As well as delivering events around the country, we are also busy seeking a new core funder, as LINZ has decided to cease funding CCANZ as of the beginning of next year. If you have any ideas, we would love to hear from you.
Around 50 GNS Science staff from Avalon, Wairakei and Dunedin attended CCANZ-led sessions on applying NZGOAL and Creative Commons to their copyright works, including their nationally significant and publicly funded datasets. They raised meaty issues such as liability, costs of changing publishing processes, arguments for and against publishing in open journals rather than with traditional publishers, and the costs of submitting papers.
A song a day
Kiwi musician Jon Lemmon is writing a song a day — and releasing them all under a Creative Commons licence.
A very happy 21st birthday to the Christchurch City Libraries website and online catalogue! It was the first public library internet presence in Australasia, way back in 1995.
CC around the world
All European scientific articles must be made freely accessible by 2020 (although not British ones now I guess?!). A South African scholar has been studying students’ attitudes to copyright in their educational resources. The Authors Alliance has published guidance in crafting a rights reversion letter.
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