Creative Commons - User contributions [en]

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2014-11-19T20:37:59Z

Billymeinke:

Argentina: Gleducar - Propiedad Intelectual

2014-11-03T21:01:50Z

Billymeinke:

{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Gleducar - Propiedad Intelectual
|OER Policy URL=http://wiki.gleducar.org.ar/index.php/Gleducar_en_Wikipedia/Ingles
|Description=Started in 2002, Gleducar is a community of educators, students, and activists that self-organize around several educational issues and projects. It was declared of National Interest by the Senate of Argentina three years later. Community initiatives revolve around building a repository of open educational resources (OER), promoting more open intellectual property and educational policies, encouraging the use of free technologies and distributed networks, open access, and educational innovation in general. The attached page links to the Gleducar IP policy
|Author=Asociación Civil Gleducar
|OER Policy Date=2010/01/01
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=Spanish
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=National
|Country=Argentina
|OER Policy Institution=Gleducar
|Tag=Intellectual Property
|License short name=CC BY-SA
}}

South Africa: Policy Framework for the Provision of Distance Education in South African Universities

2014-11-03T20:32:03Z

Billymeinke:

{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Policy Framework for the Provision of Distance Education in South African Universities (pdf)
|OER Policy URL=http://www.nadeosa.org.za/sites/default/files/37811_gon535.pdf
|Description="5.2 Collaborative development of high quality learning programmes and resources and use of OER

5.2.1 High quality learning resources are integral to high quality distance education and a growing reliance on resource-based learning among universities generally is noted.

5.2.2 To avoid unnecessary duplication and to encourage increased quality by opening learning resources to public scrutiny, the DHET will pursue the adoption or adaptation, in accordance with national needs, of an appropriate Open Licensing Framework, such as the Creative Commons, for use by all university stakeholders, with an overarching policy framework on intellectual property right and copyright in university education. In particular, in line with the Unesco Paris Declaration on OER of 2012, learning resources developed partly or wholly using public funds administered by the DHET will be published under an open license that encourages their use and adaptation for reuse. The DHET will advocate similar practices in other Government Departments.

5.2.3 Teaching Development Grants will be utilised to encourage collaborative development and use of OERs."
|Author=Department of Higher Education and Training
|OER Policy Date=2014/06/27
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=National
|Country=South Africa,
|OER Policy Institution=Department of Higher Education and Training
|Tag=government
|License short name=copyright
}}
Policy was drafted in 2012, published/adopted in 2014.

South Africa: Policy Framework for the Provision of Distance Education in South African Universities

2014-11-03T20:24:58Z

Billymeinke:

{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Policy Framework for the Provision of Distance Education in South African Universities (pdf)
|OER Policy URL=http://www.nadeosa.org.za/sites/default/files/37811_gon535.pdf
|Description="5.2 Collaborative development of high quality learning programmes and resources and use of OER

5.2.1 High quality learning resources are integral to high quality distance education and a growing reliance on resource-based learning among universities generally is noted.

5.2.2 To avoid unnecessary duplication and to encourage increased quality by opening learning resources to public scrutiny, the DHET will pursue the adoption or adaptation, in accordance with national needs, of an appropriate Open Licensing Framework, such as the Creative Commons, for use by all university stakeholders, with an overarching policy framework on intellectual property right and copyright in university education. In particular, in line with the Unesco Paris Declaration on OER of 2012, learning resources developed partly or wholly using public funds administered by the DHET will be published under an open license that encourages their use and adaptation for reuse. The DHET will advocate similar practices in other Government Departments.

5.2.3 Teaching Development Grants will be utilised to encourage collaborative development and use of OERs."
|Author=Department of Higher Education and Training
|OER Policy Date=2014/07/07
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=National
|Country=South Africa,
|OER Policy Institution=Department of Higher Education and Training
|Tag=government
|License short name=copyright
}}
Policy was drafted in 2012, published/adopted in 2014.

South Africa: Policy Framework for the Provision of Distance Education in South African Universities

2014-11-03T20:24:12Z

Billymeinke:

{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Policy Framework for the Provision of Distance Education in South African Universities (pdf)
|OER Policy URL=http://www.nadeosa.org.za/sites/default/files/37811_gon535.pdf
|Description="5.2 Collaborative development of high quality learning programmes and resources and use of OER

5.2.1 High quality learning resources are integral to high quality distance education and a growing reliance on resource-based learning among universities generally is noted.

5.2.2 To avoid unnecessary duplication and to encourage increased quality by opening learning resources to public scrutiny, the DHET will pursue the adoption or adaptation, in accordance with national needs, of an appropriate Open Licensing Framework, such as the Creative Commons, for use by all university stakeholders, with an overarching policy framework on intellectual property right and copyright in university education. In particular, in line with the Unesco Paris Declaration on OER of 2012, learning resources developed partly or wholly using public funds administered by the DHET will be published under an open license that encourages their use and adaptation for reuse. The DHET will advocate similar practices in other Government Departments.

5.2.3 Teaching Development Grants will be utilised to encourage collaborative development and use of OERs."
|Author=Department of Higher Education and Training
|OER Policy Date=2014/07/07
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=National
|Country=South Africa,
|OER Policy Institution=Department of Higher Education and Training
|Tag=government
|License short name=copyright
}}
Policy was drafted in 2012, adopted in 2014.

Mauritius: Education and Human Resources Strategy Plan 2008-2020

2014-11-03T20:03:01Z

Billymeinke:

{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Education and Human Resources Strategy Plan 2008-2020
|OER Policy URL=http://planipolis.iiep.unesco.org/upload/Mauritius/Mauritius_EHRSP_2008_2020.pdf
|Description=Page 119 of the PDF lists the promotion of OER and establishment of an Online Learner Support System as a strategic priority.
|Author=Ministry of Education, Culture and Human Resources
|OER Policy Date=2009/10/01
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=National
|Country=Mauritius
|OER Policy Institution=
|Tag=education
|License short name=copyright
}}

Slovenia: Opening up Slovenia

2014-11-01T00:47:36Z

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{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Opening up Slovenia
|OER Policy URL=http://www.ouslovenia.net/the-initiative/
|Description="The initiative OpeningupSlovenia was presented in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on April 23, during the OCWC Global conference 2014 with the aim of making Slovenia a model state in the field of accessible and open educational resources and complements into reality the policies of the European Commission’s ‘Opening Up Education’ communication."

"Slovenia wants to make changes in 7 key areas: to transform existing educational methods into innovative, dynamic and open learning tools, to restore an environment of cooperation between public, private and voluntary sectors of research in order to develop and introduce a more open education, to build legal mechanisms in support of implementing open education, to construct an open platform of information technologies, contents, services, pedagogical concepts and approaches, to restore mechanisms for securing a high level of quality and evaluation of services, to develop digital competencies within the entire educational system, and to carry out concrete, cross-dimensional open education projects."
|Author=Opening up Slovenia,
|OER Policy Date=2014/04/23
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=National
|Country=Slovenia,
|OER Policy Institution=
|Tag=
|License short name=copyright
}}
Additional links to information and coverage:
*http://www.oeconsortium.org/openingupslovenia-nationwide-research-environment-in-open-education-slovenia-as-a-model-state/
*http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-464_en.htm
*http://www.openeducationeuropa.eu/en/news/opening-education-initiative-coming-slovenia
*http://www.slideshare.net/OCWConsortium/opening-up-slovenia-ocwcglobal2014
*http://conference.oeconsortium.org/2014/ai1ec_event/openingupslovenia/?instance_id=446
*http://www.k4all.org/openingupslovenia/
*http://www.mizs.gov.si/en/media_room/news/article/55/8712/49ef4689101384d235ef694a56668bb2/

Poland: Cyfrowa szkoła (Digital School)

2014-11-01T00:33:19Z

Billymeinke: Reverted edits by Billymeinke (talk) to last revision by Tarkowski

{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Cyfrowa szkoła (Digital School)
|OER Policy URL=http://www.cyfrowaszkola.men.gov.pl/index.php/informacje-o-programie/dokumenty-i-akty-prawne-programu
|Description=„Digital School” is the newest governmental program for computerisation of Polish schools and raising ICT competences. Pilot of the project is aimed for 380 schools in Poland, it will equip them with hardware (i.e. tablets, computers for students and additional equipment choosen by school) and granted with 80% government funding of the costs (with a 20% contribution by the local government). Program is divided into four segments: e-school (infrastructure and equipment for schools), e-teacher (teacher trainings), e-student (ICT equipment for students) and e-resources (creating open textbooks, redesign of Scholaris, the national platform for educational resources, and production of ICT tools for school management). The e-resources segment includes a free licensing provision for all content produced within the program.
A detailed description of the program can be found here: http://creativecommons.pl/open-educational-resources-in-the-digital-school-program/
|Author=Ministry of Education, Poland
|OER Policy Date=2012/04/03
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=pl
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=National
|Country=Poland
|OER Policy Institution=Ministry of Educaton
|Tag=government, education, k12
|License short name=CC BY
}}
The "Cyfrowa szkoła" program is the first major Polish governmental program to include free licensing rules. The policy decision to construct the program in such manner should be seen in the context of a broader policy initiative to introduce openness of content produced or funded by public institutions. Previously, several other governmental programs have included open licensing conditions, albeit at a smaller scale, or for programs not explicitly set up for content creation (for example, a cultural education grant program run by the Ministry of Culture provided preferential treatment for projects using open licensing; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs uses CC licenses in its development aid grant program).

The policy applies to two types of content to be produced within the program: textbooks and other educational content. Firstly, 18 textbooks will be produced, covering covering early integrated education (grades 1-3) and 13 basic curriculum subjects, for all levels of education (elementary, middle and high school - grades 9-12). Secondly, additional - currently unspecified - resources will be created and published at Scholaris, a national educational resources platform.

