A Good Way to Disseminate Your University of Michigan Academic Products to the General Public Through Deep Blue and Creative Commons

Abstract

Deep Blue is a University of Michigan library system that permanantly stores electonic versions of faculty-generated content. Creative Commons is an addendum to copyright that gives people permission to disseminate and use your work. Together, these make a public publishing platform that's pretty easy to set up for academic posters, talk slides, audio recordings, published or unpublished manuscripts, data sets, what have you.