Frequently Asked Questions

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<p><a href=”https://pose.open.ubc.ca/open-access/pathways-to-open/open-access-basics/”><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Open access (OA</span></a><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of cost or other access barriers.</span></p>
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<p><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Open education encompasses resources, tools and practices that are free of legal, financial and technical barriers and can be fully used, shared and adapted in the digital environment.</span></p>
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<p><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The foundation of open education is open educational resources (OER), which are teaching, learning and research resources that are free of cost and access barriers, and which also carry legal permission for open use. “Open” permissions are typically defined in terms of the “5R’s”: users are free to </span><a href=”http://opencontent.org/definition/”><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Retain, Reuse, Revise, Remix and Redistribute</span></a><span style=”font-weight: 400;”> these educational materials (Adapted from “<a href=”https://sparcopen.org/open-education/”>Open Education</a>”, SPARC,&nbsp; <a href=”https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/”>CC-BY</a>).&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p>There is no one definition of open research and it may be used interchangeably with<a href=”https://osc.cam.ac.uk/open-research”> open science</a>. In general, the term refers to scholarly research practices that adhere to a set of principles that are collaborative, transparent, and reproducible. The <a href=”https://osf.io/a4ftw/”>Open Research Toolkit</a> is an OER designed by Christopher Eaker at the University of Tennessee for librarians learning and teaching open research concepts and skills.</p>
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<p>A license assigned by the copyright owner granting advanced reuse permission to their work. Examples of such licensing schemes include <a href=”https://creativecommons.org/licenses/”>Creative Commons licenses</a>, the <a href=”https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT”>MIT License</a>, the <a href=”https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html”>GNU General Public License</a> etc.</p>
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<p>Author rights<span style=”font-weight: 400;”> refers to the rights of a creator/author and are most often associated with the application of those rights in relation to formal publication. Publishers often ask authors to enter into publication agreements that entail a transfer of copyright ownership from the author to the publisher, resulting in an inability of the original author to disseminate or reuse their work. </span></p>
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<p><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The statement applies to all scholarly and professional work produced by librarians, archivists and staff. Permission from co-authors should be sought.&nbsp; Examples of works include</span>:</p>
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<li><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>articles</span></li>
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<li><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>books and book chapters</span></li>
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<li><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>conference papers, posters, proceedings and presentations</span></li>
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<li><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>reports (e.g. study leave reports)</span></li>
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<li><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>instructional materials such as videos, online courses, audio, presentation, slides, presentation slides, supplementary material and guides (e.g. LibGuides)</span></li>
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<li><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>research,and/or institutional data</span></li>
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<li><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>source code</span></li>
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<p><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>While there is no formal definition of “open operations”, in the context of this statement the term refers to the performance of work involving the practical application of open scholarship principles or processes with a focus on transparency and disclosure.</span></p>
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<p>Both the UBC Library <a href=”mailto:scholarly.communications@ubc.ca”>Scholarly Communications and Copyright Services Office</a> and the <a href=”mailto:circle.repository@ubc.ca”>cIRcle Office</a> provide direction and assessment services in support of the Statement. &nbsp;</p>
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<p>Contact the <a href=”mailto:scholarly.communications@ubc.ca”>UBC Library Scholarly Communications &amp; Copyright Office</a>.</p>
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<p class=”has-background” style=”background-color:#e2e9f5″>The UBC Library Scholarly Communications &amp; Copyright Office, and the cIRcle Office will be responsible for providing guidance and support for adherence to these principles, and for leading the statement assessment.&nbsp;</p>
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