The provisions of the program include:
- open licensing of all educational content produced within the program, under CC Attribution (CC BY) or another license meeting the free license definition
- the resources will be made available in at least one open technical format (with its specification made available without legal or technical constraints)
- for content made available online (through http / https protocol), it will be made available in line with current WCAG guidelines

Poland: Cyfrowa szkoła (Digital School)

2014-11-01T00:32:52Z

Billymeinke: Reverted edits by Tarkowski (talk) to last revision by Greg Grossmeier

{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Cyfrowa szkoła (Digital School)
|OER Policy URL=http://www.cyfrowaszkola.men.gov.pl/index.php/informacje-o-programie/dokumenty-i-akty-prawne-programu
|Description=„Digital School” is the newest governmental program for computerisation of Polish schools and raising ICT competences. Pilot of the project is aimed for 380 schools in Poland, it will equip them with hardware (i.e. tablets, computers for students and additional equipment choosen by school) and granted with 80% government funding of the costs (with a 20% contribution by the local government). Program is divided into four segments: e-school (infrastructure and equipment for schools), e-teacher (teacher trainings), e-student (ICT equipment for students) and e-resources (creating open textbooks, redesign of Scholaris, the national platform for educational resources, and production of ICT tools for school management). The e-resources segment includes a free licensing provision for all content produced within the program.
|Author=Ministry of Education, Poland
|OER Policy Date=2012/04/03
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=pl
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=National
|Country=Poland
|OER Policy Institution=Ministry of Educaton
|Tag=government, education, k12
|License short name=CC BY
}}
The "Cyfrowa szkoła" program is the first major Polish governmental program to include free licensing rules. The policy decision to construct the program in such manner should be seen in the context of a broader policy initiative to introduce openness of content produced or funded by public institutions. Previously, several other governmental programs have included open licensing conditions, albeit at a smaller scale, or for programs not explicitly set up for content creation (for example, a cultural education grant program run by the Ministry of Culture provided preferential treatment for projects using open licensing; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs uses CC licenses in its development aid grant program).

The policy applies to two types of content to be produced within the program: textbooks and other educational content. Firstly, 18 textbooks will be produced, covering covering early integrated education (grades 1-3) and 13 basic curriculum subjects, for all levels of education (elementary, middle and high school - grades 9-12). Secondly, additional - currently unspecified - resources will be created and published at Scholaris, a national educational resources platform.

The provisions of the program include:
- open licensing of all educational content produced within the program, under CC Attribution (CC BY) or another license meeting the free license definition
- the resources will be made available in at least one open technical format (with its specification made available without legal or technical constraints)
- for content made available online (through http / https protocol), it will be made available in line with current WCAG guidelines

Case Studies/Hypothesis

2014-10-30T20:17:45Z

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{{Case Study
|Description=Hypothesis is an open annotation tool for all Web documents. The first full version of the Hypothesis annotation tool was launched, with their [https://hypothes.is/terms-of-service/ Terms of Service] noting that all content contributions are made under the CC0 Public Domain Dedication by default.
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|Author=
|User_Status=Curator
|Tag=
|License short name=CC0
|CC adoption date=2014
|Format=Text, Data
|Country=United States
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== Overview ==

'''Please provide an overview of the work. Describe the author or organization (location, funding/business model, partner organizations), objectives, current projects.'''

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== License Usage ==

'''Please specify the license adopted. How is the license applied? Can you provide any available statistics? What has been the author or organization's experience with Creative Commons licenses so far – what have been the benefits and lessons learned?'''

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== Motivations ==

'''How did the author or organization first hear about Creative Commons? Why did they choose to license under Creative Commons? Which license did they select and why? Any other issues you may have come across/comments you’d like to make.'''

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== Impact ==
'''What is the impact of this CC-enabled project or resource? Specifically, what has the license enabled that otherwise would not exist? Provide statistics or other data if possible.'''

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== Technical Details ==

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== Media ==
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2014-10-30T20:15:15Z

Billymeinke:

CC0 use for data

2014-10-30T20:09:53Z

Billymeinke: Added Hypothes.is CC0 adoption

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[[CC0]] (read “CC Zero”) is a universal public domain dedication that may be used by anyone wishing to permanently surrender the copyright and database rights (where they exist) they may have in a work, thereby placing it as nearly as possible into the public domain. CC0 is a legal tool that improves on the “dedication” function of our earlier, [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ U.S.-centric public domain dedication and certification]. CC0 is universal in form and may be used throughout the world for any kind of content without adaptation to account for laws in different jurisdictions. And like our licenses, CC0 has the benefit of being expressed in three ways – legal code, a human readable deed, and machine-readable code that allows works distributed under CC0 to be easily found.

CC0 can be particularly important for the sharing of data and databases, since it otherwise may be unclear whether highly factual data and databases are restricted by copyright or other rights. Databases may contain facts that, in and of themselves, are not protected by copyright law. However, the copyright laws of many jurisdictions cover creatively selected or arranged compilations of facts and creative database design and structure, and some jurisdictions like those in the European Union have enacted additional sui generis laws that restrict uses of databases without regard for applicable copyright law. CC0 is intended to cover all copyright and database rights, so that however data and databases are restricted (under copyright or otherwise), those rights are all surrendered. CC0 is also [http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing/open-access-data-protocol/ particularly relevant to scientific data]. An opinion piece in <em>Nature</em> on "[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7261/full/461171a.html Post-publication sharing of data and tools]" explicitly recommends open sharing and the use of CC0 to put data in the public domain:

<blockquote>"Although it is usual practice for major public databases to make data freely available to access and use, any restrictions on use should be strongly resisted and we endorse explicit encouragement of open sharing, for example under the newly available CC0 public domain waiver of Creative Commons."</blockquote>

==CC0 use cases==
This is a list of uses of CC0 for data and databases. For uses of CC licenses, see [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Data_and_CC_licenses Data and CC Licenses].

===BioMed Central===
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BioMed Central (BMC) is one of the largest open access (OA) publishers in the world with 250 peer-reviewed OA journals, and more than 100,000 OA articles published yearly. BMC is also long-time user of CC licenses to accomplish its mission of husbanding and promoting open science. BMC has been publishing articles under a CC license since 2004. Starting September 3, 2013, in keeping with its forward-looking mission, BMC [https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/41329 started] [http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcblog/2013/12/18/cc-by-4-0/ requiring] a CC0 Public Domain Dedication for data supporting the published articles.
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===[[Case_Studies/British_Library|The British Library]]===
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The British Library released a large set of their bibliographic data into the public domain via the CC0 public domain dedication. This set is from the British National Bibliography, which contains data on publishing activity from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland since 1950, and comprises 20% of the entire British Library catalog. The dataset currently consists of 3 million individual records.
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===[[Case_Studies/CERN|CERN Library]]===
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CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research that is home to the Large Hadron Collider and birthplace of the web, released its book catalog into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/Cologne-based_Libraries|Cologne-based Libraries]]===
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All [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data bibliographic data from Cologne-based libraries] are available to the public with no known copyright restrictions. Cologne-based libraries who surrendered their copyrights using the CC0 public domain dedication include the University and Public Library of Cologne (USB), the Library of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, the University Library of the University of Applied Science of Cologne, and the LBZ. The data is currently linked from the [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)]. For more info, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21344 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Digg|Digg]]===
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All content on [http://digg.com/ Digg], a social news website, is defaulted under CC0, which means that Digg has surrendered all copyrights to its content. Content includes readers' comments, story titles, story descriptions, and all of the other user-contributed content on the Digg site. For more info, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/14752 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Digital_Public_Library_of_America|Digital Public Library of America]]===
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The DPLA is committed to asserting no new rights—and will claim no rights—over the metadata that it aggregates from its various data-providing partners. It has also pledged to make all of this metadata freely available under the CC0 Public Domain Dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/Dryad|Dryad]]===
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Dryad is an online repository for data contained in academic papers and other publications in the sciences. The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center and the University of North Carolina Metadata Research Center, in partnership with various [http://datadryad.org/partners journals and societies], comprise the development of Dryad's data set, all of which is released under the CC0 public domain dedication.
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=== European Union ===
The European Commission released [https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/43316 licensing recommendations] to support the reuse of public sector information in Europe. In addition to providing guidance on baseline license principles for public sector content and data, the guidelines suggest that Member States should adopt standardized open licenses – such as Creative Commons licenses. "Open standard licences, for example the most recent Creative Commons (CC) licences (version 4.0), could allow the re-use of PSI without the need to develop and update custom-made licences at national or sub-national level. Of these, the CC0 public domain dedication is of particular interest. As a legal tool that allows waiving copyright and database rights on PSI, it ensures full flexibility for re-users and reduces the complications associated with handling numerous licences, with possibly conflicting provisions."

===[[Case_Studies/Europeana|Europeana]]===
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Europeana — Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, and the first major adopter of the Public Domain Mark — has adopted a new Data Exchange Agreement which releases metadata for millions of cultural works into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/FigShare|FigShare]]===
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Researchers can publish their data on FigShare in a "citable, searchable, and shareable manner." According to FigShare's [http://figshare.com/faqs FAQ], "All figures, media and multiple file uploads are published under a CC BY license. All datasets are published under CC0."
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===[[Case_Studies/Flickr_Case_Study|Flickr]]===
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[http://flickr.com Flickr] published its [http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/05/21/flickr-shapefiles-public-dataset-10/ shapefile dataset] online, surrendering all copyrights via the CC0 public domain dedication. A shapefile is a file containing shapes mathematically generated by thousands of Flickr geotagged photos of particular neighborhoods, countries, and continents. Shapefile data has been used to reverse-engineer maps with user generated longitude and latitude coordinates that are then demarcated by Where-On-Earth IDs, "[http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/10/30/the-shape-of-alpha/ unique numeric identifiers that correspond to the hierarchy of places where a photo was taken: the neighbourhood, the town, the county, and so on up to the continent]." For more information, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/14678 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Genomes Unzipped|Genomes Unzipped]]===
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Genomes Unzipped is a project that aims to inform the public about genetics via the independent analysis of open genetic data, volunteered by a core group of genetics researchers and specialists. Genomes Unzipped genetic data is available in the public domain via the [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 public domain dedication], while other site content is defaulted under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC BY-SA].
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===German National Library===
The German National Library has begun publishing its standard data as public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication tool.
*http://de.creativecommons.org/2012/01/27/normdaten-deutsche-nationalbibliothek-kundigt-umstellung-auf-cc0-an/

