Open Research Exeter <http://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/openaccess/databases/orepolicies/#d.en.444179> allows people to publish content under Creative Commons licences.
Aside from open licences, a lot of institutions are doing some good work with making theses available online for free. As well as Exeter (where I'm a PhD student), there's Edinburgh <http://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/library-databases/databases-subject-a-z/database-theses> , Hull <https://hydra.hull.ac.uk/>, Oxford <https://ora.ox.ac.uk/>, and White Rose <http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/> which covers Leeds, Sheffield, and York. Not everything is freely available - for example because some have embargo periods - but it represents a large resource of free-to-access information. On 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-dissert >> ation-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 >> 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 > -- Richard Nevell Project Coordinator Wikimedia UK - sign up to our newsletter <http://eepurl.com/cnYOw5> +44 (0) 20 7065 0921 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
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