This instructional session will help you understand how research outputs like data, software, and code can be shared and licensed to maximize reuse and the contribution of knowledge. It explores: how copyright plays out for data, software, and code; other contracts and policies that affect what's "ours" and how we can use and share content; and license selection best practices. An embedded exercise enables the class to practice new skills. Licensed CC-BY-NC 4.0

1. Sharing &
Licensing
Research Outputs
Office of Scholarly
Communication Services
Rachael Samberg
Mar. 18, 2019

2. What do you need to
create new knowledge
as a data scientist?

3. Inputs & Outputs
Data & Publications
https://library.uwinnipeg.ca/images/publ
ication%20cycle%20v2.png

4. You’re an author.
You have decisions
to make.

5. The metrics
ecosystem
Author-
level
Journal-
level
Article-
level
Data, code,
& software
Alt-metrics
● Publications
● Citations
● Journals
● Citations
● Bookmarks
● Social media
● Views & downloads
● “Impact”
● Citations
● Reputation
● Citations
● Dataset downloads
● Github forks
● “Attention”
● All outputs

6. Article
Data

7. Controlling an organic synthesis robot
with machine learning to search for new reactivity

8. 8
[Y]ou grant each User of GitHub a nonexclusive, worldwide
license to use, display, and perform Your Content through
the GitHub Service and to reproduce Your Content solely on
GitHub ... You may grant further rights if you adopt a
license.
Github Terms of Service
https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/#d-user-generated-content

9. Creative
Commons
Attribution
License

10. If I’m using
content, can’t I
just cite the
source?
Attribution
License

11. 1 2
What rights
do you
have?
Any policy
considerations?
3
Which
license is
best
suited?
Licensing research outputs in
3 easy steps

12. Step 1:
What rights do
you have?

13. Our rights depend in part on copyright
Solution to Burgers’ Equation Multi-heterocyclic system
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.joc.7b02978https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AB
urgersfig.png

14. Ho attraversato tutta la città.
Poi ho salita un'erta,
popolosa in principio, in là
deserta,
chiusa da un muricciolo:
I traversed the whole city.
Then climbed a hill
crowded at first, in the end
deserted,
closed off by a little wall:
Trieste, Umberto Saba, 1910 Trieste, trans. A.S. Kline, 2012

15. What is copyright?
Exclusive rights to make
certain uses
of original expression
for limited period of time

16. Exclusive Rights
▪Reproduction
▪Derivative works
▪Distribution
▪Public performance
▪Public display
Hans Meltofte, et al. (2013)
Arctic Biodiversity Assessment.
Status and Trends in Arctic
Biodiversity

17. Limited period of time
Varies, but at
least author’s life
+ 70 years…

18. Prerequisites &
Limitations

19. Original Expression
Protects expressions,
not ideas or facts
Must be original,
authored, & fixed
Ghana Statistical Service, “Gross Domestic Product 2016,”
http://www.statsghana.gov.gh/gdp_new.html By Rachael G. Samberg

20. Public Domain
CDC reportMartin Droeshout [Public domain]

21. Tips for Data
Facts vs. compilations of facts
Quantitative vs. qualitative
Databases
● Expressive data
● Organizational structures
● Descriptive metadata

22. If the data *is* protected,
then permission needed
to reproduce, display, etc.,
unless exceptions apply

23. Fair Use
17 U.S.C.§ 107
“The fair use of a
copyrighted work…for
purposes such as
criticism, comment, news
reporting, teaching…,
scholarship, or research,
is not an infringement of
copyright.”

24. Rights over our data also
depend on
agreements we’ve signed &
institutional
roles / policies

25. Student vs.
faculty vs. staff
Funding
agreements

26. Some relevant agreements
relate to the source of the
data we’re using

27. Website terms of use Database licenses

28. Restrictions on Systematic Downloading of Articles
Bulk downloading of articles from the main PMC web site, in any way,
is prohibited because of copyright restrictions.
PMC has two auxiliary services that may be used for automated
retrieval and downloading of a special subset of articles from the
PMC archive. These two services, the PMC OAI service and the PMC FTP
service, are the only services that may be used for automated
downloading of articles in PMC.
Articles that are available through the PMC OAI and FTP services are
still protected by copyright but are distributed under a Creative
Commons or similar license that generally allows more liberal use
than a traditional copyrighted work. Please refer to the license
statement in each article for specific terms of use. The license
terms are not identical for all the articles.
PubMed Central, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/copyright/

29. Step 2:
Any policy
considerations?

30. Privacy

31. Indigenous
Knowledge
http://www.bananaip.com/wp-content
/uploads/2014/10/ayurveda1-2.jpg

32. Endangered
Species
Credit: Tim Laman
Wikimedia (CC BY 4.0)

33. Embargoes

34. Step 3:
Which license is
best suited?

35. CC0
(Waiver)
Public Domain
(Label)
CC-BY
(License)
Use Standard Licenses
Open Data Commons
Creative Commons

36. Choosing a license: Avoid ambiguity
or if you can
can cause confusion
If scholars follow citations
practices, you would not lose out on
citations with CC0

40. Think about
the impact
you want to
have

41. Exercise
http://ucblib.link/qU

42. Questions?
Office of Scholarly
Communication Services
schol-comm@berkeley.edu
lib.berkeley.edu/scholcomm
@UCB_scholcomm