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
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