Open Access 2014

Open Access

Stian Håklev (CC BY) OISE, March 4, 2013

Four parts

• Traditional Open Access

• New forms of Open Access

• The power of Open

• Multiculturalism and Open

Traditional models

Journal publishing process

peer-reviewers

editor author(s)

readersjournal

copy editing layout

What? Why? How?

Self-archive (green)

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo

OA journals (gold)

Support funder mandates and funding for OA journals

Covers NSF, Ed, EPA, NASA, USDA, HHS, Commerce, Interior, Defense, Energy, Trans, DHS, Ag, State, Smithsonian

!Max 12 months embargo, covers both articles and data

Why?

Expanded access and lower costs for academics and researchers everywhere

Whether at top institutions, or community colleges,

whether in Beijing or Varanasi

Giving the broader public access to our research

Are the public really interested in access? A few examples...

Wikipedia is a great academic resource - as a starting point for further research

More and more learners are turning to open courses, and need open materials

20,000+ students accessed OA articles as part of their course

Enabling new forms of communicating and organizing scholarly output

OA makes articles more accessible, even for those who already have access

“One of the main points behind doing threads was to bring the companion papers together with the main papers. To make it work you needed to make all of the papers open access. This could just not be done without the papers being open access.”

A paper isn’t necessarily the best “unit of organization”

Adding meaning to articles, enabling knowledge to be mapped out

Can we do more?

MA thesis

Being an Open Scholar

Improves the quality of your research

Increases your connections, reach, opportunities

“Flattens” the world of academia

Don’t have to do all, but try some of it!

How do people find you?

It takes time, but quality content gets recognized

Comment on others’ blogs, retweet or answer Tweets

Conferences, hashtags

Don’t be so afraid of putting out unfinished work

Make it possible to “follow” you

Free  as  in  speech/beer

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creative  commons

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ccmixter

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flickr  cc

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Different  meanings  of  open

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the  story  of  a  seed

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a  story  enabled  by  openness

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Multilingualism as an asset

Toronto - “most multicultural city in the world” !

University of Toronto reflects that

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“Are we allowed to do that?”

Perspectives on bilingualism

Bilingualism as ... !

problem !

right !

resource

Student as...

user

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Ulib  telugu

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jingpinke  main

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egyan  tsp  list

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Student as...

user !

producer

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