EDUCAUSE Review Articles and Licensing

Deep into the digital age, academic libraries have relinquished much of their fundamental and sustaining role. For most people, including academicians, the library—in its most basic function as a source of information—has become overwhelmingly a virtual destination.

The author gives an overview of the creative commons and science commons licenses and publishing options.

The author discusses whether the open source movement should go the way of licensing open source software or content.

The author discusses how growing software licensing fees are driving the efforts of open source application development.

Institutions are in search of a new model to fund application software. Community source projects—based on open source philosophy and licensing—offer promise for developing sustainable economics and for advancing the frontiers of innovation.