Who owns open knowledge? The two types of licence to consider when making books open access
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Summary:
Barnes, Lucy (2025) Who owns open knowledge? The two types of licence to consider when making books open access. Open Book Publishers blog. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0173.0277
As more open access books are being published, greater attention is being paid to the implications of different types of open licence and what the consequences of using them are. Sometimes an author requests a specific licence; sometimes their funder mandates the licence; and sometimes their publisher advises (or insists) on the licence to be used.
But when a more restrictive open licence is applied to a book, who gets to make decisions about usage that falls outside the open licence?
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