MEDEV

School of Medical Sciences Education Development

PublishOER embedding third party published works in OER policy

Date: 1 day event - 22 Jun 2012 from 10:15 until 15:00

Introduction

MEDEV is holding an open educational resources (OER) 'licensing policies' workshop (inclusion of embedded third party rights), 10:30-14:30 Friday 22 June, JISC, Brettenham House, London, WC2E 7EN, sponsored by the PublishOER project (JISC OER Programme Phase 3). Led by MEDEV, Newcastle University, PublishOER partners include Elsevier, Rightscom, JISC Collections and the Royal Veterinary College (with Nottingham Veterinary School). 

This workshop seeks to develop new ways of complementing OER resources with high quality embedded third party published content by investigating and testing new business models. It aims to deal with high-level strategy issues (rather than implementation/execution issues such as specific clauses or terminology). For more information about PublishOER please see http://www.medev.ac.uk/ourwork/oer/publishoer/

Aims

It aims to address the following questions:

• What approaches to IP are most familiar  to the communities the project is seeking to reach?
• Which are showing the fastest adoption of various approaches to more open resources?
• Is "open-ness" an absolute?
• What factors (especially rights in components of complex resources) should be allowed to constrain the level of open-ness?
• Which of these have actually arisen during the project?
• Should the project be prepared to accept limitations in the availability of the resources it creates in order to deal with some practical aspects of their creation?
• If so, which limitations are acceptable and which not?

Activities

The working session will last approximately a half-day and will include:

• A brief review of the project's objectives and progress
• A review and discussion of the experience of the development teams working on the project
• Discussions of the main issues arising from stakeholder consultations
• Open discussion
• Discussion and refinement of an opportunity and trade-off matrix (starting-point will be a draft developed by the project team)

The field is changing rapidly, driven by user communities and by technological opportunities; your experience and views would be fully attributed and invaluable. In return, we hope to ensure a stimulating session for everyone who attends and an opportunity to shape national policy.

A discussion paper will be available in advance. It will include a high-level discussion of the issues and a brief report on the issues actually encountered by the project team members developing prototype resources.

Draft timetable

10.00 Arrival and refreshments

10:30 Welcome and introductions

10:45 Purpose of the workshop

11:00 Discussion paper: experience of the development teams and main issues arising from stakeholders

12:30 Introduction to opportunity/trade-off matrix

12:45 Lunch

13:30 Open discussion

14:15 Summing up/documentation

15:00 Close

Proposed outcomes

This workshop is designed to help determine what licensing parameters would be appropriate to the type of resources being developed by bringing together independent experts to provide a strategic perspective and insight into key licensing issues. We are especially interested in policies that would help ensure the widest availability of complex digital resources that contain content from different sources.

Facilitators & Speakers

• Hugh Look - Facilitator
• Megan Quentin-Baxter - Facilitator

Facilitator background

Hugh Look is a consultant to Rightscom and JISC Collections. He has considerable experience in the publishing arena. 

The PublishOER team have been working for the past 8 months on new approaches to embedding third party published works in educational resources. 

Target audience

Senior strategic managers in the UK. Publishers, authors, policy makers. 

Book a place

This event is by invitation only. If you interested in attending please contact Megan.Quentin-Baxter-at-ncl.ac.uk

Venue & Location

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