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
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Michael
Could we do a project to try and get a video of every vertebrate
endemic to the UK walking, flying swimming, slivering or whatever it
does (is locomoting the general term?)? Something like geograph but
with animals rather than map squares.
Things that we would need. A list of every animal endemic to the UK
and some way of keeping track of uploads. Wikipedia has a fairly
decent set of lists starting here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauna_of_Great_Britain#Vertebrates
Things that would be useful:
Talks on transcoding. How to get the video from your phone or camera
to wikipedia with the best results (VLC ffmpeg2theora)
Talks on how to record decent videos. To an extent with photos you can
take a dozen pics and get a good one through shear luck. Harder to do
with video.
Info from the RSPB and the like on how to record videos responsibly
A page to list publicly accessible bird hides and the like.
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