IP Profile of Universities working in EM

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

1. 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"
2. 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

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