Week 5-3: Authorship, Copyright and Open Access
I have been involving in some open source community for years and honestly from them I learn a lot about how to respect other work. I live in a country where software piracy is a common thing and people can use the pirated software without feeling guilty. Joining open source communities really open my mind because it is really hard and difficult to make good software. It needs a lot of efforts and work hours to make a good one. Their hard work need to be honored and respected. The action that can be made is to buy software license in order to support their work and not violate the copyright. In open source world where virtually anything can be get or accessed for free, the ways that we can do to respect copyright are slightly different. We can make donations or contribute to their project. If we have to make some modification to the software we can still respecting the copyright by attaching the original source code to the modified one. Now I do aware about authorship and copyright. In my personal and professional field, I’m trying not to violate copyright by carefully choosing content from the internet, Try to use software legally or search the open source version of them J.
About open access, I do care and aware about this. One of my jobs in my office is being network administrator and sometimes my institution suffered information breaching and staff performance degradation due to the misuse of web 2.0 technology. Usually I blocked some sites but later I realized this effort is inefficient because staff may found other techniques to access the forbidden sites or use their own internet access (using mobile phone, etc). Based on the experience, later we made another approach by informing the staff about the dangers of web 2.0 when being used incorrectly and how the web 2.0 can be used to support the work and increase productivity. Web 2.0 can be used for brainstorming and collaborative effort. I do believe that effort to make people aware more effective than just forbid the staff to access the web 2.0 sites
Just wondering, did helping the staff see how to use the web 2.0 sites to be more efficient help? Or did they still clog up the network playing around?
I think we are on the right track, We can reduce a network incident significantly because of the policy.
Under the open access philosophy, Redalyc looks forward to contribute to the scientific editorial work produced in and about Iberoamerica, making available for the students and researchers the content of more then 550 magazines from different knowledge areas.