrictive

More free More restrictive

More free More restrictive

More free More restrictive

More free More restrictive

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Licence.

The Remix Kiwi by CCANZ is based on a work by Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand [LINK], which is made available under a

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.

Layers

Licence symboll

Human readable

Lawyer readable

More than 700 million works

General: search.creativecommons.org

New Zealand: digitalnz.org

NZGOAL (2010)Government guidance, approved by

Cabinet

Declaration on Open and Transparent Government (2011)

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