The document discusses the challenges and support needed in open access (OA) publishing, particularly related to the use of third-party content and copyright issues. It emphasizes the importance of clear licensing, author engagement, and the shift away from traditional profit-focused publishing models to facilitate digital publication. Additionally, it calls for sector-wide collaboration with rights holders to adapt to the needs of modern publishing while ensuring authors are supported in navigating these complexities.

1. Publishing work that
includes 3rd party content
Kate Petherbridge
Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash

2. ✔ A fully Open Access library-led academic publisher
✔ Publishes research monographs, textbooks and journals
✔ Scope and strategy set by library-led Management Board
✔ Commissioning by an academic-led Editorial Board, based on peer review
✔ Publishing as a service
✔ Offer support for OA more widely, through local sessions and advice for
academics wanting to engage with OA, and initiatives such as the Jisc NUP
toolkit

3. Creative Commons Licences are built from several elements. They allow
the author to retain copyright of their work, and to choose the default
level of permission for how their work can be shared and used.
CC- BY- NC- ND- SA
Creative
Commons
Licence
The author must be
credited when
others share or
reuse their work
The work can
only be shared
and reused for
non-commercial
purposes
The work cannot
be altered,
transformed or
built on
The work must
be shared under
the same licence
as applied to the
original

4. Photo by Franck on Unsplash

5. 73 images used:
Author’s own - included in the OA licence of the book
Images licenced under OA licences by their creator
and used within the default permissions set - author
credit and their specified licence given
Images licenced specifically for use in this volume -
credit and rights statement given as requested, and
conditions of licence (payment, copy of book etc.) met
Mix of specific images and illustrative images

9. 96 images used:
Author’s own - included in the OA licence of the book
Images licenced under OA licences by their creator
and used within the default permissions set - author
credit and their specified licence given
Images licenced specifically for use in this volume -
credit and rights statement given as requested, and
conditions of licence (payment, copy of book etc.)
met
All specific images, many from institutional rights holders

10. Photo by Emily Morter on Unsplash

11. Academics need support in this
“But I found it on the web so I can use it”
“I used it in my thesis…”
“Why can’t I use it?- it’s my image!”
“I got permission to use it in a book years ago, so I
don’t need to ask again to use in a different book”.
“I’ve used it before without asking
formally - no one minded.”

12. Rights holders can make things harder
Some are amazingly engaged and understand OA as a valid publishing model. When
linked to a not-for-profit approach, especially, they often waive or cut licencing/reuse
fees. Increasingly, large collections of images are being made available licenced for
reuse.
There is inconsistency, however. Others show:
● Fear of/lack of engagement with digital publication (ebooks are not websites!)
● Outdated requirements that make the content unusable online even when
licenced specifically for this
● Inability to move on from a time bound or print run model that licences by number
of copies
● Lack of consistency: in their own reuse statements, in fees applied…

13. OA issues
Visibility: OA publications are by their very nature accessible to everyone. Higher risk if
content used without correct permissions.
Need to explain OA: Authors can need support in explaining OA publication to rights holders
- how their content will be protected by rights statements and attribution is the same as in
other publishing models.
Author engagement: OA presses ask authors to engage with this process, potentially in
ways they haven’t before. This protects the author by making sure everything is as needed.
By asking for this engagement with what should be standard practice, this reinforces the
idea that it is an OA requirement.
Change: This is new and therefore challenging. Move from profit-focus in publishing is not
necessarily going to drive a similar change with rights holders as some use licencing as an
income stream.

14. Photo by JESHOOTS.COM on Unsplash
How do we fix this?

15. ● Support for academics, from publishers and their institutions, as they navigate
this.
● Sector level engagement with rights holders to really try and explain why the old
models of licencing aren’t really suited for a digital publishing environment.
● More clarity on what open licences actually mean, how third party content is used
and protected in OA publications.
● Recognition that issues around licencing content for use in digital publications is
not an OA issue but faces all modern publishing. OA authors/publishers trying to
doing this right shouldn’t make it an OA publishing issue.