What can I do? Academics perceptions on issues concerning licences
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Projektarbete, avancerad nivå
Project Report, advanced level
Project Report, advanced level
Program
Publicerad
2024
Författare
Michael Ayas, Hamdy
Erlenhov, Linda
Thörn, Hannes
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In this study we aim to understand what people in academia (academics, researchers and students)
find challenging regarding the topic of licences. Specifically, we collect discussions from Q&A fora and
manually analyse them to unravel what our stakeholders feel compelled to ask about and discuss online.
We collect 407 questions and after filtering we analyze 212 of them using thematic analysis techniques.
We identify 8 clusters of challenges, that we further determine based on 6 types of questions they can be
concerned with (i.e., What, How, Why, Should, Can, and Is there questions). We find that most questions
ask what license to pick for different scenarios and the tools available to help with this selection do not
take in to consideration that there might already be licensed material in use. Our findings can be used as
input to educational material regarding licences or future ”licence helper tools” development, in order to
cover what people in academia typically find challenging and ask about in expert Q&A fora.