Intellectual property concepts related to open science and repositories

Abstract

This workshop focuses on intellectual property, copyright and licenses related to Open Science. Concepts which librarians should take into consideration when managing a repository or giving advice to its users. Research and hospital network libraries became in recent years the agents for licensing the scientific resources of their institutions, providing their users with the proper knowledge about the terms of use the subscribed resources. Nowadays, they face a new scenario of Open Access which means differences in the negotiation with publishers but also in the terms of use of the products. Besides that, most of them are in charge of managing their institutional repository, a task which demands a deep knowledge of author rights and licenses. In this course, Open Science is tackled, but from the point of view of Intellectual Property, focusing on how to apply it to manage an open access repository.