Open Licensing for Academic Works and Related Concerns

IDS-IGIDR WorkshopMarch 12-13, 2015

Open Licensing for Academic Worksand Related Concerns

Anubha [email protected]

Sumandro [email protected]

Contents

What(s), How(s), and Why(s) of Open Access

Open Licensing with Creative Commons

Open Access Policies in India

What about Academic Works Other than Articles?

Open Science, Open Educational Resources, Open Data

Open (Academic) Data – Licenses and Formats

Open Data in India – Government and Non-Government


What?

“Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions” – Peter Suber

How?

“Pay for dissemination, not access” – Two complementary strategies to achieve open access:

– Publish in an Open Access journal

– Publish in a conventional journal and deposit a copy of the published paper in an open access archive

Source: Richard Poynder


Why?

Widen dissemination, accelerate research, enrich education, share learning among rich & poor nations, enhance return on taxpayer investment in research, reduce the overall costs of scholarly publishing.

– Free Access = Maximum Visibility

– Authors have Higher chances to be cited

– Immediate publication and included in repository

– Authors retain copyright

Source: Richard Poynder


Why Open Access at Libraries?

– Avoiding the pricing crisis

– Subscription prices are persistently escalating at an annual rate of approximately 8% to 10% – costs of journals are rising faster than inflation

– Monopoly of some of the publishers and escalating the cost every years

– Users get barrier free access to the literature they need for their research

– Helps increasing the institution's faculty in increasing their audience and impact – raises the universities research profile


Delivery Vehicles of Open Access

Gold OA – Requires researchers to publish directly in OA publication journals or repositories

Green OA – Requires researchers to make their published, peer-reviewed journal and conference papers OA by self-archiving their final, peer-reviewed drafts in a freely accessible central or institutional repository


A Creative Commons license is an End User's license.

Source: Elsevier


Which CC License?

Source: Masterminds.org

MOST FREE

LEAST FREE


– Indian Council for Agricultural Research

– Indian Institute of Mathematical Sciences

– Department of Science and Technology and Department of Biotechnology (DBT-DST OA Policy)


Key Features of the DBT-DST OA Policy #1

– Encourages Gold OA

– Mandatory Green OA

– Vesting of copyright is a muddled area

– Mandatory creation of repository infrastructure

– Embargo period (recommended): 6-12 months

– Inconsistencies still exist – Authors have career advancement incentives based on Journal Factors. OA can succeed when institutions and researchers become “title-agnostic.”


Key Features of the DBT-DST OA Policy #2

– DBT-DST will not underwrite APCs

– Full-text of paper and meta data to be deposited (final accepted Manuscript)

– Ambiguity about doctorial theses/dissertations

– Onus of the Principal Investigator or Librarian to deposit papers timely

– Ensure sharing of materials in machine readable form

What about Academic Works other than Articles?

Except journal articles, what other academic works are produced by social science researchers?

How should those materials be shared?

Open Science, Open Educational Resources,Open Data

Open Science

– Opening up methodologies, tools, data, process documentations, and results for public re-usage and sharing

Open Educational Resources

– Opening up documents and media for the purpose of learning,teaching, assessing, and undertaking pedagogic research.

Open Data

– Opening up data and associated materials created by government and non-government entities for public access, sharing, and re-usage

Open (Academic) Data – Licenses and Formats

Open (Academic) Data

– Primary and secondary data being produced and/or compiled by researchers as part of the academic research process

– Bibliographic data about academic works being produced or being archived in an institute

Licenses

– What kinds of re-sharing and re-usage of the data are to be allowed? Should restrictions be lowered over time?

Formats

– How easily and effectively can other researchers access, re-use, and re-share academic data once it is opened up?

Open Data in India – Government and Non-Government

National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (2013)

– A policy for public (and internal) sharing digital and digitised data held by (Central) government agencies in machine-readable and human-readable formats using open standards

Open Government Data Platform of India (2013)

– A data management portal developed and managed by National Informatics Centre to host and publish data disclosed under National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy

India Biodiversity Portal (2008)

– A data management portal developed and managed by Strand Life Sciences and Atree for researchers and organisations to (systematically) contribute data about biodiversity in India

Open Government Data Platform of Indiadata.gov.in

India Biodiversity Portalindiabiodiversity.org

India Biodiversity Portal

IDS-IGIDR WorkshopMarch 12-13, 2015

Thank you very much.

Anubha [email protected]

Sumandro [email protected]

Open Licensing for Academic Works and Related Concerns

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