===[[Case_Studies/Wikipedia, German|German Wikipedia]]===
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The German Wikipedia uses CC0 to dedicate data into the public domain; specifically, their PND-BEACON files are available for download. Since Wikipedia links out to quite a number of external resources, and since a lot of articles link to the same external resources, PND-BEACON files are the German Wikipedia’s way of organizing the various data.
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===[[Case_Studies/GlaxoSmithKline|GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)]]===
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One of the leading pharmaceutical companies in the world, [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chemblntd/#tcams_dataset GlaxoSmithKline] has surrendered all copyrights in its malarial data set via CC0, which includes more than 13,500 compounds known to be active against malaria.
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===[[Case_Studies/Harvard Library|Harvard Library]]===
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Harvard Library has [http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&pageid=icb.page498373 released 12 million catalog records] into the public domain using CC0, in accordance with it [http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/ Open Metadata Policy]. Its [http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/public_faq FAQ] explains why.
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===[[Case_Studies/Hypothesis|Hypothesis]]===
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By default, all public contributions (annotations) made with the Hypothes.is open annotation tool are dedicated to the public domain via the CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Hypothes.is' [https://hypothes.is/terms-of-service/ TOU] covers this policy in more detail.
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===[[Case_Studies/National_Library_of_Spain|National Library of Spain]]===
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datos.bne.es is a joint project of Ontology Engineering Group (OEG) and the National Library of Spain, for the enrichment of the Semantic Web with bibliographic data from their catalog. This initiative has been launched with the publication, in accordance with the principles of Linked Data, information from library catalogs and authority, making knowledge bases available as RDF (Resource Description Framework). Furthermore, these data are interrelated with other existing knowledge bases in the Linking Open Data initiative. Thus, Spain is in addition to projects that other institutions like the British Library and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek have recently begun. The 2.4 million bibliographic records are published according to the specifications and conditions of the Creative Commons Zero (CC0).
*http://www.bne.es/es/Catalogos/DatosEnlazados/index.html
*http://www.bne.es/es/Catalogos/DatosEnlazados/DescargaFicheros/

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===[[Case_Studies/Piemonte_Regional_Government|Italian Piemonte Regional Government]]===
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The Piemonte Regional Government in Italy has adopted the CC0 public domain dedication for its open data portal (dati.piemonte.it). The Piemonte Region is leading the open data movement in Italy at the government level, being the only regional government to open up all its data for reuse without restrictions.
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===[[Case_Studies/MichiganView|MichiganView]]===
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Using CC0, [http://wiki.americaview.org/display/miview/Home MichiganView] has surrendered all copyrights to its 93+ Gigabytes of Landsat 5 and 7, and NAIP imagery data. The MichiganView consortium makes available aerial photography and satellite imagery of Michigan to the public for free over the Web. As part of the AmericaView consortium, MichiganView supports access and use of these imagery collections through education, workforce development, and research. For more info, see the [http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2010/01/29/michiganview-releases-remote-sensing-data-under-cc0-waiver/ blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Nature_Publishing_Group_linked_data|Nature Publishing Group linked data]]===
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Nature Publishing Group (NPG) provides access to its publication data via the linked data platform at [http://data.nature.com http://data.nature.com]. The platform includes more than 20 million Resource Description Framework (RDF) statements, including primary metadata for more than 450,000 articles published by NPG since 1869. The datasets include basic citation information (title, author, publication date, etc) as well as NPG specific ontologies. These datasets are released under Creative Commons Zero (CC0), which permits maximal use/re-use of this data. Nature's ''Scientific Data'' publication also [http://blogs.nature.com/scientificdata/2013/12/09/metadata-associated-with-data-descriptor-articles-to-be-released-under-cc0-waiver/ announced] it would release all machine-readable metadata accompanying Data Descriptor articles under CC0 to enable advanced users to mine and search our content without legal ambiguity.
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===[[Case_Studies/Netherlands_Government|Netherlands Government]]===
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The [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl Netherlands government] launched [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/ www.rijksoverheid.nl], a single website for all Dutch ministries, in March 2010. The default copyright policy for site content is that there is no copyright; using the CC0 public domain dedication, the government surrendered all copyrights in site. The purpose of [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/ www.rijksoverheid.nl] is to establish one central location or portal through which all government organizations and ministries can be accessed by the public. The migration process is currently underway. For more info, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21473 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/New_York_Public_Library_bibliographic_metadata|NYPL Bibliographic Metadata and Cartographic Works]]===
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NYPL's bibliographic metadata records provided through the [http://api.repo.nypl.org/ NYPL Repository API] are distributed under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. Although the bibliographic metadata records are provided consistent with CC0 1.0 Dedication, the content described by the metadata records is not. Content may be subject to copyright, rights of privacy, rights of publicity and other restrictions. The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division of NYPL has also [http://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/03/28/open-access-maps released more than 20,000 cartographic works] as high resolution downloads using CC0.
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===Open Clinical Innovation Network===
The Open Clinical Innovation Network seeks to transform clinical research and development by openly sharing clinical tools and data via the CC0 public domain dedication, thereby enabling open innovation. More from the [http://portal.lillycoi.com/2012/04/03/open-innovation-can-transform-clinical-development/ announcement]. Still in its initial stages, you can read the white paper ([https://s3.amazonaws.com/lillycoi/Clinical_Open_Innovation_White_Paper.pdf pdf]) and check out its first tool, [http://www.clinicalcollections.org/trials/ Clinical Commons].

===[[Case_Studies/Open Library|Open Library]]===
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An initiative of the Internet Archive, the Open Library is an online catalog that aims to provide a web page for every book ever published. Drawing from existing library catalogs around the world and user contributions, the Open Library has 20 million records to date and provides access to 1.7 million scanned books. All rights to Open Library data are surrendered via [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0].
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===[[Case_Studies/OpenEI|OpenEI]]===
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An initiative of the U.S. Department of Energy, OpenEI is a linked open data platform that releases all contributions to the public under the CC0 public domain dedication. It is a community effort devoted to assembling the world's most comprehensive collection of energy information--including datasets, tools, and models.
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===[[Case_Studies/OpenJurist|OpenJurist.org]]===
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Using CC0, [http://openjurist.org/terms-of-use OpenJurist], a resource for case law in the U.S., has made available all Supreme Court and Federal Appellate Court Decisions from the 1700s to the current day.
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===[[Case_Studies/Personal_Genome_Project|Personal Genome Project]]===
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[http://www.personalgenomes.org/ The Personal Genome Project], a pioneer in the emerging field of personal genomics technology, released a large data set containing genomic sequences for ten individuals using CC0, with future planned releases also to be under CC0.
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===[[Case_Studies/Polar_Information_Commons|Polar Information Commons]]===
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The [http://www.polarcommons.org/ Polar Information Commons], a data sharing project growing out of the most recent International Polar Year, has enabled researchers to release their polar data into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication. For those sharing their data, the Polar Information Commons has outlined [http://www.polarcommons.org/ethics-and-norms-of-data-sharing.php Ethics and Norms of Data Sharing].
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===[[Case_Studies/Proteome_Commons|Proteome Commons Tranche Network]]===
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[https://proteomecommons.org/tranche/ Proteome Commons Tranche Network], a public proteomics database for annotations and other information that uses Tranche, a free and open source (Apache 2.0) file storage and dissemination software, has enabled the CC0 public domain dedication as the default uploading option for users.
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===[[Case_Studies/Public.Resource.Org|Public.resource.org]]===
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[http://public.resource.org/uscourts.gov/index.html 1.8 million pages of U.S. Courts of Appeals decisions] (since 1950 onwards) were delivered back into the public domain by [http://public.resource.org/ public.resource.org], who officially surrendered all copyrights in the case law using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Research Libraries UK (RLUK)]]===

"The data provided by RLUK will additionally be made available as Linked Open Data. This is part of The European Library's aim of working with its members to expose a set of their combined bibliographic metadata as a CC0 dataset - a dataset openly available for any type of reuse. RLUK's valuable data will now be integrated into the larger European Library set, thereby providing a rich source of reusable knowledge from Europe's most prestigious libraries." -- http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newsitem/2450

===[[Case_Studies/Safecast|Safecast]]===
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Safecast releases radiation data from the fallout in Fukushima under CC0.
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===[[Case_Studies/Sage_Bionetworks_-_Sage_Commons|Sage Bionetworks - Sage Commons]]===
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[http://sagebase.org/commons/ Sage Commons] is a public resource and information platform for scientists, research foundations, and research institutions to share and develop human disease and biological research. Sage Commons will enable the CC0 public domain dedication as an option for surrendering copyright in data hosted in the network. The [http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/sagecite/ SageCite project], driven by UKOLN, the University of Manchester, and the British Library, and funded by JISC, is set to develop and test an entire framework for citation norms, not attribution, using bioinformatics as a test case.
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===SCOAP3 Repository===
"The repository will also make available the corresponding metadata, under a CC0 license. Metadata will include of course the article DOIs and the ORCID IDs of all authors, when available."
* http://scoap3.org/scoap3-repository
* http://press.web.cern.ch/press-releases/2013/12/open-access-publishing-initiative-scoap3-start-1-january-2014

===Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Museum===
The Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Museum has released its collection data into the public domain using CC0.
*http://www.cooperhewitt.org/collections/data
*http://media.cooperhewitt.org.s3.amazonaws.com/2012/02/23/Cooper-Hewitt%20Metadata%20Press%20Release%202-23-12.pdf

