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

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