I agree with you, Stuart.
You know, the first part of your proposal is what many researchers
do: they publish papers under restrictive licences, but reports,
data sets used for researching and even PhD dissertation are
published under a free licence.
And let me explain other strategy for getting open research: it's
asking governaments to obly by law to publish under free licence
the work funded by them or made by public univs. This is something
WikiMedia Chapter could work on.
In this sense some countries are taking some steps. For example,
Spanish Gobernament has recently approved a law so every
researcher funded by them has to publish the results of his work
in an open directory. More info in Spanish [1].
Best,
Manuel
[1]
http://oaulpgc.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/aprobada-la-ley-de-la-ciencia/
From: R.Stuart Geiger <sgeiger(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2011/6/13
Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Closed-sourced papers on open source
communities
To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <
wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Greetings wikiresearchers,
As many of you know (and as we've discussed on this list before),
the
copyright licensing of academic papers about communities like
Wikipedia is a huge issue. I've just written up a blog post
about
this, but the tl;dr is that I have a bit of a solution, be it a
partial one. The gist is basically that asking academics to
release
*papers* under a free license is the wrong strategy. Instead, we
should encourage academics to release *research* under a free
license,
and that this can be done in such a way that still makes it
complies
with most of the contradictory obligations we have found
ourselves in.
It is quite possible to document a research project, its
motivations,
its methods, its background, its findings, and even all those
charts
and graphs on Meta, using the new Research: namespace and
corresponding templates that were *just* launched -- which
everyone
should check out anyway. And while I'd love some legal
non-advice on
this, I think we can do this in such a way that whenever it comes
time
to assign copyright to the ACM, all of the CC-BY/CC-BY-SA
licensed
graphs can be "used with permission" in a published research
paper.
Anyways, the link is below, and I'd love to get some feedback on
it:
http://www.stuartgeiger.com/wordpress/random-thoughts/2011/06/12/closed-sou…
Thanks!
Stuart Geiger
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