Open academia

Abstract
Open academia refers to scholarly work (research, education, and service) conducted in the spirit of free culture and following ethical principles characterised by valuing openness, freedom, and transparency. This requires use of open processes including open access, formats, licenses, and governance.

Two underlying principles of open academia are:
 * 1) Open by default (e.g., (fully) openly licensed - use CC-0 or CC-BY-A or CC-BY-SA; avoid CC-by-NC and all rights reserved)
 * 2) Everything should be maximally re-usable (e.g., use openly editable formats)

Values
Key values underlying the practice of open academia including freedom, transparency, accessibility and re-usability.

Processes
Open academia utilises these processes:

Activities
The processes enable the three main functions or activities of open academics and open academic institutions such as universities: research, teaching and service.

Examples

 * https://open.umich.edu