Re: CC licenses for PhD theses (Richard Nevell)

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> Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 10:59:23 +0100
> From: Richard Nevell <richard.nevell@wikimedia.org.uk>
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> Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] CC licenses for PhD theses
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> Open Research Exeter
> <http://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/openaccess/databases/orepolicies/#d.en.444179>
> allows people to publish content under Creative Commons licences.
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> Aside from open licences, a lot of institutions are doing some good work
> with making theses available online for free. As well as Exeter (where I'm
> a PhD student), there's Edinburgh
> <http://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/library-databases/databases-subject-a-z/database-theses>
> , Hull <https://hydra.hull.ac.uk/>, Oxford <https://ora.ox.ac.uk/>, and White
> Rose <http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/> which covers Leeds, Sheffield, and
> York. Not everything is freely available - for example because some have
> embargo periods - but it represents a large resource of free-to-access
> information.
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> On 1 May 2017 at 14:34, Deryck Chan <deryckchan@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Thanks John for the idea. I'm in a good position to participate on a
> > personal basis if something like this goes live.
> >
> > I'm a PhD student at Cambridge University and I'm partially funded by
> > EPSRC which requires all their research publications to be open access. So
> > I will have the option to open-copyright my eventual PhD thesis, especially
> > if there's a movement and a repository for it.
> >
> > Deryck
> >
> > On 1 May 2017 at 14:22, John Levin <anterotesis@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> 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-dissert
> >> ation-online/51361
> >> 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/copyr
> >> ight_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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> >> John Levin
> >> http://www.anterotesis.com
> >> http://twitter.com/anterotesis
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