Presentation Type
Lightning Talk
Date
2022-11-17
Description
This lightning talk will cover five key takeaways from the ten week certificate course on open licensing for academic librarians offered by the Creative Commons organization. The talk will cover basic copyright principles necessary to understand the function and application of open licenses such as creative commons. The five key takeaways will be presented by a medical librarian working at an academic medical library, so the lens of the lightning talk will be focused on the needs of medical libraries. Examples for each takeaway will incorporate challenges, needs, or use cases of institutional repositories at medical institutions. During the lightning talk, the presenter will share free resources to learn more about open licensing. Medical librarians and those supporting medical institutional repositories will be better able to contribute to the Open Access (OA) movement if they are comfortable with open licensing and able to guide patrons and depositors through the open licensing selection and interpretation process. By the end of this lightning talk, attendees will have a basic understanding of creative commons licenses and be able to articulate why they are important to incorporate into institutional repositories.
Keywords
Creative Commons licenses, Open Access (OA), institutional repositories
Open Access
1
Rights and Permissions
Copyright © 2022 Samantha Wilairat
Repository Citation
Wilairat, Samantha, "5 Key Takeaways from “Creative Commons for Academic Librarians”" (2022). Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL). 9.
https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/mirl/2022/program/9
5 Key Takeaways from “Creative Commons for Academic Librarians”
This lightning talk will cover five key takeaways from the ten week certificate course on open licensing for academic librarians offered by the Creative Commons organization. The talk will cover basic copyright principles necessary to understand the function and application of open licenses such as creative commons. The five key takeaways will be presented by a medical librarian working at an academic medical library, so the lens of the lightning talk will be focused on the needs of medical libraries. Examples for each takeaway will incorporate challenges, needs, or use cases of institutional repositories at medical institutions. During the lightning talk, the presenter will share free resources to learn more about open licensing. Medical librarians and those supporting medical institutional repositories will be better able to contribute to the Open Access (OA) movement if they are comfortable with open licensing and able to guide patrons and depositors through the open licensing selection and interpretation process. By the end of this lightning talk, attendees will have a basic understanding of creative commons licenses and be able to articulate why they are important to incorporate into institutional repositories.