===[[Case_Studies/SimpleGeo|SimpleGeo]]===
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http://blog.simplegeo.com/2011/04/20/open-places-data/
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===[[Case_Studies/Swedish National Library|Swedish National Library]]===
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The Swedish National Library signed an agreement in September 2011 that [http://librisbloggen.kb.se/2011/09/21/swedish-national-bibliography-and-authority-data-released-with-open-license/ released] the Swedish National Bibliography and authority files into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/Talis_Connected_Commons|Talis Connected Commons]]===
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The [http://www.talis.com/platform/cc/ Talis Connected Commons] is a project by Talis that works to encourage the growth of public domain data. Talis offers free data hosting on its platform as long as the data is made available under either the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication or the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/University of Florida Library|University of Florida Library]]===
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The University of Florida Smathers Libraries has implemented a default public domain policy for all of its original catalog data. The library has released its book catalog into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication tool, opening up downstream reuse of the data without restrictions.
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===[[Case_Studies/University_of_Michigan_Library|University of Michigan Library]]===
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The University of Michigan Library has surrendered all copyright in its [http://www.lib.umich.edu/open-access-bibliographic-records Open Access bibliographic records] via CC0. As of November 17, 2010, the Library released 684,597 bibliographic records into the public domain. The Library also defaults all of its site content under the most open CC license - CC BY.
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===[[Case_Studies/WisconsinView|WisconsinView]]===
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Using CC0, [http://www.wisconsinview.org/ WisconsinView] has surrendered all copyrights in its 6+ Terabytes of imagery data. The WisconsinView consortium makes available aerial photography and satellite imagery of Wisconsin to the public for free over the Web. As part of the AmericaView consortium, WisconsinView supports access and use of these imagery collections through education, workforce development, and research. For more info, see the [http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2009/07/01/wisconsinview-public-domain/ blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centre|Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centre]]===
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The Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centre has published [http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/ its datasets at Canadensys] via the CC0 public domain dedication, and encourages the rest of the Canadensys community to [http://www.canadensys.net/2012/why-we-should-publish-our-data-unde-cc0 do the same].
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===U.S. Food and Drug Administration===
openFDA is a "new initiative in the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Informatics and Technology Innovation spearheaded by FDA’s Chief Health Informatics Officer. OpenFDA offers easy access to FDA public data and highlight projects using these data in both the public and private sector to further regulatory or scientific missions, educate the public, and save lives." According to openFDA's [http://open.fda.gov/terms/ TOU], "Unless otherwise noted, the content, data, documentation, code, and related materials on openFDA is public domain and made available with a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal dedication."

===U.S. Government Data===
U.S. Open Data Action plan is under CC0 + some federal datasets: report ([http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/us_open_data_action_plan.pdf pdf]); [http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/05/09/continued-progress-and-plans-open-government-data-0 blog post]

===[[Case_Studies/Wikidata|Wikidata]]===
"Wikidata is a free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. It is for data what Wikimedia Commons is for media files: it centralizes access to and management of structured data, such as interwiki references and statistical information. Wikidata contains data in all languages for which there are Wikimedia projects." All structured data from the main and property namespace is available via Creative Commons CC0. More info:
* https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page
* https://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/04/24/wikidata-all-around-the-world/
* http://www.ghacks.net/2013/04/26/wikidata-is-a-huge-step-for-wikipedia-and-the-internet/

==Other CC0 use cases==

===[[Case_Studies/Mercy Corps|Mercy Corps]]===
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Mercy Corps is a disaster relief organization that has released its package of office management materials (Office in a Box) into the public domain via CC0 for the start-up of new field offices in disaster areas and the improvement of operations in existing offices.
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===[[Case_Studies/Open Clip Art Library|Open Clip Art Library]]===
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All clip art packages generated and uploaded by the Open Clip Art Library community are free to use, distribute, and remix under the CC0 public domain dedication.
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[[Category:CC0]]
[[Category:Data]]

4.0 adoptions

2014-10-10T00:53:53Z

Billymeinke:

This page lists the current and in progress 4.0 adoptions by creators, organizations, and institutions.

== Completed ==
* Honda 3D concept models (CC BY-NC) - https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/41895
* Paleobiology Database (CC BY) - https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/41216
* BioMed Central (CC BY) - https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/41329
* Fixing the Broken Textbook Market report by U.S. PIRG (CC BY) - http://uspirg.org/reports/usp/fixing-broken-textbook-market
* PLOS - http://www.plos.org/
* figshare - http://figshare.com/cc_license
* PeerJ - http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/41983
* Snowden and the Future series - http://snowdenandthefuture.info/index.html
* Parker Higgins: http://parkerhiggins.net/
* Mediagoblin campaign video: http://mediagoblin.org/pages/campaign.html
* All of these Wikimedia Commons uploaders:
** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:CC-BY-4.0
** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:CC-BY-SA-4.0
* National Writing Project's Digital Is (CC BY-SA) - http://digitalis.nwp.org/terms-of-use
* Connexions - http://cnx.org/ (CC BY)
* Chemistry Central (CC BY) - https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/41329; http://www.chemistrycentral.com/about/license
* SpringerOpen (CC BY) - https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/41329; http://www.springeropen.com/about/license
* Opensource.com (CC BY-SA) - http://opensource.com/14/3/community/update-terms-use
* University of Maryland, Global Forest Change 2000-2012, data download - http://earthenginepartners.appspot.com/science-2013-global-forest/download.html
* U.S. Department of Labor H1-B Ready to Work Partnership Grants program (CC BY) - http://www.doleta.gov/readytowork/; [http://www.doleta.gov/grants/pdf/SGA_DFA_PY_13_07.pdf SGA (pdf)]
* Oppia - https://www.oppia.org/about (CC BY-SA)
* P2PU data release - http://data.p2pu.org/release-1/
* LWN articles, after subscription period (up to 2 weeks) (CC BY-SA): https://web.archive.org/web/20140501163124/https://lwn.net/op/AuthorGuide.lwn
* USHistory.org textbooks: [http://www.ushistory.org/us/ American History], [http://www.ushistory.org/civ/index.asp Ancient Civilizations], and [http://www.ushistory.org/gov/index.asp American Government].
* Mozilla Science Lab - http://mozillascience.org/

== In progress ==
''Planning or considering upgrade to 4.0''
* Peer 2 Peer University (CC BY-SA) - http://p2pu.org
* Blackboard xpLor (various) - http://www.blackboard.com/xplor
* SciStarter (CC BY or BY-SA) - http://www.scistarter.com

IRC

2014-09-25T18:18:06Z

Billymeinke:

For those not familar with IRC have a look at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat Wikipedia definition] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IRC_clients download a software program] for your operating-system so you can participate in the CC channel.

There is a Creative Commons IRC channel on the [http://freenode.net/ freenode] network, called '''[irc://irc.freenode.net/creativecommons #creativecommons]'''.

There is also a channel for CC's free software development work: '''[irc://irc.freenode.net/creativecommons-dev #creativecommons-dev]'''.

==People==
Some people use IRC nicks that may or may not correspond to their actual names, and sometimes it's just not clear who people are. If you would like to be listed so that people can better identify you, add yourself here (in alphabetical order):

* billytwosheds: Billy Meinke, CC Education staff
* mattl: Matt Lee, CC Tech
* mindspillage (or mind|wandering): Kat Walsh, CC Legal staff.
* stace: Paul Stacey, CC Education staff
* tvol: Timothy Vollmer, CC Policy staff.

== IRC help ==

Nicknames on IRC are on a per-server basis. We use the freenode server exclusively, so registering a nickname is a one-time deal.

First change your nickname to something unique:

/nick mattl

=== Registration ===

When you have chosen your nickname register it with the nickname service.

/msg nickserv register password email

Replacing password with a strong password and email with your email address. For example:

/msg nickserv register sci3nce!! punkish@creativecommons.biz

You should save this password in your IRC client, if you can.

'''On IRCCloud:'''

* Click the name of the network (freenode) on the right of the screen
* Then click edit
* Expand the advanced options to find a place to save your nickserv password.

[[File:IRCCloudNicknames.png]]

US: Minnesota: S.F. 1236

2014-07-24T00:28:40Z

Billymeinke:

{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Minnesota S.F. 1236
|OER Policy URL=https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=senate&f=SF1236&ssn=0&y=2013
|Description=State bill passed in 2013 SF1236 including the expanded use of OER as as a performance goal for the MnSCU system.

"(4) by 2014, MnSCU must collect data on the number of Open Educational Resources (OER) tools and services offered and formulate a plan to actualize a one percent reduction in expenses directly related to the cost of instruction incurred by students; and<br>
(5) reallocate $22,000,000 that became available through expense realignment in fiscal year 2014.<br>
<br>
"Open Educational Resources" includes, but is not limited to, textbooks, study guides, worksheets, journals, video, audio recordings, massive open online courses, or other innovative course configuration."
|Author=Bonoff, Clausen, Dziedzic
|OER Policy Date=2013/03/11
|OER Policy Status=Proposed
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=Province / State
|Country=United States of America,
|License short name=copyright
}}

US: Virginia: Technology Strategic Plan

2014-07-24T00:13:28Z

Billymeinke:

{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Technology Strategic Plan
|OER Policy URL=http://old.vccs.edu/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=_6Trq2XByjk%3D&tabid=861
|Description=<br>"'''Open Education Resources'''<br>
Project Description:<br>
Course materials often make up a significant portion of course curricula and having access to them is often essential to a student’s success in the class. However, the increasing costs of college textbooks are creating a significant barrier to the success of students. Over the last decade, the average cost of college textbooks has risen at four times the rate of inflation. For the average community college student, the cost of books can add up to about 72% of their college tuition. The VCCS is actively working to reduce these costs for its students by supporting several innovative initiatives.<br>
'''Expected Goals/Deliverable:'''
*Recommendations for reducing textbook costs across the system from the Textbook Costs and Digital Learning Resources Work Group
*Mini-grants through the Chancellor’s Innovation Fund to develop open educational resources
*Open & Digital Learning Resources Conference to share innovative OER initiatives at institutions across the state.
*Faculty adoption of free openly-licensed materials for high-enrollment courses (12 grants awarded to identify, review, and customize existing high quality OER to incorporate as the only required material in the course)
'''Impact to Colleges:'''<br>
Improve the success of VCCS students by identifying ways to use digital technology and open educational resources to reduce the costs of college and improve the success of VCCS students."<br>
|Author=Unknown
|OER Policy Date=2013/04/01
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=System
|Country=United States of America,
|OER Policy Institution=Virginia Community College System
|License short name=copyright
}}

US: Virginia: Technology Strategic Plan

2014-07-24T00:12:48Z

Billymeinke: Created page with "{{OER Policy |OER Policy Title=Technology Strategic Plan |OER Policy URL=http://old.vccs.edu/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=_6Trq2XByjk%3D&tabid=861 |Description="'''Open Education..."

