On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Luis Villa <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:43 PM, phoebe ayers <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> For the formal conference sessions , we are interested in any and all >> topics related to: >> >> * Open access publishing and institutional repositories >> * Sustainability, scalability, and assessment of open access >> * Open educational resources and open access applications in the >> classroom >> * Massive open online courses (MOOCs) - copyright issues, assessment, >> challenges >> * Outreach, promotion, and overcoming resistance to open initiatives >> >> We will consider proposals for individual presentations and panels >> organized around a theme. > > > This sounds interesting - thanks for raising it, Phoebe. > > My normal material - open licensing - seems like it would be a bit > offtopic, so I won't submit something by myself. But if anyone is > considering a panel where an open licensing perspective would be useful as > part of a broader/more interesting theme, please contact me - I'd be happy > to help out. > > Luis > > I don't think it's off-topic at all, considering that all of this openness has to be built on open licensing :) But, I think the audience will likely be familiar with but not hugely knowledgeable about open licenses & issues, so a survey or similar would probably be good. I know from the university perspective lots of faculty (and librarians) have a lot of questions about what open license mandates from the government or in university repositories mean about the rights to their work, concerns about commercial use, etc. -- phoebe
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