Towards opennessExperiences from a university library

Ignasi LabastidaOffice for dissemination of knowledge

Universitat de Barcelona

¿Towards openness?

Barriers to access

Economic barriers

Legal barriers

Beginning

2003

Unit for teaching innovation

How can we share educational resources?

Legal tool

Crediting our faculty

A free license

Which one?

Follow

But that was just an initiative

A few documents in a non searchable list

Lack of support

Institutional support

Then...

Boom of the repositories

In Catalonia we started with a consortium

Grey literature under CC

Why only BY-NC-ND?

Fear about copies

Fear about money

But we had already a repository

Without the chance of using a CC license

Fear about the unknown

Openness

With doubts and fears

Uncertainty

Should it be legal?

2006

Office for dissemination of knowledge

Library

Build our own repository

And work towards openness

Starting with the previouseducational resources

All under CC licenses

And educating the faculty

About rights

About openness

Information

Security

Help

And now we have institutional contents

And now we have students' works

And now we have Research

Following the Open Access movement

Self-archivingas much as we can

Combining repository andresearch information systems

We work within the university

And outside

Now thesis can be uploaded with any license

Universities work together

But there is a lot to do

Which university do we want?

Why should we share our knowledge?

Why for free?

What about plagiarism?

What about copyright?

What can I take from others?

What can others take from me?

Sharing educates people

Respecting others' rights

As we want ours respected

We need policies

open policies

To show the world who we are

and what we do

To show the world we want to share

It is possible

Let's work together towards openness

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