{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Technology Strategic Plan
|OER Policy URL=http://old.vccs.edu/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=_6Trq2XByjk%3D&tabid=861
|Description="'''Open Education Resources'''<br>
Project Description:<br>
Course materials often make up a significant portion of course curricula and having access to them is often essential to a student’s success in the class. However, the increasing costs of college textbooks are creating a significant barrier to the success of students. Over the last decade, the average cost of college textbooks has risen at four times the rate of inflation. For the average community college student, the cost of books can add up to about 72% of their college tuition. The VCCS is actively working to reduce these costs for its students by supporting several innovative initiatives.<br>
'''Expected Goals/Deliverable:'''
*Recommendations for reducing textbook costs across the system from the Textbook Costs and Digital Learning Resources Work Group
*Mini-grants through the Chancellor’s Innovation Fund to develop open educational resources
*Open & Digital Learning Resources Conference to share innovative OER initiatives at institutions across the state.
*Faculty adoption of free openly-licensed materials for high-enrollment courses (12 grants awarded to identify, review, and customize existing high quality OER to incorporate as the only required material in the course)
'''Impact to Colleges:'''<br>
Improve the success of VCCS students by identifying ways to use digital technology and open educational resources to reduce the costs of college and improve the success of VCCS students."<br>
|Author=Unknown
|OER Policy Date=2013/04/01
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=System
|Country=United States of America,
|OER Policy Institution=Virginia Community College System
|License short name=copyright
}}

US: Oregon: OSU Open Textbook Initiative

2014-07-23T23:49:53Z

Billymeinke: Created page with "{{OER Policy |OER Policy Title=OSU Open Textbook Initiative |OER Policy URL=http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2014/feb/osu-open-textbook-initiative-aims-reduce-student-co..."

{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=OSU Open Textbook Initiative
|OER Policy URL=http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2014/feb/osu-open-textbook-initiative-aims-reduce-student-costs-enhance-learning
|Description="The open textbook initiative is a collaboration between OSU Libraries, OSU Press and OSU Extended Campus that provides financial, technical and editorial support for faculty members to create “open” texts that aim to reduce costs for students and further position Oregon State as a leader in research and teaching."<br>

"In addition to relieving students of ever-increasing costs, these works will also feature interactive content that enhances learning through video, audio and other multimedia. The textbooks will be incorporated into OSU curriculum and '''include Creative Commons licenses to facilitate their use at other universities at no cost.'''"<br>
|Author=Unknown,
|OER Policy Date=2014/02/12
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=System
|Country=United States of America,
|OER Policy Institution=Oregon State University
|Tag=open textbooks
|License short name=copyright
}}

US: Oklahoma: Alternative Textbook Initiative

2014-07-23T23:42:01Z

Billymeinke: Created page with "{{OER Policy |OER Policy Title=Alternative Textbook Initiative |OER Policy URL=http://guides.ou.edu/alternativetextbooks |Description="The purpose of this initiative is to sup..."

{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Alternative Textbook Initiative
|OER Policy URL=http://guides.ou.edu/alternativetextbooks
|Description="The purpose of this initiative is to support faculty in the adoption of affordable textbook solutions to reduce the cost of textbooks and materials for students. Alternative Textbooks give faculty members the power to customize content specifically for their courses as well as provide less expensive textbooks for their students."
|Author=Unknown
|OER Policy Date=2009/01/01
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=System
|Country=United States of America,
|OER Policy Institution=Oklahoma University Libraries
|Tag=open textbooks
|License short name=copyright
}}
Additional links:<br>
*[http://www.ou.edu/content/cte/initiatives/textbook-alternatives.html OU Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE)]

US: North Dakota: HCR 3013

2014-07-23T23:25:59Z

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{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=North Dakota HCR 3013
|OER Policy URL=http://www.nd.gov/sos/lr/scannedbills/3013.pdf
|Description=HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 3013<br>
"A concurrent resolution urging the State Board of Higher Education and faculty members of North Dakota University System institutions to increase the use of open textbooks for academic courses in order to reduce the financial burden to higher education students."<br>

"WHEREAS, open textbooks are published under a license that enables students to obtain free or low-cost versions of electronic or printed academic textbooks; and"<br>

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF NORTH DAKOTA, THE SENATE CONCURRING THEREIN:<br>

That the Sixty-third Legislative Assembly urges the State Board of Higher Education and faculty members of North Dakota University System institutions to increase the use of open textbooks for academic courses in order to reduce the financial burden to higher education students and"<br>

"BE IT FURTHER RESOLVES, that the Secretary of State forward copies of this resolution to each member of the States Board of Higher Education, to the Chancellor of the North Dakota University System, and to each North Dakota University System institution president."

"WHEREAS, the use of open textbooks can significantly reduce higher education costs for students which increases student access to higher education; and"<br>

"WHEREAS, the use of open textbooks among all North Dakota University System institutions and other states' higher education systems for common core courses may result in efficiencies reducing state costs related to higher education."<br>

|Author=Unknown,
|OER Policy Date=2013/01/08
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=Province / State
|Country=United States of America,
|OER Policy Institution=University of North Dakota System
|Tag=open textbooks
|License short name=copyright
}}

US: North Dakota: HCR 3009

2014-07-23T23:14:47Z

Billymeinke:

{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=North Dakota HCR 3009
|OER Policy URL=http://www.nd.gov/sos/lr/scannedbills/3009.pdf
|Description=HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 3009<br>
"A concurrent resolution directing the Legislative Management to study the use of open textbooks in the North Dakota University System, including options to develop partnerships with the other states to use open textbooks."

"NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF NORTH DAKOTA, THE SENATE CONCURRING THEREIN: <br>
That the Legislative Management study of the use of open textbooks in the North Dakota University System, including options to develop partnerships with other states to use open textbooks; and<br>
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the legislative Management required to implement the recommendations..."
|Author=Unknown
|OER Policy Date=2013/01/08
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=System
|Country=United States of America,
|OER Policy Institution=University of North Dakota System
|Tag=open textbooks
|License short name=copyright
}}

US: North Dakota: HCR 3009

2014-07-23T23:07:49Z

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{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=North Dakota HCR 3009
|OER Policy URL=http://www.nd.gov/sos/lr/scannedbills/3009.pdf
|Description=HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 3009<br>
"A concurrent resolution urging the State Board of Higher Education and faculty members of North Dakota University System institutions to increase the use of open textbooks for academic courses in order to reduce the financial burden to higher education students."

"NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF NORTH DAKOTA, THE SENATE CONCURRING THEREIN: <br>
That the Legislative Management study of the use of open textbooks in the North Dakota University System, including options to develop partnerships with other states to use open textbooks; and<br>
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the legislative Management required to implement the recommendations..."
|Author=Unknown
|OER Policy Date=2013/01/08
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=System
|Country=United States of America,
|OER Policy Institution=University of North Dakota System
|Tag=open textbooks
|License short name=copyright
}}

US: New York: Open SUNY Textbooks

2014-07-23T22:25:35Z

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{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Open SUNY Textbooks
|OER Policy URL=http://opensuny.org/omp/index.php/SUNYOpenTextbooks
|Description="Open SUNY Textbooks is an open access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants. This pilot initiative publishes high-quality, cost-effective course resources by engaging faculty as authors and peer-reviewers, and libraries as publishing service and infrastructure."
|Author=Unknown
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=System
|Country=United States of America,
|OER Policy Institution=State University of New York System
|Tag=open textbooks
|License short name=copyright
}}

US: Minnesota: S.F. 1236

2014-07-23T22:18:00Z

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{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Minnesota S.F. 1236
|OER Policy URL=https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=senate&f=SF1236&ssn=0&y=2013
|Description=State bill passed in 2013 SF1236 including the expanded use of OER as as a performance goal for the MnSCU system.

"(4) by 2014, MnSCU must collect data on the number of Open Educational Resources
(OER) tools and services offered and formulate a plan to actualize a one percent
reduction in expenses directly related to the cost of instruction incurred by students; and
(5) reallocate $22,000,000 that became available through expense realignment in fiscal year 2014.<br>
<br>
"Open Educational Resources" includes, but is not limited to, textbooks, study
guides, worksheets, journals, video, audio recordings, massive open online courses, or other innovative course configuration."
|Author=Bonoff, Clausen, Dziedzic
|OER Policy Date=2013/03/11
|OER Policy Status=Proposed
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=Province / State
|Country=United States of America,
|License short name=copyright
}}

US: Michigan: Open Michigan

2014-07-23T22:09:12Z

Billymeinke:

{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Open Michigan
|OER Policy URL=http://open.umich.edu/education
|Description="The University of Michigan (U-M) is a large public university with over 58,000 students and 8,000
instructional staff across three campuses. The Open.Michigan initiative is based on the principle that
public universities have a responsibility to share the knowledge and resources they create with the public
they serve. By providing tools, expertise and support, Open.Michigan enables U-M faculty, students, staff and
others to share their educational resources and research with the world.<br>

Open.Michigan is committed to open content licensing and supporting the use, redistribution, and adaptation of educational materials. Open.Michigan projects exemplify the diversity of initiatives underway at U-M that relate to and support open access. The Open.Michigan community connect"
|Author=Unknown
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=Institution - Tertiary
|Country=United States of America,
|OER Policy Institution=University of Michigan
|Tag=open textbooks
|License short name=copyright
}}
Additional links:<br>
*[http://open.umich.edu/sites/default/files/3659/PDFs/open.michigan-2page-infosheet.pdf Open.Michigan Infosheet]

US: Michigan: Open Michigan

2014-07-23T22:06:52Z

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US: Massachusetts: Open Education Initiative at UMass Amherst

2014-07-23T22:01:05Z

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{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=The Open Educationa Initative at UMass Amherst
|OER Policy URL=http://guides.library.umass.edu/content.php?pid=87648&sid=4778777
|Description="The high cost of commercial print textbooks is a major concern for both students and their parents. To address these concerns, the Provost’s Office and the University Libraries launched the Open Education Initiative in the Spring of 2011. The Open Education Initiative is a faculty incentive program that encourages the use of existing low-cost or free information resources to support our students’ learning. Information Literacy will also be emphasized, creating opportunities for students to develop and practice the skills of critical thinking, reasoning, communication, and integration of knowledge and perspectives.

