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Interview with by Iolanda Pensa and Chiara Somajni, 12 November 2025, CC BY 4.0.


Monica Granados is Open Science director at Creative Commons in Canada


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Actions

  1. Surveying the Open Climate Data Landscape https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/08/surveying-the-open-climate-data-landscape/
  2. Recommended Best Practices for Better Sharing of Climate Data https://creativecommons.org/2024/01/29/recommended-best-practices-for-better-sharing-of-climate-data/
  3. Bibliography - papers cited in the IPCC report

Monica Granados open science director at cc in Canada

knowledge about science more accessible.

Project Open climate (2022-2024) with Creative Commons Open the knowledge about climate change Opening publications related to climate change - open access medium https://creativecommons.org/about/open-science/open-climate/ Opening already published publications. Initially we planned for 4 years. We continue to do work on open climate but with a focus on data (grant from a foundation): open climate date. Analysis of the licences used by climate data producers (report); recommendations how climate data should be licensed and shared; work with data providers to include the recommendations (licenses and metadata). The project will be finalised at the end of 2025. Contacted IPCC legal team. The planned to work together about working on how to provide information. They had a conversation but the work didn't move on. They were interested.

Communication strategy:

  • direct communication with the data providers.
  • difficulty to reach researchers. we work with the confederation of research data repositories. we would take the list of papers which could be deposited on a research repositores. we divided it by countires and institutions. each institution received the list of papers. so each institution would contact the researchers. we need to leverage existing networks.

Publications. they looked at the cited publication in the ICPP report. and they extracted them to see which are open or not. Probably more papers open now (2023).

Results of those projects. Open climate is a set of projects targeting the problem that publications and data are closed.

  • we gave to people already interested in climate change a call for action. If we talk to libraries we preach to the already converted but actually it is important to talk to the converted (who want to do something to tackle this problem - they know it is an issue and they want to do somethinga about it). We activating them.
  • we provided list of papers and they would contacted them (possibility to create specific tasks for several people)
  • we had a lot of attention from the open access community. Use your communty to grow

The campaign started in 2022 after the pandemic. a lot of publishers made publications open related to covid. We tried to reach out to publishers. We thought that climate change could be considered a challenge as the pandemic was. There was public pressure during the pandemic; with climate change is not the same, there isn't the same public pressure.

IPCC papers. 60% of the publications are open. around 30'000 papers. Green open access would be probably the most efficient way to do it. Authored accepted version. More efficient to contact the researchers. Changing the license is more a UN policy. rather than

[Iolanda] The Federico Leva case: writing to all researchers and inviting them to open their data - successful

  • use the email of a famous scientists
  • use the institutions
  • we would do the deposit
  • collection in Zenodo. Quicker

So far done with the Frontiers Planet Prize, plan was to scale

Tool How the tool can be useful for Creative Commons. We do not know much about what are the consequences of the licenses. Data related to the impact of licenses.

  • sources / references
  • reuse

AI is at the centre of the attention. Problems of Wikipedia, loosing traffic because of AI, problem of scrollers on infastructures. In the context of AI we fier that the communities related to open access and open science will move towards more restrictive licenses. They feel vulnerable. Looking at sciences. Making research accessible. Preprints. Working on research about how to upgread licenses for AI.

Given that AI falls under Fair Use, copyright is not a useful framework, we are looking at alternative frameworks to ensure content is used by AI appropriately


"AI is what it is because of Wikipedia"

"I think the commons is under threat, AI can undo the progress"


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