In this context, OfiLibre has decided to create a catalog of free materials used in URJC courses. This way, we will have all this valuable teaching material, published openly at the Rey Juan Carlos University, collected in an organized manner.

With this initiative, the Office of Knowledge and Free Culture is calling on all teachers at our University who have created free materials and published them openly. If you want to participate, you can write to our email address. Please, in your message, follow these guidelines to facilitate our process:

  • The message will be sent from a Rey Juan Carlos University email address.

  • The message will be sent to: ofilibre@urjc.es

  • The subject of the message will be: Catalog of free materials

  • Each message sent will correspond to a material with a certain entity of its own. Please, group materials that make sense to group (e.g., notes from the same course, or the series of videos prepared for the same course).

  • The message will include this FORM (you must copy and paste it into the email you send), filled in with the corresponding information:

    1. Name:
    2. Surname:
    3. Center (School or Faculty):
    4. Material title:
    5. Degree(s) in which it was used:
    6. Link to the material (notes, slides, videos, etc.):
    7. License used:
    8. Brief summary of the material:
    9. Where you published the material:

Optional, we would also like to know how the process of generating this material was:

  1. Which platforms did you use to generate the free material (if you didn’t use any of the following, you can leave them blank. For example, if you didn’t use music in your material, leave the space blank) Videos: Images: Music: Slides: Information/Notes: Other platforms you consider of interest:

  2. What was the process of generating the free material and the difficulty you had in developing it in general.

  3. What doubts arose when making the free material or that you still have and would like to clarify.

Thank you very much for your time and participation. Encourage yourselves to collaborate!

Note: For the purposes of this catalog, we consider as “open publication” what was defined in the Berlin Declaration on October 22, 2003:

“The author(s) […] must guarantee the free, irrevocable, and worldwide right to access the work, and license to copy it, use it, distribute it, transmit it, and publicly display it, and to make and distribute derivative works […]’’ (https://openaccess.mpg.de/Berlin-Declaration)

There is more information on the topic in our presentations on open publication, which include transparency games and seminar videos on the topic, including what licenses are considered open publication, how to mark a material as free, types of open publication, etc.