Now in its third phase, the Open Education Initiative has generated a total savings of over $1,000,000 for students in classes that utilize open educational resources and library material."
|Author=Unknown,
|OER Policy Date=2011/03/01
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=Institution - Tertiary
|Country=United States of America,
|OER Policy Institution=UMass Amherst
|Tag=open textbooks
|License short name=copyright
}}
Additional links:<br>
*[http://www.library.umass.edu/about-the-libraries/news/press-releases-2014/oei-grants/ Grant press release]
*[http://publications.arl.org/rli280/2 ARL Report: Open Educational Resources as Learning Materials: Prospects and Strategies for University Libraries]

US: Maryland: MOST Maryland Open Source Textbook Initiative

2014-07-23T21:48:40Z

Billymeinke:

{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=MOST Maryland Open Source Textbook Inititative
|OER Policy URL=http://www.sparc.arl.org/sites/default/files/MOST_One_pager.pdf
|Description=The University System of Maryland's MOST (Maryland Open Source Textbook) Initiative is a pilot program to expand the use of open textbooks, launched in 2013.
|Author=Unknown,
|OER Policy Date=2013/10/01
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=Institution - Tertiary
|Country=United States of America,
|OER Policy Institution=University System of Maryland
|License short name=copyright
}}
Additional links:<br>
[http://www.sparc.arl.org/sites/default/files/MOST_One_pager.pdf SPARC MOST One pager]

US: Maryland: MOST Maryland Open Source Textbook Initiative

2014-07-23T21:47:45Z

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{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=MOST (Maryland Open Source Textbook Inititative
|OER Policy URL=http://www.sparc.arl.org/sites/default/files/MOST_One_pager.pdf
|Description=The University System of Maryland's MOST (Maryland Open Source Textbook) Initiative is a pilot program to expand the use of open textbooks, launched in 2013.
|Author=Unknown,
|OER Policy Date=2013/10/01
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=Institution - Tertiary
|Country=United States of America,
|OER Policy Institution=University System of Maryland
|License short name=copyright
}}
Additional links:<br>
[http://www.sparc.arl.org/sites/default/files/MOST_One_pager.pdf SPARC MOST One pager]

US: Kansas: Open Alternative Textbook Initiative

2014-07-23T21:35:16Z

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{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=The Open Alternative Textbook Initiative
|OER Policy URL=https://www.lib.k-state.edu/open-textbook
|Description="The high cost of commercial print textbooks is a major concern for both students and their parents. The goal of the initiative is to encourage faculty experimentation and innovation in finding new, better, and less costly ways to deliver learning materials to students. Through the initiative, faculty can receive a stipend up to $5,000 to develop or adopt an alternate to a traditional textbook."
|Author=Dr. Andy Bennett, Dr. Brian Lindshield, Beth Turtle
|OER Policy Date=2013/01/01
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=Institution - Tertiary
|Country=United States of America,
|OER Policy Institution=Kansas State University
|Tag=open textbooks
|License short name=copyright
}}
Multi-year microgrant program to develop or adopt an open textbook.

US: Illinois: Open Source Textbook Initiative

2014-07-23T21:15:27Z

Billymeinke:

{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Open Source Textbook Initiative
|OER Policy URL=http://www.illinoiseducator.uillinois.edu/opentxt/default.htm
|Description="The University of Illinois is the recipient of a Congressionally-directed grant, in the amount of $150,000, to 'design, create, and implement open-source educational materials for use in introductory college courses.' The effort will build on the University's quality faculty and rich history in the utilization of technology, allowing it to develop expertise and capacity in the crafting of open-source textbooks. This project was motivated, in part, as a response to the widely-recognized problem that the costs of textbooks and associated learning materials have challenged college affordability for many students and their parents. It is important that the University of Illinois provide leadership in this emerging form of publishing to the benefit of our current students while ensuring greater access to a broader spectrum of Illinois' population."
|Author=Charles V. Evans
|OER Policy Date=2014/07/01
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=System
|Country=United States of America,
|OER Policy Institution=University of Illinois
|Tag=open textbooks
|License short name=copyright
}}
The grant produced an open textbook on environmental sustainability:<br>
[http://www.earth.illinois.edu/sustain/sustainability_text.html Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation]
(alternate link: [http://cnx.org/contents/1741effd-9cda-4b2b-a91e-003e6f587263@43.4 here])

US: Illinois: Open Source Textbook Initiative

2014-07-23T21:12:50Z

Billymeinke:

US: Illinois: Open Source Textbook Initiative

2014-07-23T21:11:36Z

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US: Arizona: Maricopa Millions project

2014-07-23T17:25:57Z

Billymeinke:

{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Maricopa Millions project
|OER Policy URL=www.maricopa.edu/oer
|Description="Save Maricopa Community College Students $5 Million over 5 Years<br>
Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that are copyright-free or have been released under a copyright license that permits others to reuse, revise, remix and redistribute them. Examples of '''OER''' include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and many more resources contained in digital media collections from around the world."
|Author=Maricopa Community Colleges
|OER Policy Date=2013/11/01
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=Institution - Tertiary
|Country=USA,
|OER Policy Institution=Maricopa Community Colleges
|Tag=open textbooks
|License short name=copyright
}}
Additional links:<br>
*[https://maricopa.instructure.com/courses/811971 Maricopa Millions Instructure website]

US: Arizona: Maricopa Millions project

2014-07-23T17:25:27Z

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{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Maricopa Millions project
|OER Policy URL=www.maricopa.edu/oer
|Description="Save Maricopa Community College Students $5 Million over 5 Years<br>
<br>
Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that are copyright-free or have been released under a copyright license that permits others to reuse, revise, remix and redistribute them. Examples of '''OER''' include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and many more resources contained in digital media collections from around the world."
|Author=Maricopa Community Colleges
|OER Policy Date=2013/11/01
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=Institution - Tertiary
|Country=USA,
|OER Policy Institution=Maricopa Community Colleges
|Tag=open textbooks
|License short name=copyright
}}
Additional links:<br>
*[https://maricopa.instructure.com/courses/811971 Maricopa Millions Instructure website]

Canada: BC: Campus Open Textbook Project

2014-07-23T17:13:29Z

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{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=BC Campus Open Textbook Project
|OER Policy URL=http://bccampus.ca/open-textbook-project/
|Description=British Columbia's provincial government provided funding for the Open Textbook Project based at BCCampus to provide access to forty (40) open textbooks.
|Author=BCCampus
|OER Policy Date=2012/10/01
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=Institution - Tertiary
|Country=Canada,
|OER Policy Institution=BCCampus
|Tag=open textbooks
|License short name=copyright
}}

US: Federal: S.2518 - College Access Act of 2014

2014-07-22T23:45:26Z

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{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=S.2518 - College Access Act of 2014
|OER Policy URL=https://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/2518/text
|Description="To establish a grant program to incentivize States to implement comprehensive reforms and innovative strategies to significantly improve postsecondary outcomes for low-income and first generation college students, including increasing postsecondary enrollment and graduation rates, to reduce the need of postsecondary students for remedial education, to increase alignment of elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education, and to promote innovation in postsecondary education, and for other purposes."<br>
<br>
"(12) Open educational resource.--The term ``''open educational resource'''' means an educational resource that is licensed under an open license and freely available online to the public."<br>
<br>
"(13) Open license.--The term ``open license'' means a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, and irrevocable copyright license that grants the public permission to access, reproduce, publicly perform, publicly display, adapt, distribute, and otherwise use the work governed by such license and adaptations of such work for any purpose, conditioned only upon the requirement that an author of such work receives appropriate attribution."<br>
<br>
(A) Removing barriers to innovation in postsecondary education that shall include--<br>
(i) developing innovative education delivery models, such as using technology to enhance online and classroom learning aimed to increase participation and retention of students, particularly first generation college students and low-income students;<br>
(ii) promoting the use of technology to increase personalized learning, advising, and support services for students; and<br>
(iii) creating programs to create and expand the use of open educational resources."
|Author=Sen. Alan Franklin (D-MN)
|OER Policy Date=2014/06/24
|OER Policy Status=Proposed
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=National
|Country=United States of America,
|License short name=copyright
}}
Additional links:<br>
*[http://www.opencongress.org/bill/s2518-113 Sunlight Foundation OpenCongress listing]

South Africa: Open Educational Resource (OER) Strategy

2014-07-22T22:43:01Z

Billymeinke:

{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Open Educational Resource (OER) Strategy
|OER Policy URL=http://www.unisa.ac.za/contents/unisaopen/docs/OER%20Strategy%20(final)%20March%202014.pdf
|Description="The University of South Africa (Unisa) is the world's first single mode distance teaching university. As a mega university and Africa's largest comprehensive university, Unisa is leading again. It's official! Unisa approves an OER strategy."

"As the African University in service of humanity, we have a responsibility to share the gift of knowledge. '''OER''' provides the vehicle for our institution to lead by example in widening access to educational opportunity*.” Narend Baijnath, Pro Vice-Chancellor at Unisa.
|Author=University of South Africa (UNISA)
|OER Policy Date=2014/05/15
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=Institution - Tertiary
|Country=South Africa,
|OER Policy Institution=University of South Africa (UNISA)
|License short name=copyright
}}
Additional links:<br>
*[http://oeru.org/news/oeru-partner-unisa-approves-oer-strategy "OERu partner Unisa approves OER strategy" - OERu blog]

South Africa: Open Educational Resource (OER) Strategy

2014-07-22T22:41:39Z

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{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Open Educational Resource (OER) Strategy
|OER Policy URL=http://www.unisa.ac.za/contents/unisaopen/docs/OER%20Strategy%20(final)%20March%202014.pdf
|Description="The University of South Africa (Unisa) is the world's first single mode distance teaching university. As a mega university and Africa's largest comprehensive university, Unisa is leading again. It's official! Unisa approves an OER strategy."

