Creative Commons, Open Access, and Living Cultures

Creative Commons and the openness of open access.

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Open Access, the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, and the Nutrition Society journals.

The Brave New World Of Open Access & Creative Commons: A Humanistic Experiment In Mathematical Publishing

In January 2011 the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics (JHM) published its first issue. JHM (http://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm) is an online-only, peer-reviewed, open-access journal which has passed the all-important tenthousand-download barrier in its first anniversary. In order to remain faithful to the fundamental principles of open access, JHM uses Creative Commons licensing, where author...

Open Source Licenses and the Creative Commons Framework: License Selection and Comparison

Numerous licenses confuse new participants in the free/open source software (FOSS) world. In this paper, we provide a general introduction to eleven commonly-used FOSS licenses. By applying seven specific considerations that are proposed in our study, developers can identify which license suits their needs best. We further use the above considerations to rank these FOSS licenses, which are Open...

Durchgängige Integration einer Creative Commons Lizenzverwaltung in die Open Learning Content Authoring & Management Plattform docendo

Die Angabe von Lizenzinformationen durch Autoren von Lernressourcen ist eine der wesentlichen Voraussetzungen für die Umsetzung von Projekten zur Verbreitung von Offenen digitalen Lernressourcen (OER) und deren Wiederverwendung. Lehrende scheuen zumeist die Auseinandersetzung mit Fragen der Lizenzierung ihrer Lernressourcen und nutzen bestehende Systemfunktionalitäten zur Angabe von Lizenzinfor...