The data below is largely taken from the following documents: The UNESCO/COL "Survey on Governments’ Open Educational Resources (OER) Policies" (June 2012), The OECD's "Open Educational Resources Analysis of Responses to the OECD Country Questionnaire," The Creative Commons Open Policy Registry, the OpenDOAR database and the EU Lifelong Learning Programme's POERUP program. Where necessary, information has been filled in from the policy documents themselves.
Austria | Azerbaijan | Belgium | France | Hungary | Lithuania | Netherlands | Poland | Spain | UK
Austria
Policy | Policy Date |
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Open Access Policy for FWF-funded projects requires open licensing for funded projects Website: http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/public_relations/oai/index.html |
current |
"Realising potentials, increasing dynamics, creating the future" Becoming an Innovation Leader Strategy for research, technology and innovation of the Austrian Federal Government p. 46 notes that the results of publicly financed or co-financed research projects must be accessible for the public in an appropriate manner. Website: http://www.bmvit.gv.at/en/innovation/policy/rti_strategy.html |
March, 2011 |
GeoGebra Partnerships funding partner for open mathematical resources for Austrian schools Website: http://www.geogebra.org/cms/en/partners |
2006-07 and 2009-10 |
University of Vienna: Phaidra Policy (Permanent Archiving and Indexing of Digital Resources and Assets) is an open access database with a number of university members. Website: http://phaidraservice.univie.ac.at/das-system-phaidra/phaidra-policy/ |
3/22/2012 |
epub.oeaw User Guide—Handbuch Version 1.5 Academy of Science Open Access Database Website: http://epub.oeaw.ac.at/?arp=0x00235499 |
5/20/2010 |
OPEN DOAR participation through University of Vienna Website: http://www.opendoar.org/about.html |
2/15/2011 |
Open Strategies at TU Graz university strategy, not policy Website: http://opencontent.tugraz.at |
Azerbaijan
Policy | Policy Date |
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LIC Open Access position Outlines support by the publically-funded Khazar University Library and Information Center for a variety of Open Access projects, including publiction of the CC-licensed Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Website: http://library.khazar.org/s58/LIC-Open-Access-position |
current |
Belgium
Policy | Policy Date |
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University of Gent Deponeringsmandaat Ghent University has an ID / OA mandate (immediate deposit / optional access) for publications with publication date 2010 or later: Only publications with attached electronic full text can be included in libraries. The policy encourages and provides guidelines for Open Access publication. The resulting depository is called Biblio at UGent. Website: https://biblio.ugent.be/pages/openaccessugent.html |
11/12/2009 |
France
Policy | Policy Date |
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ParisTech Charter of Open Courseware and Licensing Practices Commits each school to improving the creation and provision of courses and to free access to the available online catalogue of more than 2,500 teaching resources, 2,700 course in around 200 programs of teaching units; most documents are under a Creative Commons licence, they can be read, copied and printed for a personal usage, but must not be modified. Website: http://graduateschool.paristech.fr/index.php?id=8 |
3/21/2007 |
SCEREN—Qui sommes-nous? Un réseau d'établissements publics Authorization of the Centre national de documentation pédagogique (CNDP) by the Ministry of Education to provide professional educational resources for schools. Website: http://www2.cndp.fr/cndp_reseau/presentation/accueil.htm |
February, 2009 |
Hungary
Policy | Policy Date |
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Apertus Nonprofit Kft. – Szakmai koncepció Outlines plans for a government funded organization both for the creation of digital content and for the promotion of open and online learning Website: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Apertus_Nonprofit_Kft._–_Szakmai_koncepció |
current |
Lithuania
Policy | Policy Date |
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Lithuanian Strategy on ICT Implementation in General and Vocational Education topic of OER is part of the broader strategy |
2008–2012 |
Netherlands
Policy | Policy Date |
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Programmaplan Wikiwijs 2011 – 2013 Program plan for mainstreaming OER across the entire educational system via the Wikiwijs Platform. Document also contains links to preliminary policies. Website: http://openserviceblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/programmaplan-wikiwijs-2011-2013.pdf |
5/19/2011 |
Poland
Policy | Policy Date |