"As the African University in service of humanity, we have a responsibility to share the gift of knowledge. '''OER provides''' the vehicle for our institution to lead by example in widening access to educational opportunity*.” Narend Baijnath, Pro Vice-Chancellor at Unisa.
|Author=University of South Africa (UNISA)
|OER Policy Date=2014/05/15
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=Institution - Tertiary
|Country=South Africa,
|OER Policy Institution=University of South Africa (UNISA)
|License short name=copyright
}}
Additional links:<br>
*[http://oeru.org/news/oeru-partner-unisa-approves-oer-strategy "OERu partner Unisa approves OER strategy" - OERu blog]

US: Department of Education; First in the World Program Development Grants

2014-07-22T22:35:24Z

Billymeinke:

{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Applications for New Awards; First in the World Program-Development Grants
|OER Policy URL=https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/05/16/2014-11463/applications-for-new-awards-first-in-the-world-program-development-grants
|Description=The US Department of Education announced the First in the World grant competition, which will award a total of $75 million to a innovators who are interested in rethinking and redesigning higher education.

"To ensure that the Federal investment of these funds has as broad an impact as possible and to encourage innovation in the development of new learning materials, FITW grantees will be '''required to license to the public all intellectual property (except for computer software source code, discussed below) created with the support of grant funds, including both new content created with grant funds and modifications made to pre-existing, grantee-owned content using grant funds. That license must be worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and grant the public permission to access, reproduce, publicly perform, publicly display, adapt, distribute, and otherwise use the intellectual property referenced above (except for computer software source code, discussed below) for any purposes, conditioned only on the requirement that attribution be given to authors as designated.''' Further, the Department requires that all computer software source code developed or created with FITW funds will be released under an intellectual property license that allows others to freely use and build upon them."
|Author=U.S. Department of Education,
|OER Policy Date=2014/05/15
|OER Policy Status=Proposed, Current
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=National
|Country=USA,
|License short name=copyright
}}
The grant RFP specifies that all intellectual property resulting from grants be licensed openly (see above, in '''bold'''). <br>
<br>
Additional links:<br>
*[http://www.ed.gov/blog/2014/05/fueling-innovation-through-first-in-the-world/ U.S. Dept. of Education blog]

US: Department of Education; First in the World Program Development Grants

2014-07-22T22:34:30Z

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{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Applications for New Awards; First in the World Program-Development Grants
|OER Policy URL=https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/05/16/2014-11463/applications-for-new-awards-first-in-the-world-program-development-grants
|Description=The US Department of Education announced the First in the World grant competition, which will award a total of $75 million to a innovators who are interested in rethinking and redesigning higher education.

"To ensure that the Federal investment of these funds has as broad an impact as possible and to encourage innovation in the development of new learning materials, FITW grantees will be '''required to license to the public all intellectual property (except for computer software source code, discussed below) created with the support of grant funds, including both new content created with grant funds and modifications made to pre-existing, grantee-owned content using grant funds. That license must be worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and grant the public permission to access, reproduce, publicly perform, publicly display, adapt, distribute, and otherwise use the intellectual property referenced above (except for computer software source code, discussed below) for any purposes, conditioned only on the requirement that attribution be given to authors as designated.''' Further, the Department requires that all computer software source code developed or created with FITW funds will be released under an intellectual property license that allows others to freely use and build upon them."
|Author=U.S. Department of Education,
|OER Policy Date=2014/05/15
|OER Policy Status=Proposed, Current
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=National
|Country=USA,
|License short name=copyright
}}
The grant RFP specifies that all intellectual property resulting from grants be licensed openly (see above, in '''bold'''). </br>
</br>
Additional links:</br>
*[http://www.ed.gov/blog/2014/05/fueling-innovation-through-first-in-the-world/ U.S. Dept. of Education blog]

US: Department of Education - Supplemental Priorities and Definitions for Discretionary Grant Programs (2014)

2014-07-18T19:41:08Z

Billymeinke:

{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Supplemental Priorities and Definitions for Discretionary Grant Programs
|OER Policy URL=https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/06/24/2014-14671/secretarys-proposed-supplemental-priorities-and-definitions-for-discretionary-grant-programs
|Description="To support a comprehensive education agenda, the Secretary proposes 15 priorities and related definitions for use in discretionary grant programs. These proposed priorities and definitions are intended to replace the current supplemental priorities for discretionary grant programs that were published in 2010. These priorities reflect the lessons learned from implementing discretionary grant programs, as well as our current policy objectives, and emerging needs in education."

'''OER policy mentions of note:'''

(1) "Technology can accelerate or enhance the implementation of the other priorities proposed in this document by:
Accessing '''open educational resources''' (as defined in this notice) aligned with internationally benchmarked college- and career-ready standards;"

(2) "While the use of digital tools was part of the 2010 Supplemental Priorities, we are revising this priority to include more specific strategies to promote technology integration and enhance student and educator learning. This proposed priority would explicitly support projects that help students and educators take full advantage of access to high-speed Internet, digital tools and materials, and '''open educational resources''' (as defined in this notice)."

(3) "Proposed Priority 11--Leveraging Technology to Support Instructional Practice and Professional Development. Projects that are designed to leverage technology through one or more of the following:
(a) Using high-need Internet access and devices that increase students’ and educators’ access to high-quality digital tools, materials, and assessments, particularly '''open educational resources''' (as defined in this notice)."

(4) "Definition: '''Open educational resources (OER)''' means teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others."
|Author=U.S. Department of Education,
|OER Policy Date=2014/06/24
|OER Policy Status=Proposed
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=National
|Country=USA,
|License short name=copyright
}}
'''Additional links'''
* [https://scout.sunlightfoundation.com/item/regulation/2014-14671/education-department-secretarys-proposed-supplemental-priorities-and-definitions-for-discretionary-grant-programs Sunlight Foundation]
* [https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2014-14671.pdf Federal Register]

US: Department of Education - Supplemental Priorities and Definitions for Discretionary Grant Programs (2014)

2014-07-18T19:40:23Z

Billymeinke:

{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Supplemental Priorities and Definitions for Discretionary Grant Programs
|OER Policy URL=https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/06/24/2014-14671/secretarys-proposed-supplemental-priorities-and-definitions-for-discretionary-grant-programs
|Description="To support a comprehensive education agenda, the Secretary proposes 15 priorities and related definitions for use in discretionary grant programs. These proposed priorities and definitions are intended to replace the current supplemental priorities for discretionary grant programs that were published in 2010. These priorities reflect the lessons learned from implementing discretionary grant programs, as well as our current policy objectives, and emerging needs in education."

OER policy mentions of note:

(1) "Technology can accelerate or enhance the implementation of the other priorities proposed in this document by:
Accessing *open educational resources* (as defined in this notice) aligned with internationally benchmarked college- and career-ready standards;"

(2) "While the use of digital tools was part of the 2010 Supplemental Priorities, we are revising this priority to include more specific strategies to promote technology integration and enhance student and educator learning. This proposed priority would explicitly support projects that help students and educators take full advantage of access to high-speed Internet, digital tools and materials, and '''open educational resources''' (as defined in this notice)."

(3) "Proposed Priority 11--Leveraging Technology to Support Instructional Practice and Professional Development. Projects that are designed to leverage technology through one or more of the following:
(a) Using high-need Internet access and devices that increase students’ and educators’ access to high-quality digital tools, materials, and assessments, particularly '''open educational resources''' (as defined in this notice)."

(4) "Definition: '''Open educational resources (OER)''' means teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others."
|Author=U.S. Department of Education,
|OER Policy Date=2014/06/24
|OER Policy Status=Proposed
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=National
|Country=USA,
|License short name=copyright
}}
'''Additional links'''
* [https://scout.sunlightfoundation.com/item/regulation/2014-14671/education-department-secretarys-proposed-supplemental-priorities-and-definitions-for-discretionary-grant-programs Sunlight Foundation]
* [https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2014-14671.pdf Federal Register]

US: Department of Education - Supplemental Priorities and Definitions for Discretionary Grant Programs (2014)

2014-07-18T19:39:10Z

Billymeinke:

{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Supplemental Priorities and Definitions for Discretionary Grant Programs
|OER Policy URL=https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/06/24/2014-14671/secretarys-proposed-supplemental-priorities-and-definitions-for-discretionary-grant-programs
|Description="To support a comprehensive education agenda, the Secretary proposes 15 priorities and related definitions for use in discretionary grant programs. These proposed priorities and definitions are intended to replace the current supplemental priorities for discretionary grant programs that were published in 2010. These priorities reflect the lessons learned from implementing discretionary grant programs, as well as our current policy objectives, and emerging needs in education."

OER policy mentions of note:

(1) "Technology can accelerate or enhance the implementation of the other priorities proposed in this document by:
Accessing *open educational resources* (as defined in this notice) aligned with internationally benchmarked college- and career-ready standards;"

(2) "While the use of digital tools was part of the 2010 Supplemental Priorities, we are revising this priority to include more specific strategies to promote technology integration and enhance student and educator learning. This proposed priority would explicitly support projects that help students and educators take full advantage of access to high-speed Internet, digital tools and materials, and '''open educational resources''' (as defined in this notice)."

(3) "Proposed Priority 11--Leveraging Technology to Support Instructional Practice and Professional Development. Projects that are designed to leverage technology through one or more of the following:
(a) Using high-need Internet access and devices that increase students’ and educators’ access to high-quality digital tools, materials, and assessments, particularly '''open educational resources''' (as defined in this notice)."

