Archive for the ‘Open Licenses’ Category

Sean P Aune at SitePoint rounds up 30+ Places To Find Creative Commons Media for those seeking audio, video, images, and text files that can be re-used free of charge under a CC license.

Athabasca University Press has published Mobile Learning: Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training and licensed it under a Creative Commons License. The entire e-book is available for download via the AU Press website.

“This collection is for anyone interested in the use of mobile technology for various distance learning applications. Readers will discover how to design learning materials for delivery on mobile technology and become familiar with the best practices of other educators, trainers, and researchers in the field, as well as the most recent initiatives in mobile learning research. Businesses and governments can learn how to deliver timely information to staff using mobile devices. Professors can use this book as a textbook for courses on distance education, mobile learning, and educational technology.”

via Reference Notes

There are over 100 million photos available on Flickr which have been licensed with Creative Commons licenses and Michelle Thorne has published an analysis of them on the Creative Commons blog. Here are a few of her findings:

• 33% of them are equipped with the most restrictive CC License, BY-NC-ND. That means that over 32 million photos are available to download, display publicly, and distribute, as long as the author is attributed and no changes are made to the original image.
• The second most frequent license is BY-NC-SA. It allows derivative works for non-commercial purposes as long as those resulting works are made available under the same license. 29%, or 29 million images, can be used in this manner.
• 76% of all photos bar commercial use. At the same time, it means that 24%, or 24 million photos, do allow for commercial use with minimal restrictions.
• Over 12 millions photos are completely free to use, as long as the author of the image is attributed.
• Approximately 63 million of all available image files allow for derivative works.

Today I’ll be giving a half-day workshop at METRO, the Metropolitan Library Council here in NYC, these are my presentations for anyone who is interested in “open” topics. The main topics I’ll be covering include Open Source Software, Open Access, and Open Education and how they are relevant to libraries. I’ll also be discussing open licenses, open conferences and camps, open textbooks, and new open Web initiatives.

The University of Michigan Library has announced that it will license all of its creative works including bibliographies, research guides, technology tutorials, and lesson plans under a Creative Common Attribution-Non-Commercial license. This will allow everyone to use, remix, and redistribute the library’s content as long as they credit the library and use it for non-commercial purposes. The license will be completely integrated into the library’s website redesign expected this fall.

via Open Access News