Friday, October 17, 2008

L&P@CML: Creative Commons

I've known about Creative Commons for some time and taught about this trend and its use. As libraries, and particularly academic libraries, become increasingly involved with open access publishing and digital repositories, every librarian should learn about creative commons copyright and how it can help a library guarantee access to information, even after that information is picked up by a publisher (who increasingly are having to negotiate in some settings where authors have Creative Commons rights). It is very cool to see a sight that provides tools to help promote CC. If you haven't checked it out yet, take a look: http://creativecommons.org/ . Informative, with useful news and services--very cool and important for libraries and librarians to know!

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