Creative Commons' Approach to Open Content

Hietanen, Herkko

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1162219

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“…This argument closely resembles the removal of legal barriers in the Berlin Declaration and the Bethesda Statement, describing a right to access and reuse scholarly and scienti c content. Hietanen (2008) also describes the advent of Creative Commons licenses as a reaction to the way copyright law has developed. Hietanen discusses the implications of applying CC licenses in great detail and analyses the license-choosing process and the clauses of the Creative Commons licenses.…”

Section: Balancing Interests Using Creative Commons Licensesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The deliverance of open access books : Examining usage and dissemination

Snijder¹

2019

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In many scholarly disciplines, books – not articles – are the norm. As print runs become smaller, the question arises whether publishing monographs in open access helps to make their contents globally accessible. To answer this question, the results of multiple studies on the usage of open access books are presented.The research focuses on three areas: economic viability; optimization of open access monographs infrastructure and measuring the effects of open access in terms of scholarly impact and societal influence. Each chapter reviews a di?ferent aspect: book sales, digital dissemination, open licenses, user communities, measuring usage, developing countries and the effects on citations and social media.

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Section: Balancing Interests Using Creative Commons Licensesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The deliverance of open access books : Examining usage and dissemination

Snijder¹

2019

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“…Webb, Gibson and Forkosh-Baruch, 2013;Wiliam and Black, 1996), which has been traditionally associated with grades, course exams and challenge exams for awarding recognition and credit. The OAR can serve as a foundational layer for fee-for-services from higher education institutions that wish to support scalable adaptive assessment (Almond and Mislevy, 1999) through a publicly available API and appropriate Creative Commons licensing (Hietanen, 2008).…”

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12. A Practitioner’s Guide to Open Educational Resources: A Case Study

Miller¹

2016

Open Education: International Perspectives in Higher Education

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has research interests in educational technology and management. Altinay is a lecturer at Near East University, a member of an information technology platform for disabled people, a consultant to the Ministry of Education, and a member of the Turkey Informatics Association. Altinay is a board member of Distance Education Center and has published her work in leading books and journals in the field.

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“…This argument closely resembles the removal of legal barriers in the Berlin Declaration and the Bethesda Statement, describing a right to access and reuse scholarly and scientific content. Hietanen (2008) also describes the advent of Creative Commons licenses as a reaction to the way copyright law has developed. Hietanen discusses the implications of applying CC licenses in great detail and analyses the license-choosing process and the clauses of the Creative Commons licenses.…”

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confidence: 99%

Better Sharing Through Licenses? Measuring the Influence of Creative Commons Licenses on the Usage of Open Access Monographs

Snijder¹

2015

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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IntroductIon Open Access and licenses are closely intertwined. Both Creative Commons (CC) and Open Access seek to restore the balance between the owners of creative works and prospective users. Apart from the legal issues around CC licenses, we could look at role of intermediaries whose work is enabled through CC licenses. Does licensing documents under Creative Commons increase access and reuse in a direct way, or is access and reuse amplified by intermediaries? oAPEn LIbrAry And doAb The OAPEN Library contains books available under both open licenses, for example Creative Commons, as well as books that are published under terms that only allow for personal use. The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) functions as an intermediary, offering aggregation services exclusively focused on books with an open license. MEthods Downloads are used as a proxy for the use of books in the OAPEN Library. The data set that this paper analyses data that was captured over a period of 33 months. During this time, 1734 different books were made available through the OAPEN Library: 855 books under a Creative Commons license and 879 books under a more restrictive regime. The influence of open licenses, aggregation in DOAB, and subject and language are evaluated. rEsuLts Once the effects of subject and language are taken into account, there is no evidence that making books available under open licenses results in more downloads than making books available under licenses that only allow for personal use. Yet, additional aggregation in the DOAB has a large positive effect on the number of times a book is downloaded. concLusIon The application of open licenses to books does not, on its own, lead to more downloads. However, open licenses pave the way for intermediaries to offer new discovery and aggregation services. These services play an important role by amplifying the impacts of open access licensing in the case of scholarly books.

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Creative Commons' Approach to Open Content

Cited by 6 publications

References 17 publications

The deliverance of open access books : Examining usage and dissemination

The deliverance of open access books : Examining usage and dissemination

12. A Practitioner’s Guide to Open Educational Resources: A Case Study

Better Sharing Through Licenses? Measuring the Influence of Creative Commons Licenses on the Usage of Open Access Monographs

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