Hello! Thank you to everyone who attended this workshop and for those who were not able to attend we will have the video recording of the session on the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities (CTSDH) YouTube page soon. Or perhaps you are interested in learning more about digital humanities tools. CTSDH will be hosting two more workshops lead by some of our 2nd year MA students. Join us for one of our upcoming workshops by signing up here!All workshops are on Wednesdays, 2 pm CST. No prior experience is required.
- March 3, 2021: Building Digital Exhibits with Omeka Classic
- March 24, 2021: XML Transformations with JavaScript and XSLT
This blog post is intended to be a digital handout of sorts with resources I used to develop the presentation and other resources to help you dive deeper into open access and creative commons licenses.
Open Access Resources
- Open Access by Peter Suber. MIT Press, 2012.
- LUC Library Research Guide: Open Access
- For LUC community members, I recommend contacting your subject specialist librarian for more information about OA publishing in your discipline
- “Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact?” by Kristin Antelman. College & Research Libraries, volume 65, number 5, 2004.
- “The state of OA: a large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles.” Piwowar et al., 2018. PeerJ.
- “Creative Commons and Open Access initiatives: how to stay sane and influence people” by Carrie Bishop. Art Libraries Journal, volume 40, issue 4, 2015.
Creative Commons Resources
- Creative Commons Website
- Creative Commons Wiki: License Versions
- Creative Commons FAQ: What are the international (“unported”) Creative Commons licenses, and why does CC offer “ported” licenses?
- “Creative Commons and Digital Humanities” presentation by Laura F. McKinnon at 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference at University of North Texas
- “Is Creative Commons a Panacea for Managing Digital Humanities Intellectual Property Rights?” by Yi Ding. Information Technology and Libraries, volume 38, issue 3, 2019.
- Hagedorn et al. (2011) “Creative Commons licenses and the non-commercial condition: Implications for the re-use of biodiversity information.” ZooKeys 150: 127-149.
- “Creative Commons licences: are they right for you?” by John Casey. Art Libraries Journal , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , 2012 , pp. 32 – 37.
- “Pitfalls of open licensing: an analysis of creative commons licensing” by Zachary Katz. Idea, 2006, volume 46, issue 3.
Where to find CC and OA items?
Text
- Project Gutenberg†
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Directory of Open Access Books
- Loyola eCommons
- Internet Archive‡
Audio and Video
Images
* non creative commons license, permits modified reuse †content is in the public domain ‡ multimodal repository, not all items under creative commons/open licenses
Anna Kroon is a second year in the Digital Humanities MA program. She is the Digital Systems Graduate Assistant and a Graduate Reference Assistant at the Loyola University libraries. Her research interests include: text encoding, adaptation, book history, and archival access.
