What happens when you find your open access PhD thesis for sale on Amazon? | Impact of Social Sciences

openacrs's bookmarks 2021-07-08

Summary:

Last year a number of early career academics discovered that their PhD theses, which had been deposited in institutional open access repositories, were being sold for profit via Amazon Seller pages. In this post Guy Lavender, with contributions from Jane Secker and Chris Morrison, discuss the implications of this episode in relation to the protections provided by creative commons licensing for academic work and the extent to which openly published theses constitute prior publication for early career researchers looking to publish their doctoral work as a book.

Link:

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2021/07/08/what-happens-when-you-find-your-open-access-phd-thesis-for-sale-on-amazon/

From feeds:

[IOI] Open Infrastructure Tracking Project » Items tagged with oa.creative_commons in Open Access Tracking Project (OATP)
Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » openacrs's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.licensing oa.creative_commons oa.copyright oa.new oa.licensing oa.libre oa.etds oa.creative_commons oa.copyright

Date tagged:

07/08/2021, 06:20

Date published:

07/08/2021, 02:20