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; Open Access 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.Dspace 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. Jeffrey Beallpredatory publishersScholarly Open Access He also provides Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers.Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers

Finding Material Using Search Engines Use advanced search in Google or Flickr.GoogleFlickr Use Creative Commons.Creative Commons – Go to Find Licensed Content on the Licenses tab.Licensed Content

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.”Directory of Open Access Journals 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. OAIster OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories) lets you search the contents of the repositories listed in OpenDOAR for freely available academic research information. OpenDOAR

Journal articles continued NRC Research Press Journals offers free access to over 100,000 back files from NRC Research Press Journals 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 PubMed Central BioMed Central. BMC Health Services Research is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of health services research. BioMed Central Public Library of Science publishes seven peer- reviewed open-access journals. Public Library of Science

Finding Material Online books Project Gutenberg free books in the public domain. Project Gutenberg 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. Connexions 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. Open Stax CollegeBooks. 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. MERLOTMaterials.

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.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. Open Course Library

Online books continued The Orange Grove. The Orange Grove is a large digital repository of open education materials from Florida including open textbooks. The Orange Groveopen textbooks Open University. This is more about teaching than a place for curriculum materials, although some content can be used for teaching. Content.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.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. Flat World Knowledge 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 Attribution- Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Canada Creative Commons license. Athabasca University Press

Finding Material Videos Khan academy how to use Khan academyhow 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.4,200 videoshundreds of skills to practice

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