Draft Questionnaire
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Draft Questionnaire on Open Universities
General facts
University Name
Public/Private?
Country
Person responsible for the answers (and contact information)
Policies
Is the university party to declarations or commitments to openness and to provide access to knowledge (Wheeler Declaration, Berlin and Budapest Declaration, etc.)?
Is there a copyright policy within the university? Available?
Is there a patent policy within the university? Available?
Is there a publishing license policy within the university? Available?
Is there a database policy within the university? Available?
Is there an open standards policy within the university? Available?
Is there a software procurement and usage policy within the university? Available?
Is there a policy on distribution and licensing of software produced within the university
Is there any policy on data within the university? Available?
What policy is there to protect the freedom of publication of researchers in cases of private contracts and funding?
Is there a mandate of open access for publicly-funded scientific publications in your country or region?
Openness in dissemination
Websites
Are the contents of the institutional website licensed under a free license? Which one?
Are the contents of the departments websites licensed under a free license? Which one?
Repository
Is there an institutional repository?
Which type of materials are included in the repository?
Are all the materials open to the public? If not, % public vs total (state for which year)
Are the materials offered through the repository available under free licenses when possible?
Are materials available in editing formats? % contents in editable formats (state for which year)
University Press
Is there a University Press (UP)?
Does the UP uses free licenses for textbooks? % books with licenses vs all books (state for which year)
Does the UP offer free tools for self publishing?
Enforcement of the Public Domain
Is the university engaged in any digitalization process of its archive?
Are the digitized materials freely available to all public?
Are digitized materials marked as public domain?
Openness in research
Papers
Is there a research repository?
Is there a requirement or mandate for self-archiving?
Is there any incentive for self-archiving?
% of articles available vs articles published (state for which year)
Thesis and other documents
Is there a thesis public repository and where?
Is there a requirement for making thesis publicly available on-line and where?
Is there any incentive for publishing thesis?
% of thesis that are publicly available on-line? (state for which year)
Other research documents published in the repository:% published under free licenses.
Journals
Are there research journals published by the University?
Are those journals available full text for all public? % full text journals vs all journals published (state for which year)
Are those journals using free licenses? % free licenses use vs all journals published (state for which year)
Data
Are research data available?
Is there any restriction for using those data?
Is there any fund or economic aid for publishing in OA journals requiring a fee?
Copyright and patent licensing
Is there any addenda used for copyright transfer agreements?
Does the University IP policy discourage software patents?
Does the University IP policy allow exclusive licenses when patenting?
What type of incentives is there to either patent or not patent in various fields?
Does the University IP policy provide for the grant of royalty-free patent licenses for free software?
Does the University IP policy provide for the grant of royalty-free patent licenses for essential medicines?
Is there any statement in the patent regulation of the university making reference to the the grant of royalty-free patent license for the public good, social welfare or similar goals?
Is there any reference to the ready licensing of patents when they block subsequent innovations?
Openness in course materials
Is your university engaged in opencourseware like initiatives?
Are course materials available to all public? % public courses (state for which year)
Are course materials available under free licenses? % licensed course materials (state for which year)
Is there a default license for course materials?
Is the license choice open to any author?
Is there a course materials repository?
Is there any promotion or incentive to offer open course materials?
Openness in software
Are platforms or programs used within the university from free/libre/open source software (FLOSS)?
Is there any incentive or promotion for using FLOSS?
Is there any software repository for developers or students as sourceforge?
Are FLOSS programs included by default in computers?
Are personal computers available with linux by default?
Are there courses teaching programming using FLOSS environments?
Are there FLOSS groups within the university?
If so, do they receive any institutional support?
Openness in standards
Does the university have requirements of using open standards in its operations and information systems
Does the university use open document standards?
- At administrative level
- In communication with students
- In communication with faculty
- In communication between faculty and students
- In external relations
Openness in the network
Are there applications which are freely usable on the Internet, but forbidden or technically blocked within University network?
Which applications are forbidden or technically blocked?
Are there any free Internet applications which are controlled/restrained on the University network?
Are student traffic data (or data of other non-employees) logged or otherwise stored/recorded? If yes, what kind of log files are kept? How long are these logs kept?
