Transcript Open Access: A Story of Digitization and Copyright

Open Access: A Story of
Digitization and Copyright
Old Tradition + new technology =
public good
• Open Access is defined as “literature [that] is
digital, online, free of charge, and free of most
copyright and licensing restrictions” and “that
true open access involves removal of price
barriers and permission barriers;
• however, it has become acceptable to use the
term ‘open access’ when only the price
barriers have been removed and the
permission barriers remain.” (Open Access,
2009)
Green & Gold models
• Green model: Authors submit material to
institutional repository; cost of publishing
often covered by institution.
• E.g. Dspace. Note, not everything in
institutional repositories is free of copyright
restrictions.
• Gold model: Access is supplied by publishers
who often charge authors article processing
fee.
The dark side of OA
• Jeffrey Beall lists predatory publishers on his
blog Scholarly Open Access.
• He also provides Criteria for Determining
Predatory Open-Access Publishers.
Finding Material
Using Search Engines
• Use advanced search in Google or Flickr.
• Use Creative Commons.
– Go to Find Licensed Content on the Licenses tab.
Finding Material
Journal articles
• The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) offers “free, full
text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals,
covering all subjects and many languages.”
• OAIster is a database that harvests Journal Articles, Thesis and
Dissertations, Preprints, Book Chapters and Conference
Proceedings (among other things) from Institutional
Repositories and Open Access Journals around the globe.
• OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories) lets you
search the contents of the repositories listed in OpenDOAR for
freely available academic research information.
Journal articles continued
• NRC Research Press Journals offers free access to over
100,000 back files from 1951-2010.
• PubMed Central is a free archive of biomedical and life
sciences journal literature at the U.S. National
Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine
(NIH/NLM
• BioMed Central. BMC Health Services Research is an
open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers
articles on all aspects of health services research.
• Public Library of Science publishes seven peerreviewed open-access journals.
Finding Material
• Online books
• Project Gutenberg free books in the public
domain.
• Connexions is: a place to view and share
educational material made of small
knowledge chunks called modules that can be
organized as courses, books, reports, etc.
Content.
Online books continued
• Open Stax College OpenStax College texts can be
customized for your institution and then freely
distributed to your students. We will work with
you and our partners to make your institutional
adoption process as smooth as possible. Books.
• MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for
Learning and Online Teaching) is a free and open
online community of resources designed
primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher
education from around the world to share their
learning materials and pedagogy. Materials.
Online books continued
• cK-12 makes it easy for teachers to assemble
their own textbooks. Content is mapped to a
variety of levels and standards including common
core. You can start from scratch or build from
anything the FlexBooks library. Resources.
• Open Course Library, Washington State. Open
Course Library is a collection of 80 high quality,
free to use courses that you can download, remix
and use.
Online books continued
• The Orange Grove. The Orange Grove is a
large digital repository of open education
materials from Florida including open
textbooks.
• Open University. This is more about teaching
than a place for curriculum materials,
although some content can be used for
teaching. Content.
Online books continued
BC Campus
• Canada’s first official open textbook project is
led by BC Campus. This site is a collection of
resources, updates, events and discussions
about the process of creating open textbooks
and about Open Educational Resources (OER)
in general. Open textbooks.
Online books continued
• Flat World Knowledge publishes customizable
online books with various access options. All
options include note taking and highlighting
ability. Access is forever.
• FWK has recently gone from “free to
fair.”Online only is $19.95, downloadable is
$34.95, print on demand is $39.95 and
downloadable with print is $49.95.
Open Access Presses
• Athabasca University Press offers free PDFs of
their books, as well as the option to purchase
paperback or eBook formats. Some of these
books are licensed with an AttributionNoncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5
Canada Creative Commons license.
Finding Material
Videos
• Khan academy
how to use
• Has a library of over 4,200 videos on
everything from arithmetic to physics, finance,
and history and hundreds of skills to practice.
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