Theo Andrew, Intellectual Property and Electronic Theses, JISC Legal Information Service, September 22, 2004. Excerpt: "This briefing paper is concerned with outlining the issues which arise for an institution which is considering adopting electronic theses and dissertations for student work....[T]here may be no single answer to what should be open public knowledge and what should remain private....Certainly the majority of institutions in the UK that have begun the process of adopting electronic theses have taken the middle-ground by electing to place their ETDs online reflecting the ethos of Open Access; to maximise research visibility, usage and impact, without changing their present format of thesis examination....It is recommended that the approach to the use of copyright taken by the Budapest Open Access Initiative be adopted. Generous rights for users combined with content protection for authors and institutions is advocated: 'The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.' "
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/28/2004 08:45:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
