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Useful info and videos. I don't much experience of publishing in journals yet but do use creative commons. 

Very useful videos about the CC!

I became aware of the importance of publishing in OA only a few years ago because of the EC policy, and have published all my papers in OA since then. The bad part is that we have to allocate a substantial part of our year budget to pay for all the APCs.

As someone that have just jump outside of the university, I think that one of the biggest barriers of the Open Access is the lack of communication with students. Most of us have hear only the name of Open Access or Open Science, but there are not much iniciatives where students can get involved and adapt. So most of us enter in a group and try to learn everything by imitation.

I think that the best way to change the way to produce scientific product or the comunication of the result of the researchs is from bot to top, triyng to involve students from the beginning with a similar content to what this MOOC offers.

I found the videos and infographics very useful. I believe one of the main obstacles in my country for publishing in Open Access ara APCs, there are several journals in latin america that publish Open Access without charging APC however the pressure of publishing in high impact journals forces researchers to find a way of cover those charges. Most of them include the costs of APCs in their applications for grants however APCs may change over time.

Very nice explanations and videos. Thank you!

Extremely clear and informative video on CC. Thank you! Appreciate it and share most of the comments and ideas I have read in this forum. First time for me learning about CC and find OA journal publishing expensive and its objective not yet understood by the scientific community. Let's improve this with courses like this one. Thanks again!

For my experience, one of the main limitations of publishing open access is that some institutions lack the funding for that. In my research groups we have published open access some times, but others we don´t have funding available for that, so we need to publish in the traditional option. 

I'd like to share with the group a recent discussion I had with someone at a conference. They had published a paper with an open access journal under a standard open access licence agreement - and paid for the privilege of doing so. They were then contacted by another researcher who alerted them to a second publisher in a different country who were using their paper word-for-word in a book without their permission. There was no commercial bar in the creative comments agreement they had signed and since the publisher was acknowledging them as authors, there was nothing they could do to stop the publisher reselling their work with no benefit to themselves. Nor did they have the right to refuse permission for the publisher to use the work in this way.

To be clear, I don't think this is a problem with open access, but it has made me more alert to understanding the different types of licencing available.

Coming from the humanities, I feel like my field is lagging in terms of using preprints. We get too attached to our ideas and fear too much that others might steal them. That, on top of the lack of collaboration in general, is leaving us quite isolated in the research process. I hope to learn here from the Life Sciences about the best tools and arguments to convince my peers of the importance of collaborative research and OA publishing.

Emma, this first week has been really useful to me. I'm in charge of Responsible Research and Innovation in my institution and it's never easy to get fellow scientist to acknowledge the benefits of going OpenAccess.