Hi Rupert
Some of my materials are copyright (being used for educational/research purposes in this case) behind a password. I’ve got some ideas for creating CC versions of the tasks some of which I think would contribute to Wikimedia projects.
The PhD thesis itself I’m not sure about, because I’m likely to draw material from it for publication, and bits of it will be adapted from publications, it may not be as simple as cc-by’ing it (some journals have issues with any versions of work being available), there may be a university policy on his which I should look at.
I try and make all my publications accessible via at least green-OA (as you can see from the publications section http://sjgknight.com/finding-knowledge/cv/ ), this has included a book chapter which I negotiated free access to. I know this isn’t ideal, I’d prefer to publish in journals which have a cc-license, but I don’t have funding for the “pay-to-CC” gold route journals, and there just aren’t that many cc journals available in my field. I blog and make other materials available (I need to look at putting a license across the blog).
Cheers
Simon
From: education-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:education-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of rupert THURNER
Sent: 12 May 2014 22:21
To: Wikimedia Education
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Request for participants
What license will the produced papers and phd thesis have?
Rupert
Am 10.05.2014 15:33 schrieb "Simon Knight" <sjgknight@gmail.com>:
Hi all
I umm’d and ahh’d over whether this was an abuse of the mailing list – so my apologies if you’re of that view (please let me know), and obviously just ignore it!
Essentially, I’m looking for participants to take part in some PhD research, if anyone has a spare afternoon I’d really appreciate your help (sadly gratitude is all I can offer in return). The study is of broad relevance to Wikimedians in that it involves collaborating to find information, and writing a short shared piece based on that information. I can obviously provide further information particularly after the study is complete.
I’m currently looking for participants to take part in some PhD research. The study is of broad relevance to Wikimedians in that it involves collaborating to find information together, and writing a short shared piece based on that information. I thought this community might be interested in two ways:
1) take part yourself, if anyone has a spare afternoon I’d really appreciate your help (sadly gratitude is all I can offer in return),
2) working with a student group, the task would be a great task for students (undergraduates or above) to think about how they work together to find and evaluate information
The study involves two collaborative tasks, the first of which involves reading a set of assigned texts, and the second searching on the web. So to do that:
· It involves downloading and using a firefox addon
· to work with a partner (someone you know, but it’s better if they’re not in the same location – you can schedule this at your own convenience)
· to read some documents and write a short piece together
There are two tasks (total time 2.5-4 hours) but if you wanted to just sign up to 1 in the first instance and then decide on the 2nd that’s possible. More information on the website, so I’ll leave it with you. The research findings would of course be shared back to you.
Your help would be much appreciated!
If you’re interested in signing up, please check out the website at http://projects.kmi.open.ac.uk/edusearch/ If you do sign up where your role is asked, it’d be great if you could put whatever you consider your main role to be, + ‘Wikimedian’
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