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Open Source is generally specific to computer code and standards and even includes an organization—similar in thought as the Creative Commons. Open Source Defined: Source: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/O/open_source.html 1) Generically, open source refers to a program in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design free of charge, i.e., open. Open source code is typically created as a collaborative effort in which programmers improve upon the code and share the changes within the community. Open source sprouted in the technological community as a response to proprietary software owned by corporations. A key example is Microsoft versus Linux. Microsoft is a proprietary software and Linux is an open source software. (2) A certification standard issued by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) that indicates that the source code of a computer program is made available free of charge to the general public. http://opensource.org/osd

Open Access Open Access which includes journals, research—especially that which is government funded, and other scholars who want to share their work through open-access journals available through databases such as the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) or resources like the Public Library of Science (PLOS). Criteria for this work insist on work possessing research-level quality and be peer-reviewed. Authors have traditionally never been paid, primarily working for recognition of their ideas. Print journals necessitated communicating their work and originated the notion of peer-review. However, Open Access in this case essentially takes the middle-man the publisher out of the process. Print journals are no longer necessary in the advent of the internet and as th

Open Educational Resources Another subset of this type if work can include the Broad heading of Open Education Resources—these include the specific use of these online tools in an educational setting—examples can include the use of online textbooks or other freely compiled information. Wikipedia could interestingly enough fall in this example as an online encyclopedia with rather broad editing and contribution rights but that also retains primary editing rights. –almost peer review. Open Content The OpenContent website once defined OpenContent as 'freely available for modification, use and redistribution under a license similar to those used by the Open Source / Free Software community'.[3] However, such a definition would exclude the Open Content License (OPL) because that license forbade charging 'a fee for the [OpenContent] itself', a right required by free and open source software licenses. The term since shifted in meaning, and the OpenContent website now describes openness as a 'continuous construct'.[3] The more copyright permissions are granted to the general public, the more open the content is. The threshold for open content is simply that the work 'is licensed in a manner that provides users with the right to make more kinds of uses than those normally permitted under the law - at no cost to the user.'[3] The 4Rs are put forward on the OpenContent website as a framework for assessing the extent to which content is open: 1.	Reuse - the right to reuse the content in its unaltered / verbatim form (e.g., make a backup copy of the content) 2.	Revise - the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language) 3.	Remix - the right to combine the original or revised content with other content to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup) 4.	Redistribute - the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend)[3] This broader definition distinguishes open content from open source software, since the latter must be available for commercial use and adaptation by the public. However, it is similar to several definitions for open educational resources, which include resources under noncommercial and verbatim licenses.[5][6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_content

Creative Commons Licensing has been an attempt at bridging some of the protections of copy right with the needs of the producers of material openly available on the World Wide Web. For example, if I make a video tutorial demonstrating art projects I did a Young Adult Library Assistant, I may want to consider getting a Creative Commons license to make sure my work receives some attribution—to get a better guarantee that my work though freely available on the web is given that same recognition scholars desire.