What is it about?
This guide is an output from the OAPEN-UK project. We put it together to explore concerns expressed by researchers, learned societies and publishers regarding open access monographs and Creative Commons licenses. The guide has been edited by active researchers, to make sure that it is relevant and useful to academics faced with making decisions about publishing.
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Why is it important?
The guide coded concerns expressed in public evidence to inquiries in the House of Commons and the House of Lords, and also concerns expressed by researchers working with the OAPEN-UK project in order to identify themes for a set of common questions and answers regarding Creative Commons. These were then checked by experts including Creative Commons.
Perspectives
The guide has proved very successful when talking to researchers in HSS disciplines as an accompaniment to advocacy sessions on open access. In addition, the Guide was used to base the section on Copyright in the OAWAL project, which has had a great deal of interest from Europe and the US. This was a great example of how a Creative Commons license allowed the original work to be developed into a new piece of work for a different audience
Dr Graham Stone
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This page is a summary of: Guide to Creative Commons for Humanities and Social Science Monograph Authors, July 2013, University of Huddersfield Press,
DOI: 10.5920/oapen-uk/ccguide.
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Guide to Creative Commons for Humanities and Social Science monograph authors
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OAWAL – Open Access Workflows for Academic Librarians
OAWAL is an openly accessible resource for librarians working on the management of open access workflows. We have developed 6 areas of focus for workflow management: advocacy, models and mandates, standards, the library scholarly publishing, Creative Commons and discovery.
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