Open licensing for cultural heritage / Gill Hamilton and Fred Saunderson.

London : Facet Publishing, 2017.

xv, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

1. Introduction -- 2. The open movement : its history and development -- 3. Copyright and licensing : a background -- 4. Open licensing : the logical option for cultural heritage -- Introduction to case studies -- 5. Small steps, big impact -- how SMK became SMK Open -- 6. The British Library experience of open metadata licensing -- 7. Open policy and collaboration with Wikimedia at the National Library of Wales -- 8. Newcastle libraries -- the public library as a place to share culture -- 9. Developing open licensing at the National Library of Scotland -- 10. The Wellcome Library -- 11. Developing an open educational resources policy and open approaches to mitigate risk at University of Edinburgh -- 12. How to impact open licensing -- 13. Using and reusing openly licensed resources -- 14. Conclusion.

Includes bibliographical references and index.