Licensing

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Licensing

We Love E-Books!

April 1, 2013

Carrie Rampp is Director of Library Services and Instructional Technology at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. True confession: I really love e-books. They are so conven…

The Next Great Copyright Act

March 20, 2013

On March 20, 2013, Register of Copyrights, Maria Pallante, testified before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet where she advocate…

MOOCs for Credit

October 29, 2012

"Coursera, the largest provider of massive open online courses (MOOCs), has entered into a contract to license several of the courses it has built with its university partners to Antioch Uni…

Special Collections and Archives in the Digital Age

June 28, 2012

This issue of Research Library Issues (no 279) from the Association of Research Libraries, is focused on legal concerns and evolving professional practices around digitizing special collectio…

Open Researcher & Contributor ID (ORCID): Solving the Name Ambiguity Problem

May 9, 2012

Brian Wilson is Head of Architecture for the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters and chairs the ORCID Technical Working Group. Martin Fenner is a …

Case Study 2: The Open Course Library of the Washington State Colleges

May 2, 2012

A case study from Game Changers Tom Caswell This chapter is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License This case study describes an initiative o…

eTexts: A Perishable Opportunity for Higher Education?

January 24, 2012

What role, if any, should colleges and universities play in the shift from print to digital textbooks (eTexts) ? One perspective is that eTexts are a consumer transaction between a publisher …

Sharing and Protecting Ideas and Knowledge in the 21st Century

February 15, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2012 Annual Meeting

How do the ideals of knowledge sharing and education intersect with market forces and modern technology? What is the tension between openness and traditional models of education? Where are the fric…

Open Content for Open Minds

November 1, 2011

Malcolm Brown, ELI director, and Veronica Diaz, ELI associate director, moderate this seminar with Judy Baker. Openly licensed educational content, commonly referred to as open educational resour…

Software Licensing Issues

October 18, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference

This discussion will cover the unique licensing needs of higher education and productive vendor relations. We will explore the challenges users of different computers in more than one venue face, u…