Creative Commons - The Next Generation: Creative Commons licence use five years on

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

Rethinking Copyrights for the Library through Creative Commons Licensing

Two recent and related social developments of note for libraries are an upsurge in cultural participation enabled by Web 2.0 media and calls in government policy for enhanced innovation through education. Ironically, these have occurred at the same time that increasingly stringent copyright laws have restricted access to cultural content. Concepts of governmentality are used here to examine the...

Creative Commons and the openness of open access.

1. Heading for the open road: costs and benefits of transitions in scholarly communications. London: Research Information Network, 2011 (http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/ communicating-and-disseminating-research/ heading-open-road-costs-and-benefitstransitions-s). 2. Davis PM. The effect of public deposit of scientific articles on readership. Physiologist 2012;55:161-5. 3. Anderson K. The hall of ...

Assigning Creative Commons Licenses to Research Metadata: Issues and Cases

This paper discusses the problem of lack of clear licensing and transparency of usage terms and conditions for research metadata. Making research data connected, discoverable and reusable are the key enablers of the new data revolution in research. We discuss how the lack of transparency hinders discovery of research data and make it disconnected from the publication and other trusted research ...

Creative Commons and Appropriation: Implicit Collaboration in Digital Works

Appropriation is a common practice in art and literature; electronic literature in particular lends itself readily to appropriation and collaboration, due to its multimodal and born-digital nature. This paper presents practice-based research examining the effects of digital appropriation on two works of digital fiction (a hyperfiction and an interactive fiction), demonstrating how it alters the...