Rights and Rewards in Blended Institutional Repositories

Creating a Rights Solution:Analysis of existing licences

Steve Loddington

Survey characteristics

RoMEO Rights & Rewards

Audience International National (UK)

Context Research output Teaching material

Date of survey September 2002 September-October 2005

Method of delivery Online Online

No. of respondents 542 430

The questions used for the rights questions for the Rights & Rewards survey were taken almost verbatim from the RoMEO survey.

Our focus was on teaching material repositories.

Permissions, Restrictions & Conditions required over Open Access Works

Permission Restriction Condition

Display (e.g. may be viewed on screen)

Exact replicas(e.g. the text must not bealtered in any way)

Attribution(e.g. your name should always beclearly displayed on the article)

Give (e.g. copies may be forwarded to colleagues ) For non-commercial purposes (optional)

Print (e.g. copies may be printed out)

Excerpt (e.g. a short passage may be quoted)

Save (e.g. may be saved to disk)

Aggregate (optional) (e.g. may be compiled into an anthology )

Sell (prohibit)(e.g. either on a cost recovery basis or as a commercial enterprise

This was based on any permission, condition or restriction on which over 60% of RoMEO respondents agreed to allow freely

Taken from Gadd, et al. 2004 - RoMEO Studies 6

Survey Results - Permissions

Permission RoMEO (Research) R&R (Teaching)

Display YES YES

Print YES YES

Play YES YES

Save YES YES

Excerpt YES YES

Give YES YES

Lend YES YES

Copy YES YES

Aggregate YES YES

Annotate YES YES

Modify NO YES

Permissions that >60% of respondents would allow either freely or with limits

Restrictions & Conditions

Condition RoMEO (Research) R&R (Teaching)

Author attribution YES YES

Usage tracking NO YES

Agree to terms and conditions

NO YES

User registration NO YES

Restriction

Exact replicas YES NO

For certain purposes YES YES

Conditions and restrictions on which >40% of respondents agreed

Review of licences 1 - OverviewDepositor-repository

licence(s)Repository- end

user licenceRepository

responsibility agreement

Creative Commons

N/a N/a N/a

Ferl No No No

HEA Subject Centre

Database

No No No

JORUM Yes Yes No

LU. IR Yes No Yes

MERLOT Yes Yes No

MIT OCW Yes Yes No

Scran Yes Yes No

Review of licences 2 - permissionsPermission Creative

CommonsFerl HEA

Subject Centre

Database

JORUM L.U. IR

MERLOT MIT OCW

Scran

Display Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Play Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Print Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Save Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No

Give Yes* Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes

Excerpt Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No

Lend Yes* Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes

Copy Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Aggregate Yes* Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No

Annotate Yes* No No Yes No Yes Yes No

Modify Yes* No No Yes No No No No

Sell (prohibit)

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

*Can be prohibited under some Creative Commons licences

Review of licences 3 - conditions

Condition Creative Commons

Ferl HEA Subject Centre

Database

JORUM L.U. IR

MERLOT MIT OCW

Scran

Author attributed Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Usage tracking No No No No No No No No

Users must agree to terms and conditions

No No No Yes No Yes No Yes

Users must register

No No No Yes No No Yes Yes

Review of licences 4 - RestrictionsRestriction For certain purposes Exact replicas

Creative Commons

Yes No

Ferl No No

HEA Subject Centre

Database

No No

JORUM Yes No

Loughborough IR

Yes Yes

MERLOT Yes No

MIT OCW Yes No

Scran Yes Yes

Research material solution for L.U. IR

Condition RoMEO (Research Output)

Creative Commons licence

Author attribution YES Attribution

Usage tracking NO N/A

Users agree to terms and conditions

NO N/A

User registration NO N/A

Restriction

For certain purposes YES Non-commercial

Exact replicas YES No Derivatives

Depositor-Repository licence

• Existing IR licence

Repository-End user licence

• Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial- No Derivatives

Teaching material solution for PEDESTALOverview of solution

Teaching material solution for PEDESTALINTERNAL Depositor-Repository licence

• Variation of the Loughborough IR licence

INTERNAL Repository-End user licence

• JORUM User Agreement

Condition R&R (Teaching material)

JORUM User agreement

Author attribution YES YES

Usage tracking YES NO

Agree to terms and conditions

YES YES

User registration YES YES

Restriction

Exact replicas NO NO

For certain purposes

YES YES

Teaching material solution for PEDESTAL

EXTERNAL Depositor-Repository licence

• Variation of the Loughborough IR licence

EXTERNAL Repository-End user licence

• Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial, share-a-like Licence

Condition R&R (Teaching material)

Creative Commons licence

Author attribution YES YES (Attribution)

Usage tracking YES NO

Users agree to terms and conditions

YES NO

User registration YES NO

Restriction

Exact replicas NO NO (Share-alike)

For certain purposes

YES YES (Non-Commercial)

Reports available…

Project website - http://rightsandrewards.lboro.ac.uk - Copyright Ownership- Final Rights Solution- Examples of support & evaluation of the Rights Solution

Or for further information, please contact;

Charles Oppenheim (Project Director) – c.oppenheim@lboro.ac.uk

Steve Loddington – (Research Assistant) - s.p.loddington@lboro.ac.uk

Thank you!