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Bridging the copyright and licensing knowledge gap

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posted on 2024-06-17, 12:32 authored by A Fahey, Chrissy FreestoneChrissy Freestone, Fiona RussellFiona Russell, C Savage
Objectives: The purpose of this project was to examine the copyright and licensing knowledge gap of academic staff to identify their current understanding of, and attitudes towards, copyright, licensing and the open access movement in relation to the content they use, create, and share in their teaching and research practice. The motivation behind this study was to gather information to assist the Library in creating and providing effective information resources and training for academic staff. Methods: An anonymous online survey was distributed to Faculty of Health academic staff at Deakin University. Seventy individuals in the Faculty of Health completed the survey. Results: The results suggested that most of the academics have used content created by others in their teaching materials, but they are not confident about complying with copyright or licensing conditions whilst doing so. Most had not posted any of their own content online, but would generally be willing for it to be used by others, with attribution. Around half had never posted their published articles in an institutional or discipline repository, but again, would be willing for them to be used for educational purposes. Most academics have never shared their research data online, and some were very unwilling to do so - despite current pushes to broaden access to research data sets. Finally, most had never applied a Creative Commons licence to a piece of work, and over half were unaware of what rights they had retained under publishing agreements for their work. It was strongly indicated that an informational website would be very helpful in providing guidance around topics of copyright, licensing and sharing. Conclusions: Results were largely consistent with other similar studies conducted around these topics. There is a clear role for librarians to continue providing such training and resources as the push for Open Access resources, publishing, and data only gains momentum.

History

Volume

5

Pagination

1-16

Location

Melbourne, Victoria

Open access

  • Yes

Start date

2014-09-15

End date

2014-09-19

ISSN

2205-0531

Language

eng

Notes

This paper was previously presented at ALIA 2014 : Australian Library and Information Association Conference

Publication classification

A6 Research report/technical paper

Copyright notice

2016, Deakin University Library

Editor/Contributor(s)

[Unknown]

Publisher

Deakin University Library

Place of publication

Geelong, Vic.

Series

discourse: Deakin University Library research and practice