External resources
Copyright in education and Open Access
Open Access
- Budapest Open Access Initiative (Declaration released on 14.02.2002)
- Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (published on 22.10.2003; list of signatories)
Publishing and second publication right
Swiss websites / ressources
- Handout on self-archiving rights, in German, made by Open Science Services, Universität Zürich Universitätsbibliothek
- Scientific article providing arguments in favor of the law (art. 382 para 3 Swiss Code of Obligations, which sets an embargo period of three months for scientific articles) prevailing over a publishing contract: Grégoire Geissbühler, L’Open Access dans le Code des obligations, in : Jusletter 17 mai 2021
International websites / ressources
- A comparison between the second publication right in several EU countries and the Italian attempt to introduce it: webinar recording made by reCreating Europe, project funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
- A checklist-tool to discover what you need to know when assessing whether or not a publisher is suitable for your research
Creative Commons licenses
Video resources
Creative Commons licences explained
Creative Commons - what, how, why
How to use CC to find free images, audio and video
Swiss Websites / Resources
- Creative Commons Switzerland (www.creativecommons.ch)
International Websites
- Creative Commons International Website (creativecommons.org)
- CC License chooser
- CC Search - Find content you can share, use and remix
- Find images licensed under CC (Creative Commons pictures on Flickr)
- Find music licensed under CC
- Creative commons license spectrum between public domain (top) and all rights reserved (bottom): see image
Free and Open Source Software Licenses
Introduction Videos
What is Open Source Software (by Brian Daigle)
Definitions of Free & Open Source Software
- The free software definition - what is free software
- The open source software definition - what is open source software
- What's the difference between open source software and free software? (opensource.com)
- Why “Free Software” is better than “Open Source” (on gnu.org - by Free Software Foundation)
Free and Open Source Software Licenses
- Choose an open source license
- List of all free software licenses
- List of all open source software licenses
Open Research Data
Visual Data as Research Data
- Website-tool developed to navigate a user-friendly model for open data practices in visual social research: https://codevis.org/
- Jesse Fox, Katy E Pearce, Adrienne L Massanari, Julius Matthew Riles, Łukasz Szulc, Yerina S Ranjit, Filippo Trevisan, Cheryll Ruth R Soriano, Jessica Vitak, Payal Arora, Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn, Meryl Alper, Andrew Gambino, Carmen Gonzalez, Teresa Lynch, Lillie D Williamson, Amy L. Gonzales, Open Science, Closed Doors? Countering Marginalization through an Agenda for Ethical, Inclusive Research in Communication, Journal of Communication, Volume 71, Issue 5, October 2021, Pages 764-784, https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqab029
- Lobinger, K., Lucchesi, F., & Tarnutzer, S. (2024). Visualized relationships (ViRe) - Image type overview and short descriptions. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10557227
- Lobinger, K., Lucchesi, F., & Tarnutzer, S. (n.d.). Pair and individual interviews with couples and friends in Switzerland (ViRe) (Version 1.0) [Dataset]. FORS data service. https://doi.org/10.48573/FRMK-2S13
- Tarnutzer, S., Lobinger, K., & Lucchesi, F. (2024). Image types revisited. A texto-material approach for creating image types. Studies in Communication Sciences, 24(1), 103–121. https://doi.org/10.24434/j.scoms.2024.01.3894
Copyright and Data protection
UNESCO’s first global guidance on GenAI in education, published on the 7th of September 2023.
Other resources related to Copyright
Legislation
- Federal Act on Copyright and Related Rights (entry in force: 01.04.2020)
- Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (as amended on September 28, 1979)
- European Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (entry in force: 07.06.2019)
Copyright in general
Swiss websites / resources:
- 9 Videos on YouTube, in German, made by Prof. Dr. Alfred Früh, Universität Basel, Juristische Fakultät, Zentrum für Life Sciences-Recht
International websites / resources:
- The History and Philosophy of Copyright, made by John P. Hess - FilmmakerIQ
Plagiarism
Swiss Websites / Resources:
- Quotation Rules / Zitierleitfaden (by ETH Zürich) - in German
- Information sheet "Plagiarism - Prävention and Measures" / Merkblatt "Plagiate - Prävention und Massnahmen" (by University Luzern) - in German
International websites / resources:
- All you need to know about plagiarism (www.plagiarism.org)
- European Network for Academic Integrity (www.academicintegrity.eu)
- Plagiarism prevention project of the University of Konstanz
- Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice - Memorandum by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - in German/English
- Video on YouTube Acceptable/Unacceptable, produced by the Office of Student Judicial Affairs, University of Alberta, and Townend Films, in English
- Video on YouTube, Times I Plagiarized, TheOdd1sOut, in English
- Brigitte Simonnot, « Le plagiat universitaire, seulement une question d’éthique ? », Questions de communication [En ligne], 26 | 2014, mis en ligne le 31 décembre 2014, consulté le 26 septembre 2023. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/questionsdecommunication/9304 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/questionsdecommunication.9304
Publishing on Social Media
Swiss websites / resources:
- Posten, Liken, Sharen - Urheberrecht in sozialen Netzwerken (by Andreas Heinemann / Beat Althaus in www.jusletter.ch), in German
- Social Media und Recht: ein zwiespältiges Verhältnis (by Evelyn Ruckstuhl - report from a class of the CAS Social Media Management of the HWZ), in German
International websites / resources:
- The art of posting: social media, copyright and artist attribution (Internet Law Bulletin, article by Clara Edwards), in English
- Photo Sharing on Social Media & Copyright Infringement: What You Need to Know (by Amanda G. Ciccatelli - article on IPWatchdog), in English
Data Protection
Legislation
- Federal Act on Data Protection (entry in force: 01.09.2023)
- European General Data Protection Regulation - GDPR (entry in force: 28.05.2018)
- Digital Services Act (entry in force: 16.11.2022)
Useful resources