The Canadian Museum of Nature does use a CC-BY license for their collection http://nature.ca/en/research-collections/collections/online-collection-data… National Gallery of Canada is full copyright - no open access (afaik) http://www.gallery.ca/en/about/about_faq.php#faqsection1507 The Canadian Museum of Science and Technology has made some of their work Open Access, although they do not assign CC licenses to the works. The have their own reproduction policy in place http://documents.techno-science.ca/ Canadian History Museum has a quasi-open access policy. Again, not specifically licensed as open access, but written into the terms of use on their site http://www.historymuseum.ca/about/#tabs From: "Sylvia Riessner" &lt;sylviar(a)educomm.ca&gt; To: "Amanda Coolidge" &lt;acoolidge(a)bccampus.ca&gt; Cc: Bcoep(a)mail.bccampus.ca, bcoel(a)mail.bccampus.ca Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2017 8:39:41 AM Subject: Re: [Bcoel] [Bcoep] Fwd: Announcing 375, 000 open images from the Met Museum (and a new way to find them!) Yes I saw that and applauded too. Went on a quick Google search to see if Canadian museums have anything similar (as I've encountered challenges in Public Domain use in the past but it was some time ago.) Found an interesting Michael Geist article from 2007 that talks about the challenges of using Public Domain images stored in museums and educational institutions in Canada - [ http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2007/05/museums-and-public-domain/ | http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2007/05/museums-and-public-domain/ ] but nothing more current yet - does anyone on this listserv know how Public Domain images are shared in public educational archieves, museums or whatever in Canada currently? Sylvia On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 7:33 AM, Amanda Coolidge < [ mailto:acoolidge@bccampus.ca | acoolidge(a)bccampus.ca ] > wrote: Great news!! Amanda Coolidge Senior Manager, Open Education BC campus | connect.collaborate.innovate. 120- 645 Fort Street | Victoria BC V8W 1G2 Tel [ tel:(250)%20818-4592 | 250-818-4592 ] | [ http://www.bccampus.ca/ | www.bccampus.ca ] Skype: coolidge.amanda Twitter: @acoolidge Open textbooks: open to change, free to use Over 200 B.C. Faculty are learning how to customize textbooks that also save their students money. Search the [ https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/ | BC Open Textbook Collection ] for a peer-reviewed book in your discipline. See the Resources and Contact dropdown links on open.bccampus.ca for the help you need. BQ_BEGIN Begin forwarded message: From: Creative Commons < [ mailto:info@creativecommons.org | info(a)creativecommons.org ] > Subject: Announcing 375,000 open images from the Met Museum (and a new way to find them!) Date: February 7, 2017 at 11:18:19 AM PST To: < [ mailto:acoolidge@bccampus.ca | acoolidge(a)bccampus.ca ] > Reply-To: Creative Commons < [ mailto:info@creativecommons.org | info(a)creativecommons.org ] > New digital works now available via our new search tool. 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