"Open minds": another way to access knowledge & share your ideas

Open Minds: Another way to access Knowledge and share your ideas

Maria PerifanouStylianos Mystakidis

What is open access?

“Open means that anyone can freely access, use, modify, and share for any purpose (subject, at most, to requirements that preserve provenance and openness).” Opendefinition.org

Why open access?

Enhance visibility & impact of research Speeds up publication process Allows others to build on your work Research paid by public funds => innovation,

prestige, funding

How to provide open access?

"Green" OA: Self-archiving Author archives an electronic copy of a peer-reviewed publication in an institutional or subject repository.

"Gold” OA: Open access publishing Authors publish their scholarship in open access journals or monograph series.

Best practice: always self-archive an OA version of your work, regardless if & where you publish.

Where & how to search for open access material for your PhD research?

http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en

http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/elearning_papers

Hands on session

PreparationIndividual workGroup work

Let’s work together _ gdocGetting prepared: Check our Twitter channel #jtelss15 to access the open minds gdoc

Step 1: Please add your information to the gdocs Form groups of 3-4 people

Let’s work together _ gdoc

Step 2: Individual Worka. Create your account (or login) in the Open

Education Europa portal (OEE) here

http://openeducationeuropa.eu/el/user/register

b. Join the JTEL Summer School Group in OEE

http://openeducationeuropa.eu/el/groups/jtel-federica-and-emma-summer-school-2015

Let’s work together _ gdoc

Let’s work together _ gdocCheck the Twitter channel #jtelss15 to access the open minds gdoc

Step 3: Group work A

Q1. Where can a researcher locate open access material/resources e.g. for a Phd literature review???

Example: Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) https://doaj.org/

Let’s work together _ gdoc

Let’s work together _ gdocCheck the Twitter channel #jtelss15 to access the open minds gdoc

Step 3: Group work B

Q2. How to share your research "safely" to open access databases? Do you know how to protect your research work?

Let’s work together _ gdocCheck the Twitter channel #jtelss15 to access the open minds gdoc

Step 3: Group work C

Q3. What open access collaborative spaces do/can you use to co-author research articles, research proposals etc.??

https://www.facebook.com/groups/EdDigEraConference/

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Thank you all!

Maria Perifanou [email protected]

Stylianos Mystakidis [email protected]

Where & how to search for open access material for your PhD research (2)?

https://www.openaire.eu/http://crln.acrl.org/content/76/6/306.full