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November 13, 2008
Exploring Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a nice complement to other open access resources such as Google Books and ITunes U. Although Creative Commons is relatively unknown to most faculty, students, and librarians, the University of Michigan has begun a series of workshops to educate librarians and faculty about the availability of these resources and to encourage them to contribute to the site by licensing their own work. Molly Kleinman, a copyright specialist at the University of Michigan, is spearheading this effort. You can read this article and view a podcast interview with her in the November 2008 issue of C&RL News online at http://www.acrl.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crlnews/2008/nov/November.cfm .
I also invite you to explore the resources available on the Creative Commons website at www.creativecommons.org . You will find film, recordings, photographs, educational content from Open University in the UK, training courses, personal blogs, and content from multiple countries in multiple languages--all with the "some rights reserved" copyright. Creative Commons can be a valuable resource and as it becomes more familiar to librarians, faculty, and students, hopefully more content will be added and discovered.
Peggy Dillard
Posted by colldev at November 13, 2008 03:01 PM