Works in Progress Webinar: Radical Access — Leveraging Creative Commons Licenses to Open up Archives
Channel: OCLC Research
Date: 2019-12-11

Many archivists and users of archives experience intellectual property restrictions as a serious impediment for promoting, disseminating, using, and re-using archival materials. This webinar will discuss the important opportunity that creators of archival materials have to assert their desire for more open access via Creative Commons licensing.

Speakers will explain the suite of options available using Creative Commons licensing to allow creators to give their intellectual property to archives and special collections libraries. Webinar participants will learn strategies for explaining open licenses to donors (and sellers), negotiating for them, articulating them in archival descriptions, and helping researchers make sense of them.

This webinar will be of interest to anyone working to build, administer, steward, and provide access to archives and special collections or other collections governed by a deed of gift.