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Making your publications open

Understanding open licenses

Schol Comm mini-workshops Winter 2023

Image copyrighted - Fair Use exception

Julia Rodriguez ~ juliar@oakland.edu

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Why make your work open

Greater access for scholars & public
Greater rate of readership/downloads
Citation rates (debate still ongoing)
Public use and reuse
Greater exposure - more international reach
Broader engagement
Public good - Right thing to do

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Do you own the copyright?

Grant of Rights.

a. To Publisher. The Contributor hereby grants, transfers, and assigns to the Publisher, and the Publisher shall own, all right, title, and interest in and to the Contributions, including all copyright rights, and all renewals and extensions thereof, throughout the world, in perpetuity, in any and all media, now known or hereinafter devised. Such rights include, but are not limited to, the exclusive right (i) to publish, print, reproduce, display, modify, sell, distribute, transmit, and license the Contributions, in whole and in part, in all languages, in audio recordings, video recordings, audio-visual works…

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/)

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Article versions

Typical publishing workflow for an academic journal article (preprint, postprint, and published) with open access sharing rights per SHERPA/RoMEO (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preprint_postprint_published.svg ) by Thomas Shafee adapted from diagram by Ginny Barbour under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence

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Check Sherpa/Romeo an online resource that aggregates and presents publisher and journal open access policies from around the world.

https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/search.html

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Quick and easy

OUR@Oakland.edu

Help Guide

https://oakland.libguides.com/OURatOakland

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Open License

An open license is one that grants permission to access, reuse and redistribute a work with few or no restrictions.

Open is the New Black by SBCTC, CC BY

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Creative Commons Licenses

Provide a super easy mechanism for a copyright holder to:

(1) provide everyone in the world with permission to engage in a specific set of (otherwise prohibited) activities,

(2) given that they abide by specific conditions.

Creative Commons licenses allow copyright holder to retain rights while enabling clarity and ease to sharing materials online.

Adapted from David Wiley "Creative Commons, the 5Rs and OER“ This presentation is licensed CC BY Open is the New Black by SBCTC, CC BY

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Types of Creative Commons licenses

OERs and Creative Commons: What’s the Connection? By Sandy McCarthy, CC BY

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Select your licensing

Creative Commons License builder

Step by step to select the appropriate license for your work.

https://chooser-beta.creativecommons.org/

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Guides

Next workshop:

Finding and using data for coursework at OU - Thursday, Feb. 23, 12-1

OUR@Oakland Help Guide
Creative Commons Licenses - OU Libraries Guide
Open Access - OU Libraries Guide
Sherpa/Romeo help guide

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Questions

Julia Rodriguez - Scholarly Communications Librarian ~juliar@oakland.edu

Library liaisons - Each department has an assigned librarian.