Documentation:OER Resources TRU/Open Policy and Practices

Open Policy and Practices

[Cable Green on The Obviousness of Open Policy]

[Message to Canada from Cable Green, Director of Global Learning at Creative Commons]

[Commonwealth of Learning Guide to OER]

[Commonwealth of Learning Survey of Government OER Policies]

[BC Campus Open Policy Overview]

[Wayne Mackintosh at WikiEducator]

[David Wiley on OER]

[Canada's Open Government Action Plan]

[UNESCO OER Paris Declaration 2012]

[Cape Town OER Declaration]

Open Access Policy Institutions and Initiatives

Very Brief Introduction to Open Access, By: Peter Suber (Harvard University) "Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions."

[Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI)] Includes two Canadian Universities: Athabasca and Concordia

MIT Faculty Open Access Policy FAQ (A good FAQ for Faculty wondering how Open Access Policy affects them as creators)

Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies 21 Canadian Institutions and Universities are currently registered