User:John Cummings/Implementing Open Access


This page provides an overview of the steps required prepare and implement the adoption of Open Access within an organisation, it is specifically written for Intergovernmental Organisations but is intended to be used by any organisations interested in Open Access.

Explanation of Open Access

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What the open access movement is about

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Preparation

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Open Access models

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Different models for open access, pros and cons

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Business models

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Choosing licenses

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Can chose a single license for all content

Can chose to have a default license, with other content available under more restricted licenses where needed

  • Images
  • Publications
  • Website text
  • Data
  • Software

Explanation of NC and ND clauses and what they do and don't allow

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Policy

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Writing an OA policy

Implementation

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Content formats

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because one of the main

formats discourage copying and reuse, some make it much easier

e.g data held in a spreadsheet is much easier for researchers to use that data published in a table in a .pdf. requires significant effort to reuse.

5 star data

Different, encouraging sharing of content

OA labeling for content

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Website text

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Publications

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legal page, Different parts of the same product licensed differently eg Shutterstock photos in an OA publications

Media files e.g images

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Software

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Author agreements

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Reuse

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Encouraging reuse

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Measuring reuse

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Moving content to Wikimedia

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Page construction notes

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