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Since 7 October 2021, UK organisations have implemented open access policy and practice:

 This was facilitated by a functionality update to the collections database that enabled downloads based on copyright status. Aberdeen will publish all new digital surrogates of public domain works CC0 and review existing digital surrogates to clear rights for CC0 publication. The current volume of CC0 assets is 5,258. This number is expected to rise as rights clearance and new digitisation occurs. The website customisation was funded by a MGS (Museum Galleries Scotland) Small Grants Fund (up to £15,000 for accredited museums; £10,000 for non-accredited museums) and included training on Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons by Ian Watt from Code the City, an Aberdeen-based civic hacking initiative using technology and data for civic good. A worldwide functionality issue with the Wikimedia Commons batch upload tool has impacted Aberdeen’s ability to batch upload open assets. Even so, the 14 Wikipedia pages with Aberdeen images have received 1.2 million views since November. Aberdeen also received separate MGS funding for a large flatbed scanner enabling more efficient digitisation of 2D works. Updated website policies are forthcoming.

. The policy extends to low resolution images at 1200 pixels on the longest side. During a 2020 review of the Collection Information Policy, Manchester made the decision to apply the CC BY-SA licence to low resolution images. A rebuild of the main Gallery website will contain the updated policy upon launch in summer 2022. A provision on commercial licensing reads in the 2020-2023 reads: “Manchester Art Gallery seeks to create high quality digital reproductions of the objects it holds primarily for the purpose of preservation. The Gallery does not have a dedicated budget for creating these reproductions so whee possible the gallery will seek to commercially licence access to these high quality digital assets (where copyright allows) to provide income to support the gallery’s digital activities.”

Additional open GLAM activity documented after data collection includes:
 * Newham Archives and Local Studies Library – 100 CC BY-SA assets on Art UK.
 * Newcastle University Special Collections – 30 CC BY-SA assets on Europeana.
 * Public Record Office of Northern Ireland – 2,010 No Known Copyright Restrictions assets via Flickr Commons
 * Royal Collection Trust – 32 Public Domain Mark assets on Europeana.
 * Royal Photographic Society Collection at the National Media Museum – 243 Public Domain Mark assets on Europeana.
 * University of Cardiff Special Collections and Archives – 2,788 CC BY-SA assets on the Internet Archive.

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