(4) "Definition: '''Open educational resources (OER)''' means teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others."
|Author=U.S. Department of Education,
|OER Policy Date=2014/06/24
|OER Policy Status=Proposed
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=National
|Country=USA,
|License short name=copyright
}}
'''Additional links'''
*[https://scout.sunlightfoundation.com/item/regulation/2014-14671/education-department-secretarys-proposed-supplemental-priorities-and-definitions-for-discretionary-grant-programs Sunlight Foundation]
*[https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2014-14671.pdf Federal Register]

US: Department of Education - Supplemental Priorities and Definitions for Discretionary Grant Programs (2014)

2014-07-18T19:38:35Z

Billymeinke:

{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Supplemental Priorities and Definitions for Discretionary Grant Programs
|OER Policy URL=https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/06/24/2014-14671/secretarys-proposed-supplemental-priorities-and-definitions-for-discretionary-grant-programs
|Description="To support a comprehensive education agenda, the Secretary proposes 15 priorities and related definitions for use in discretionary grant programs. These proposed priorities and definitions are intended to replace the current supplemental priorities for discretionary grant programs that were published in 2010. These priorities reflect the lessons learned from implementing discretionary grant programs, as well as our current policy objectives, and emerging needs in education."

OER policy mentions of note:

(1) "Technology can accelerate or enhance the implementation of the other priorities proposed in this document by:
Accessing *open educational resources* (as defined in this notice) aligned with internationally benchmarked college- and career-ready standards;"

(2) "While the use of digital tools was part of the 2010 Supplemental Priorities, we are revising this priority to include more specific strategies to promote technology integration and enhance student and educator learning. This proposed priority would explicitly support projects that help students and educators take full advantage of access to high-speed Internet, digital tools and materials, and '''open educational resources''' (as defined in this notice)."

(3) "Proposed Priority 11--Leveraging Technology to Support Instructional Practice and Professional Development. Projects that are designed to leverage technology through one or more of the following:
(a) Using high-need Internet access and devices that increase students’ and educators’ access to high-quality digital tools, materials, and assessments, particularly '''open educational resources''' (as defined in this notice)."

(4) "Definition: '''Open educational resources (OER)''' means teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others."
|Author=U.S. Department of Education,
|OER Policy Date=2014/06/24
|OER Policy Status=Proposed
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=National
|Country=USA,
|License short name=copyright
}}
Additional links:
*[https://scout.sunlightfoundation.com/item/regulation/2014-14671/education-department-secretarys-proposed-supplemental-priorities-and-definitions-for-discretionary-grant-programs Sunlight Foundation]
*[https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2014-14671.pdf Federal Register]

US: Department of Education - Supplemental Priorities and Definitions for Discretionary Grant Programs (2014)

2014-07-18T19:36:36Z

Billymeinke:

{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Supplemental Priorities and Definitions for Discretionary Grant Programs
|OER Policy URL=https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/06/24/2014-14671/secretarys-proposed-supplemental-priorities-and-definitions-for-discretionary-grant-programs
|Description="To support a comprehensive education agenda, the Secretary proposes 15 priorities and related definitions for use in discretionary grant programs. These proposed priorities and definitions are intended to replace the current supplemental priorities for discretionary grant programs that were published in 2010. These priorities reflect the lessons learned from implementing discretionary grant programs, as well as our current policy objectives, and emerging needs in education."

OER-related aspects of note:

(1) "Technology can accelerate or enhance the implementation of the other priorities proposed in this document by:
Accessing *open educational resources* (as defined in this notice) aligned with internationally benchmarked college- and career-ready standards;

(2) While the use of digital tools was part of the 2010 Supplemental Priorities, we are revising this priority to include more specific strategies to promote technology integration and enhance student and educator learning. This proposed priority would explicitly support projects that help students and educators take full advantage of access to high-speed Internet, digital tools and materials, and *open educational resources* (as defined in this notice).

(3) Proposed Priority 11--Leveraging Technology to Support Instructional Practice and Professional Development. Projects that are designed to leverage technology through one or more of the following:
(a) Using high-need Internet access and devices that increase students’ and educators’ access to high-quality digital tools, materials, and assessments, particularly *open educational resources* (as defined in this notice).

(4) Definition: Open educational resources (OER) means teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others.
|Author=U.S. Department of Education,
|OER Policy Date=2014/06/24
|OER Policy Status=Proposed
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=National
|Country=USA,
|License short name=copyright
}}
Additional links:
* [https://scout.sunlightfoundation.com/item/regulation/2014-14671/education-department-secretarys-proposed-supplemental-priorities-and-definitions-for-discretionary-grant-programs Sunlight Foundation]
* [https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2014-14671.pdf Federal Register]

US: Department of Education - Supplemental Priorities and Definitions for Discretionary Grant Programs (2014)

2014-07-18T19:34:13Z

Billymeinke:

{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Supplemental Priorities and Definitions for Discretionary Grant Programs
|OER Policy URL=https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/06/24/2014-14671/secretarys-proposed-supplemental-priorities-and-definitions-for-discretionary-grant-programs
|Description="To support a comprehensive education agenda, the Secretary proposes 15 priorities and related definitions for use in discretionary grant programs. These proposed priorities and definitions are intended to replace the current supplemental priorities for discretionary grant programs that were published in 2010. These priorities reflect the lessons learned from implementing discretionary grant programs, as well as our current policy objectives, and emerging needs in education."

(1) Technology can accelerate or enhance the implementation of the other priorities proposed in this document by:
Accessing *open educational resources* (as defined in this notice) aligned with internationally benchmarked college- and career-ready standards;

(2) While the use of digital tools was part of the 2010 Supplemental Priorities, we are revising this priority to include more specific strategies to promote technology integration and enhance student and educator learning. This proposed priority would explicitly support projects that help students and educators take full advantage of access to high-speed Internet, digital tools and materials, and *open educational resources* (as defined in this notice).

(3) Proposed Priority 11--Leveraging Technology to Support Instructional Practice and Professional Development. Projects that are designed to leverage technology through one or more of the following:
(a) Using high-need Internet access and devices that increase students’ and educators’ access to high-quality digital tools, materials, and assessments, particularly *open educational resources* (as defined in this notice).

(4) Definition:
Open educational resources (OER) means teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others.
|Author=U.S. Department of Education,
|OER Policy Date=2014/06/24
|OER Policy Status=Proposed
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=National
|Country=USA,
|License short name=copyright
}}
Additional links:
* [https://scout.sunlightfoundation.com/item/regulation/2014-14671/education-department-secretarys-proposed-supplemental-priorities-and-definitions-for-discretionary-grant-programs]]
* [https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2014-14671.pdf]]

US: Department of Education - Supplemental Priorities and Definitions for Discretionary Grant Programs (2014)

2014-07-18T19:31:43Z

Billymeinke: Created page with "{{OER Policy |OER Policy Title=Supplemental Priorities and Definitions for Discretionary Grant Programs |OER Policy URL=https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/06/24/201..."

{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Supplemental Priorities and Definitions for Discretionary Grant Programs
|OER Policy URL=https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/06/24/2014-14671/secretarys-proposed-supplemental-priorities-and-definitions-for-discretionary-grant-programs
|Description="To support a comprehensive education agenda, the Secretary proposes 15 priorities and related definitions for use in discretionary grant programs. These proposed priorities and definitions are intended to replace the current supplemental priorities for discretionary grant programs that were published in 2010. These priorities reflect the lessons learned from implementing discretionary grant programs, as well as our current policy objectives, and emerging needs in education."

(1) Technology can accelerate or enhance the implementation of the other priorities proposed in this document by:
Accessing *open educational resources* (as defined in this notice) aligned with internationally benchmarked college- and career-ready standards;

(2) While the use of digital tools was part of the 2010 Supplemental Priorities, we are revising this priority to include more specific strategies to promote technology integration and enhance student and educator learning. This proposed priority would explicitly support projects that help students and educators take full advantage of access to high-speed Internet, digital tools and materials, and *open educational resources* (as defined in this notice).

(3) Proposed Priority 11--Leveraging Technology to Support Instructional Practice and Professional Development. Projects that are designed to leverage technology through one or more of the following:
(a) Using high-need Internet access and devices that increase students’ and educators’ access to high-quality digital tools, materials, and assessments, particularly *open educational resources* (as defined in this notice).

(4) Definition:
Open educational resources (OER) means teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others.
|Author=U.S. Department of Education,
|OER Policy Date=2014/06/24
|OER Policy Status=Proposed
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=National
|Country=USA,
|License short name=copyright
}}
Additional links:
- [https://scout.sunlightfoundation.com/item/regulation/2014-14671/education-department-secretarys-proposed-supplemental-priorities-and-definitions-for-discretionary-grant-programs]
- https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2014-14671.pdf

India: Open Licensing Policy Guidelines

2014-07-15T20:52:51Z

Billymeinke:

{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Open Licensing Policy Guidelines
|OER Policy URL=http://www.sakshat.ac.in/Document/OER_Policy.pdf
|Description=Guidelines established for all knowledge resources developed with the support of the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT). Designates a single portal/gateway for resources for permanent linking/access, and open licensing (CC BY-SA preferred) for all materials.
|Author=NMEICT
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=National
|Country=India,
|Tag=education
|License short name=copyright
}}
Commonwealth of Learning (COL) blog post: [http://www.col.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=177]

India: Open Licensing Policy Guidelines

2014-07-15T20:51:42Z

Billymeinke: Created page with "{{OER Policy |OER Policy Title=Open Licensing Policy Guidelines |OER Policy URL=http://www.sakshat.ac.in/Document/OER_Policy.pdf |Description=Guidelines established for all kn..."

{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=Open Licensing Policy Guidelines
|OER Policy URL=http://www.sakshat.ac.in/Document/OER_Policy.pdf
|Description=Guidelines established for all knowledge resources developed with the support of the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT). Designates a single portal/gateway for resources for permanent linking/access, and open licensing (CC BY-SA preferred) for all materials.
|Author=NMEICT
|OER Policy Status=Current
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=National
|Country=India,
|Tag=education
|License short name=copyright
}}
Commonwealth of Learning (COL) blog post: [http://www.col.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=177]