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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
- University Website: http://www.mit.edu/
- OER Project: MIT OpenCourseWare Initiative
- Academic Press: http://mitpress.mit.edu/
- Traditional publishing model
- Focus on science and engineering texts
- Publishing Statistics
- Approx. 200 new books a year
- 40 academic journals
- "sell a higher proportion of our products outside the United States than any other U.S. university press"
- Rice University
- University Website: http://www.rice.edu/
- OER Project: Connexions
- Academic Press: http://ricepress.rice.edu/
- Print on Demand publishing model
- Uses OER Connexions project to source material
- PoD through QOOP
- Copyright: Author's retain copyright but must use Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license
- Long Tail Press
- Initiative to publish out-of-print books using PoD, as described above
- Also seeks to publish books accepted by other publishers but, for some reasons, never printed
- Print on Demand publishing model
- Harvard Business School Press (HBSP)
- http://harvardbusiness.org/
- NOTES: Possible alternative for-profit EM model as it offers HBS Cases as a six-month limited access electronic download, hard copy, and 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.
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