Andrews University Digital Commons @ Andrews University

Library Administration and Marketing James White Library

10-19-2020

What is Week?

Margaret Adeogun

Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/library-admin

Part of the Library and Information Science Commons What is ? A global event promoting access to: • knowledge, • highlighting Open activities, and • promoting actions that will help make more scholarly and educational materials freely available to:

Teachers Students Researchers Public What is Open Access?

Books Articles Research data

FREELY AVAILABLE FOR YOUR RESEARCH AND STUDY☺

INSTRUCTORS “Open” means ‘free to use’ STUDENTS FOR WHO? + permission to modify, share, or reuse. RESEARCHERS Allows more people to benefit from more ANYONE information than every before freely available few or no No financial online restrictions obligations on reuse

Textbooks are expensive: Get creative! Open Access materials are the number one solution. Types of Open Access Resources

•Free educational • Data that can be resources for teaching freely used, re-used and research that can be and redistributed by used at no cost. Released anyone under an open license. • Show attribution •They save you textbook costs • Share with others Open Educational Resources

Open Source Open software Research • A research conducted in the spirit of free • Software that uses an access. It is made open development available to the process and is community to licensed to include evaluate, critique, the source code. It is reuse, and extend free to use 4 Cost saving on Your research can textbooks influence policy Practitioners can apply your findings

Benefits of Compliant with More exposure Open Access grant rules for your work

Taxpayers get The public can Increase in value for money access your findings Article/book citation Open Access Resources Benefits to Students

Easy They’re High Universal Wide and Free! Quality Access Coverage Convenient

▪ No associated ▪ Available to ▪ Peer-reviewed ▪ Available ▪ Cover all cost everyone ▪ Same standard as worldwide disciplines ▪ No subscription ▪ Interface user- traditional ▪ No geographical ▪ Support cost friendly textbooks restrictions interdisciplinary ▪ No textbook cost ▪ Access to current ▪ Published by ▪ Use them research ▪ Save on research experts anywhere and at ▪ Access to a large expensive ▪ Enrich the quality ▪ Affiliated to anytime variety of textbook of your research institutions ▪ Excellent for research ▪ Unlimited access and education. textbook online learning materials. to research ▪ Published by ▪ Make you better materials professors educated 6 What is Open Educational Resource? Open educational resources (OER) teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions. https://en.unesco.org/themes/building-knowledge-societies/oer

• Instructors, Students, Self-learners • Free online resources • They may be reused and/or customized. • They often use copyright licenses www.oercommons.org Universal sharing information and knowledge (ICT)

Information sharing for human development. 7 Open Sources – All Disciplines Open Sources Coverage DOAJ peer-reviewed journals in all disciplines https://doaj.org

DOAB Peer-reviewed books in all disciplines https://doabooks.org

Merlot access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools. https://www.merlot.org/merlot

Digital Public Library of brings together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them America freely available to the world https.//dp.la

SAGE Open social and behavioral sciences & the humanities http://sgo.sagepub.com

AERA Open publications from the American Educational Research Association http://ero.sagepub.com 8 Open Sources – STEM Fields

Open Sources Coverage Bentham Open: journals in science, medicine, technology and social sciences. https://benthamopen.com/

AcademicJournals journals in art and humanities, engineering, medical science, social sciences, biological https://academicjournals.org/ sciences, physical sciences and agricultural sciences.

Plos journals in science and medicine https://plos.org/

ACS Chemistry for Life agricultural and food chemistry, natural products , environmental science etc. https://pubs.acs.org/

Vadlo biotechnology methods, biosciences techniques, biochemistry lab recipes, biotech procedures http://vadlo.com/ for genetics, genomics and SNP genotyping experiments, microRNA arrays, tissue and expression microarrays, etc.

9 Open Sources – Arts, Humanities, SSCs

Open Sources Coverage Virtual Library of Musicology music and musicology

Bartleby.com reference, verse, and classic literature.

Electronic Text Collections in literary texts in Western European languages other than English.(WESSweb - European Western European Literature Literature - Electronic Texts)

Stanford Encyclopedia of online encyclopedia of philosophical concepts and philosophers written by leading scholars in Philosophy the field

EconBiz economics and business studies

IDEAS: Economics and Finance working papers, books and book chapters, and articles from peer-reviewed journals in Research economics. (REPEC - Research Papers in Economics) [1995 - present]

10 Open Access Libguide

Check the library guide for Open Access resources

https://libguides.andrews.edu/c.php?g=1058790&p=7695404

11 The AU Digital Commons is an Open Access repository that contains the scholarly works of faculty, students, and other Andrews University publications. You can search, download, and use the resources to support your • Class assignment • Research • Theses and dissertations

The AU Digital Commons is an Open Access repository It’s free for your use. Use it to your benefit https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/ What it is

SAGE Open is a peer-reviewed “gold” open access publication from SAGE What it Publishes

• Peer-reviewed journals • Original research articles

Web page: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/sgo Open access journals Open access ebooks https://about.jstor.org/oa-and- https://about.jstor.org/librari free/open-access-journals/ ans/books/open-access- books-jstor/ JSTOR Open Access Journals Prepared by: Margaret Adeogun, PhD Head of Patron Services & Marketing Liaison Librarian, COEIS Andrews University Ph: 269-471-3156 “Seek Knowledge, Affirm Faith, Change the World”