Andrews University Digital Commons @ Andrews University Library Administration and Marketing James White Library 10-19-2020 What is Open Access 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 Open Access Week? 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 Open Data 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 Creative Commons 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”.