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Cyfrowa szkoła—Digital School The first major Polish governmental program to include free licensing rules, this governmental program calls for computerisation of Polish schools and raising ICT competences. Its segment on e-resources provides for creating open textbooks and redesigning Scholaris, the national platform for educational resources. Website: http://www.cyfrowaszkola.men.gov.pl/index.php/informacje-o-programie/dokumenty-i-akty-prawne-programu |
4/3/2012 |
Spain
Policy | Policy Date |
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Open Access Institutional Policy at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC) Requires scientific/research outputs to be made available in institutional OA repository and extends to educational materials as well Website: http://openaccess.uoc.edu/webapps/o2/bitstream/10609/4966/6/InstitucionalMandateUOC_eng.pdf |
10/6/2010 |
The University of Barcelona's Open Access Policy Requires scientific/research outputs to be made available in institutional OA repository and extends to educational materials as well Website: http://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/bitstream/2445/27711/1/2011_06_UB_OA_Policy.pdf |
7/7/2011 |
Publicación de una guía para la creación de recursos educativos abiertos Publicación de una guía para la creación de recursos educativos abiertos. Material publicado por CeDeC. Ofrece a profesores y profesionales pautas para la creación de sus propios recursos educativos abiertos. Aparecen recogidos los siguientes aspectos: normas de estilo, fuentes para encontrar recursos y formación sobre software libre y licencias Creative Commons Website: http://cedec.ite.educacion.es/index.php/es/guia-creacion-contenidos/1121-guia-para-la-creacion-de-materiales-educativos-interactivos |
10/10/2012 |
CeDeC El Centro Nacional de Desarrollo Curricular en Sistemas no Propietarios es un departamento del Ministerio de Educación de España dedicado a la producción de Recursos Educativos Abiertos. En la actualidad ya ha publicado materiales para enseñanza secundaria. Además, ha lanzado una guía para la creación de contenidos por parte del profesorado y varios materiales de educación en valores. CeDeC lleva a cabo también la promoción del uso de las licencias Creative Commons entre el profesorado Website: http://cedec.ite.educacion.es/ |
10/10/2012 |
Recursos educativos para enseñanza presencial Publicación de Recursos educativos abiertos de Lengua [1] y Matemáticas: materiales multimedia para enseñanza presencial. Desarrollados por CeDeC y editados en diversos formatos. Han sido elaborados con eXe Learning a partir del nuevo proyecto de desarrollo de eXe Learning.net. Todos estos materiales son ofrecidos a los centros y educadores de todo el mundo para su uso como material de apoyo en la docencia Website: http://cedec.ite.educacion.es/index.php/es/descargade-contenidos |
10/10/2012 |
United Kingdom
Policy | Policy Date |
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JISC Terms and conditions of funding: annex to JISC Grant and Contract JISC funding made available on condition that outputs from the project are made available, free at the point of use (or ‘at cost’ where appropriate) and under Open Access or Open Source principles where possible, to the UK HE, FE and Research communities in perpetuity in accordance with JISC’s Open Access Policy and/or JISC’s Open Source Software Policy wherever possible. Website: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/terms-and-conditions-grant-project.aspx |
12/16/2011 |
Operational policies for Leeds Metropolitan University institutional repository initial focus of the repository as an Open Access research archive. Website: http://repository.leedsmet.ac.uk/main/policies.php |
current as of 2012 |
Introduction to the UK Government Licensing Framework Provides a policy and legal overview of the arrangements for licensing the use and re-use of public sector information both in central government and the wider public sector. It sets out best practice and standardises licensing principles. It covers all public sector information, including education Website: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/government-licensing/the-framework.htm |
7/29/2011 |
Policies and Statements of the Open University Lays out copyright policy for OpenLearn and other OU website content Website: http://www.open.ac.uk/about/main/admin-and-governance/policies-and-statements |
current as of 2012 |
Finch Report extensions to current licensing arrangements in the higher education, health and other sectors; improvements to the infrastructure of repositories, and support for the moves by publishers to provide access to the great majority of journals in public libraries. Website: http://www.researchinfonet.org/publish/finch/ |
7/16/2012 |
OpenDOAR funding UK Government funding for this open repository database Website: http://www.opendoar.org/about.html |
2/15/2011 |