DRAFT, Copyleft Video, Shelley Woods, Nov. 26, 2012
Other YouTube videos about Open Access
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Jh_GffRPU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe49dSqZ8ro&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO38zHPhNQI&feature=related
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Copyleft
Person 1 Narrator/Librarian speaking in front of white board, images (described in brackets) in
background
By now you understand a little more about copyright (copyright symbol), but have you heard of copyleft
(rotate copyright symbol to become copyleft symbol)? Copyleft makes material freely available for you
to copy.
Copyleft materials are works like computer code that are freely accessible and that may be adapted.
Adapted versions of copyleft works must be made accessible too; it’s a form of Share Share Alike.
Creative Commons Share Share Alike is a license that allows for copying, but that requires sharing of
adapted or derivative works. (add Creative Commons Share Alike icon)
Open Access is an example of copyleft.
What is Open Access?
(word cloud with Open Access OA, Open Educational Resources OER, Digital Object Repository DOR)
You can think of Open Access as a present.
(image of wrapped gift in background)
Rather than charging you to access a journal article or image or learning object, the creator grants you
access free of charge. Open Access works may be covered by Creative Commons licensing beyond Share
Share Alike.
(bow unravels, gift opens)
This allows the creator of the content to keep the copyright rather than signing it over to a publisher.
(dollar signs)
Open Access content is stored in repositories that are accessible via the World Wide Web. A lot of
institutions, like governments, colleges and universities build repositories of materials. OpenDoar (list
URL http://www.opendoar.org) is a directory of Open Access Repositories from around the world,
including Canada. The repository materials may take the form of
(books, numbers, music notes, video camera, photographs)
textbooks, book chapters, scholarly peer reviewed articles or non-peer reviewed articles, scientific
reports, and mathematics, but it can also include lesson plans, videos, audio files or images, etc.
Person 2 Professor
How are Open Access Repositories allowed to exist? You just told us that virtually everything is
protected by copyright and that if we exceed our college’s copyright guidelines we need to seek
permissions to use someone else’s copyright protected content.
(question mark)
Person 1 Narrator/Librarian
Yes. That is true, however, Open Access Repositories include content that is either (1) shared by the
copyright holder, or (2), old enough that it is part of the public domain and no longer covered by
copyright.
(wrapped gift)
Person 2 Professor
That is great news! I have another question for you. The subscription databases have license
agreements stating what we can and cannot do with the content.
(legal document scrolling down white background
For example:
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Content remains property of licensor
Content is not owned by licensee
Access may be limited to onsite
Content may be linked not posted
Access may be limited to a maximum number of concurrent users
Content may only be accessed by current students, staff and faculty
Content may not be accessed by alumni or public
Content may not be shared
Access to content is only for duration of contract)
Do OARs have the same restrictions?
Person 1 Narrator/Librarian
Yes and no; OARs have restrictions too, just fewer of them. Normally Creative Commons licensing is
applied to repository materials. The copyright holder decides what you can and cannot do, for instance,
you can alter and use the work, but you must credit the author. Generally, Creative Commons licensing
allows for non-commercial use of the work.
(CC icon with radio buttons and CC terminology modifications, commercial and jurisdiction)
Open Access is becoming more prevalent in higher education. Colleges and universities cannot afford to
pay the rising costs of access to ebook and scholarly journal collections. Professors and librarians are
working together to make increasing amounts of quality educational materials available for free to
everyone on the Web.
There is an Open Access Week every year in Oct. to raise awareness of Open Access
(flip through calendar and circle Oct.) and, an Open Education University is being developed. It is
international and will offer free, for credit education. Athabasca University is involved with the Open
Education University.
(spinning globe)
Not to panic, brick and mortar colleges, and subscription databases will not disappear overnight!
(poof from magician’s wand)
Be sure to take advantage of your college’s licensed content AND the free content from Open Access
Repositories as you plan your course for your students. It will give you and your students the best of
both worlds, copy left and copyright.
Links for my Research and Potential Links for handout
http://libguides.lib.uci.edu/content.php?pid=207295&sid=1728925
Open DOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories)
http://opendoar.org/index.html
Merlot
http://taste.merlot.org/index.html
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
http://oaspa.org/
Open Access Week
http://www.openaccessweek.org/
Times Higher Education Article about Open Education University
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=415127
Creative Commons Blog Entry about Open Education University
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31947
Interview with Wayne MacKintosh, Open Education University
http://opensource.com/education/11/3/introducing-oer-university-5-questions-wayne-mackintosh