The exchange between open access and open educational resources:

What can we learn?

Timothy Vollmer 3 March 2014

(1) Content

OA OER

Takeaway: OA articles

feeding OER

(2) Policy

OER OA

What’s important?

4Rs

ReuseRedistributeRevise Remix

Astroturfing? Sure.

Policy wins with these

reuse rights?Yes.

Publicly funded resources are

openly licensed resources.

● 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

What’s important?

● 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.

10 year recommendations for licensing and reuse:

We’ve got great OA publishers

supporting BOAI

Where are the public policies

supporting BOAI?

NIH: no

White House: no

FASTR: no*

Omnibus: no

RCUK: a mess

Why?

● 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

Problems are similar

Benefits are clear

What is needed?

(1)It’s 42.16km,

not 100m.

● 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

(2)#BOAI10

redux

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

(3)The right to read is the

right to mine.

Wanted: policies to enable

“computational analysis using state-of-the-art technologies”

Great! Science is global. Let’s break down barriers to sharing and

collaboration by standardizing around open formats and

licenses.

TDM and licensing:

be careful what you wish for...

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

Thanks

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