This is presentation given at the 2014 SPARC Open Access meeting in Kansas City, MO on March 3, 2014. The presentation was given by Timothy Vollmer from Creative Commons as a part of a panel on policy & advocacy.

1. The exchange between
open access and open
educational resources:
What can we learn?
Timothy Vollmer 3 March 2014

2. (1) Content

3. OA OER

8. Takeaway:
OA articles
feeding OER

9. (2) Policy

10. OER OA

12. What’s
important?

13. 4Rs

14. Reuse
Redistribute
Revise
Remix

16. Astroturfing?
Sure.

17. Policy wins
with these
reuse rights?
Yes.

23. Publicly funded
resources are
openly licensed
resources.

24. ● clarify legal right to reuse!
● enable customization, remix,
translation
● $$$ savings
● creators retain copyright
● entrepreneurial use
● compatibility with other OER
● standardization
● maximize potential impact of
funds

26. What’s
important?

28. 10 year recommendations for
licensing and reuse:
● OA journals are always in a position to require
open licenses...CC BY is recommended;
● Policy makers in a position to direct deposits
under open licenses, preferably CC BY;
● Strategy!
○ Public access (free) better than toll access.
○ Open access (open licensing) is better than
simply public access.
○ CC BY or equivalent is better than [more]
restrictive open licenses.

30. We’ve got great
OA publishers
supporting BOAI

34. Where are the
public policies
supporting
BOAI?

35. NIH: no

36. White House: no

37. FASTR: no*

38. Omnibus: no

39. RCUK: a mess

40. Why?

41. ● clarify legal right to reuse!
● enable customization, remix,
translation
● $$$ savings
● creators retain copyright
● entrepreneurial use
● compatibility with other OER
● standardization
● maximize potential impact of
funds

42. Problems are
similar

45. Benefits are
clear

48. What is
needed?

49. (1)
It’s 42.16km,
not 100m.

50. ● Public access (free) better than toll
access.
● Open access (open licensing) is
better than public access.
● CC BY or equivalent is better than
more restrictive open licenses.
● OA Publishers show the way!
● Keep an eye on OER policy

51. (2)
#BOAI10
redux

52. Make connection between reuse rights and progress
● benefits to research and researchers
● how lack of OA impedes research
● increases the return on their investment in research
● amplifies the social and educational value of research
● costs can be recovered without (much) additional
investment
● consistent with copyright law everywhere in the world
● consistent with the highest standards of quality

53. (3)
The right to
read is the
right to mine.

54. Wanted:
policies to enable
“computational analysis using
state-of-the-art technologies”

55. Great!
Science is global. Let’s break
down barriers to sharing and
collaboration by standardizing
around open formats and
licenses.

56. TDM and
licensing:
be careful what you
wish for...

57. Michael Carroll in PLOS: “...
the license applies only to
uses covered by copyright,
and copyright does not
regulate text mining - at least
in the United States.”
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001210

60. Thanks

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