Licensing spans areas of library work such as promoting open access, helping people navigate publication rights, advocating for open infrastructure, and the technological elements of research and learning.
When used well, open licences can underpin a lot of possibilities for finding, accessing, creating, and preserving scholarly work.
I’ve noticed however, that often people aren’t very confident in their knowledge of how open licence rights work. I think our (librarians and others) work in the realm of information literacy provides a useful approach to that problem. We need to improve understanding of information rights and restrictions in order to help people enculturate their own their practices with open scholarship.
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