Rachael Lowe has a new post discussing OER as it relates to health and hygiene. Lowe has started Physiopedia, an OER repository for health workers. From the post:
People in the developing world are dying for lack of knowledge. Today, 1.3 billion people lack access to basic health care services and many more are at risk of receiving poor quality care. A major contributing factor is lack of access to relevant, reliable healthcare information.
“Lowe has started Physiopedia, an OER repository for health workers.”
I was going to write how Physiopedia is not an OER because it was not licensed under an Open License, but after a few more minutes of digging I found out it is licensed under the GFDL.
I really wish Lowe and Physiopedia would make that license a bit more prominent; right now it is buried in the Terms of Service. It isn’t stated anywhere else. thus unless someone read _half way down_ the Terms of Service they wouldn’t know this is an OER as opposed to a simple Open Access resource.
Greg makes a fair point. We will add a Creative Commons license and make the fact that this is an open resource more obvious by including it on every page. Thanks for pointing this out!