No worries. I'll try to put something together myself if I have time. I might ask you for advice though.
On 1 May 2017 at 14:31, John Levin <anterote...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi John, > > Sorry, but I have neither the time nor the knowledge to write on OA uni > publishing, not even just for the humanities side. > > But as a sidenote, there are more and more UK academic / university > publishers going full OA, such as the Open Library of Humanities: > https://about.openlibhums.org/ > And UCL Press: > https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/about > > I have heard that Sussex may be doing something similar too. > > University OA scientific publishing is another kettle of fish altogether, > and far more advanced than for us poor hums students. > > Best, > > John > > On 01/05/2017 14:25, John Lubbock wrote: > >> Hi John, thanks for posting about this. We have our May newsletter >> coming up soon. I wonder if you would be interested in writing a short >> summary of the current state of university Open Access publishing which >> we could include in it? It can be as short as you like. >> >> John Lubbock >> Communications Coordinator >> Wikimedia UK >> >> On 1 May 2017 at 14:22, John Levin <anterote...@gmail.com >> <mailto:anterote...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Dear list, >> >> The subject of publishing postgrad / PhD these under open licenses >> came up via the W.UK <http://W.UK> twitter account a few days ago: >> >> >> Wouldn't it be amazing if all postgrad/PhD students were given the >> option to publish dissertations/theses on Open Licenses? >> #OpenKnowledge >> https://twitter.com/wikimediauk/status/857618743924592640 >> <https://twitter.com/wikimediauk/status/857618743924592640> >> >> I think there's two issues here: first, if, how and when postgrad >> theses are published, then second, under what license. >> >> For the first, there's been debates recently about embargoing >> publication etc. Eg: >> http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/publishing-dissert >> ation-online/51361 >> <http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/publishing-disser >> tation-online/51361> >> But that's another subject really. >> >> For the second, I think there's no reason that prevents any thesis >> being published under a free open license, save where there is use >> of copyrighted materials. But I haven't found many unis stating this >> clearly. >> Leeds is the only UK university I've found that overtly advocates CC >> licenses: >> https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/371/copyright_for/294/copyr >> ight_for_phds/4 >> <https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/371/copyright_for/294/copy >> right_for_phds/4> >> But this is on the sole basis of a few hours googling. >> >> I'm a PhD at Sussex ATM, so will be looking more closely into their >> arrangements next year. >> >> John >> >> -- >> John Levin >> http://www.anterotesis.com >> http://twitter.com/anterotesis >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia UK mailing list >> wikimediau...@wikimedia.org <mailto:wikimediau...@wikimedia.org> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l> >> WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia UK mailing list >> wikimediau...@wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >> WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk >> >> > > -- > John Levin > http://www.anterotesis.com > http://twitter.com/anterotesis > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk >
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