Hi John,
Sorry, but I have neither the time nor the knowledge to write on OA uni
publishing, not even just for the humanities side.
But as a sidenote, there are more and more UK academic / university
publishers going full OA, such as the Open Library of Humanities:
https://about.openlibhums.org/
And UCL Press:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/about
I have heard that Sussex may be doing something similar too.
University OA scientific publishing is another kettle of fish
altogether, and far more advanced than for us poor hums students.
Best,
John
On 01/05/2017 14:25, John Lubbock wrote:
Hi John, thanks for posting about this. We have our May newsletter
coming up soon. I wonder if you would be interested in writing a short
summary of the current state of university Open Access publishing which
we could include in it? It can be as short as you like.
John Lubbock
Communications Coordinator
Wikimedia UK
On 1 May 2017 at 14:22, John Levin <anterote...@gmail.com
<mailto:anterote...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear list,
The subject of publishing postgrad / PhD these under open licenses
came up via the W.UK <http://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
<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/51361
<http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/publishing-dissertation-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/copyright_for_phds/4
<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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