Any chance you could help me write something for the newsletter? On Mon, 1 May 2017 at 14:34, Deryck Chan <deryckc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks John for the idea. I'm in a good position to participate on a > personal basis if something like this goes live. > > I'm a PhD student at Cambridge University and I'm partially funded by > EPSRC which requires all their research publications to be open access. So > I will have the option to open-copyright my eventual PhD thesis, especially > if there's a movement and a repository for it. > > Deryck > > On 1 May 2017 at 14:22, John Levin <anterote...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear list, >> >> The subject of publishing postgrad / PhD these under open licenses came >> up via the 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 >> >> 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-dissertation-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/copyright_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 >> 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
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