Research Questions

What are the 5 top Universities in this field?

Correlate them with their main outputs (Data, Narratives, Tools)
Understand and identify cases where these universities are “experimenting” or “adopting” commons based approach. Are they adopting OA policies, for instance? Are they adopting Social Responsible License approaches?
Identify these cases and treat them as entities that will also be placed in our mapping device (the quadrants)
Identify what universities are the “Microsofts” of the field and what companies are the “IBMs” of the field (Use the questionnaire to guide your research when appropriate - Carol will select specific relevant questions)

Universities

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Host instition of OER project: MIT OpenCourseWare Initiative
- Academic Press: http://mitpress.mit.edu/
  MIT Press employs a traditional publishing model focusing on science and engineering texts. It publishes approximately 200 new books a year and 40 academic journals and sells "a higher proportion of our products outside the United States than any other U.S. university press".

Rice University
- Host institution for OER project: Connexions
- Academic Press: http://ricepress.rice.edu/
  Print-on-demand (PoD) publishing model (through QOOP, which uses OER Connexions project to source material. Author's retain copyright but must use Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
  - Long Tail Press
    Long Tail Press is an initiative to publish out-of-print books using PoD, seeking to publish books accepted by other publishers but, for some reasons, never printed.

Harvard Business School Press (HBSP)
NOTES: HBSP offers a potential alternative for-profit EM model selling HBS Cases in six-month limited access electronic downloads, hard copies, and the ability to purchase copyright permission to duplicate the materials. For instance: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=SMR265&referral=2342.