This issue of Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship (JCEL) will explore Copyright in Systems of Open Knowledge. This issue will begin rolling publication in Spring 2024.
Copyright and systems of open knowledge are deeply intertwined. From foundational issues in ownership and authors’ rights to nuanced questions about respecting traditional knowledge or compliance with the forthcoming OSTP Memo, open practices are grounded in copyright law. As librarians, researchers, and educators work to build more open, inclusive, and sustainable systems of scholarly communication they need to understand the law as it is and articulate a vision for what the law should be. This special issue will introduce the state of the art in this emerging area and chart a course for closer alignment of copyright and open practices in education and librarianship. Articles are invited in topics such as:
Strategies for compliance/support for White House OSTP’s Nelson Memo
Inclusion of third party materials under fair use in open scholarship and OER projects
Copyright ownership in public/citizen science projects
Implementing specific projects developed with resources on copyright in open knowledge materials such as the “Code of Best Practice in Fair Use for OER” and “Text and Data Mining and Fair Use in the United States”
Strategies for asserting copyright ownership and exceptions in modern library licensing negotiations such as transformative agreements or Read-and-Publish deals
Successful models for training researchers and educators to understand copyright issues in open knowledge practices
Lessons learned from programming around events such as NASA’s Year of Open Science program on specific campuses, consortia, etc.
Ownership and use of open research data sets and data visualizations
Incorporating systems that recognize traditional knowledge into open knowledge projects
Establishing shared norms and international frameworks for copyright across national borders for collaborative open knowledge projects
