Open Research Exeter
<http://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/openaccess/databases/orepolicies/#d.en.444179>
allows people to publish content under Creative Commons licences.
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.
On 1 May 2017 at 14:34, Deryck Chan <deryckchan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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(a)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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