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For the past year, the Open Access Button has been working to integrate our service with library catalogs and interlibrary loan systems — to surface accessible copies of articles directly through library discovery systems and fulfill interlibrary loan requests instantly when accessible copies are available in repositories. We’re excited about the possibilities that this integration creates to bring interlibrary loan closer into researchers’ workflows, improve the number of articles available to users, and accelerate the speed at which users can access research all while saving libraries time and money.
Only when the bulk of research comes with funds to pay author-side fees will publishers feel comfortable moving to new open business models. But who should be responsible for paying these new autho...
At OER conference, speakers push for academic libraries to promote adoption Inside Higher Ed Another report, released as OER advocates gathered for the conference's first day on Wednesday, contained good news about student attitudes toward open...
Freedom of Information requests reveal substantial hikes in university outlay despite open access push. The amount of money paid by UK universities to subscribe to some large publishers’ journals has risen by almost 50 per cent since 2010, new data suggest. The finding is based on freelance requests under the Freedom of Information Act to more than 100 universities by Ben Meghreblian, an independent researcher, and Stuart Lawson, a research analyst at Jisc Collections. The researchers asked each institution how much it had spent over the past five years on subscribing to journals from seven of the largest publishers.
Digitising books collaboratively allows libraries to share the burden of preservation without jealously hoarding the same dwindling stock
According to a new report, a combination of factors have converged to make the use of open resources integral to campuses across the country.
Library directors at 66 liberal arts colleges on Friday called for academic libraries to reject licensing agreements with publishers that impose restrictions on how ebooks can be accessed and shared.
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) is pleased to announce that its Pilot Collection of 28 new books from 13 scholarly publishers will become Open Access. The KU Pilot Collection is the first step in creating a sustainable route to Open Access for Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) books. Support from a minimum of 200 libraries willing to participate in the KU Pilot was required in order to achieve this goal
Frederik. Questier E-learning and OER - primer for libraries, workshop for Lib@web international training program 'Management of Electronic Information and Digital Libraries', university of Antwerp, November 2013
EDUCAUSE Review Online MOOCs give librarians new opportunities to help shape the conversation about changes in higher education and to guide administrators, faculty, and students through these changes. To assume this role, librarians must understand the MOOCs landscape. Numerous stakeholders will have an interest in the massive intellectual property that ultimately resides in libraries' owned and licensed digital repositories. Studying and adopting technologies to manage and monitor MOOC usage of library resources will be essential to controlling access and tightening Internet safeguards.
Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) on Wed, Oct 2, noon Pacific (3:00 pm EST) for a free, open webinar on how libraries are leading the way with Open Courses, Open Educational Resources, and Open...
For enterprise developers to securely use code from open source libraries and frameworks, better open source code management is needed, according to expert Michael Cobb.
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So, let’s say I’m doing research on issues related to privilege and inequality. Google Scholar tells me there’s a an article on stratification in higher education that’s looks interesting. Here’ another one on how postcolonial theory can inform resistance to neoliberalism in universities. And ooh, this looks really interesting: digital inequality and participation in the political process. How great that academics turn their methods and theories to solving the problem of inequality. Too bad most people won't be able to read these articles.
Within the overall framework of UNESCO strategy on open access to scientific information and research and to take forward UNESCO’s leadership role in diffusing knowledge amongst its member states, UNESCO has developed a set of manuals to facilitate capacity building of library and information professionals and researchers
As massive open online courses move toward version 2.0, libraries are in a unique position to guide and support the future of blended learning.
University wants scientists to make their research open access and resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls
For some time, librarians have questioned the wisdom of agreeing to confidentiality agreements when signing expensive subscription licenses, but many publishers seem to think they’re essential to their business practices. In 2009, Elsevier even went to court to try and stop scholars finding out what a public universities was spending on Science Direct using Washingon state's open records law. The publisher’s argument that prices were a trade secret, and such secrecy benefited libraries failed to impress the judge, who dismissed their lawsuit with prejudice. Finally we’re seeing the fruits of FOIAs in a new article recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (Though it’s not open access yet, there’s coverage in The Guardian and supplementary tablesare freely accessible.) Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library-babel-fish/shocking-secrets-revealed-what-big-libraries-pay-big-deals#ixzz35ZgtpvwS Inside Higher Ed
It is true that it's difficult to keep up with all the applications out there, so I've compiled a great list of the top 5 open source tools for libraries. There was a time when working in the library I found it very frustrating (as many librarians do) that there were so few options for software that actually did what I needed. In libraries we're so used to there being this vendor=software model. Where one vendor controls a product and while there might be other similar products, they too are controlled by a vendor.
March 13, about how academic and research libraries are leading the way on Open Educational Resources. Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that either reside in the public domain or carry a license that permits their free use, sharing and adaptation by all users. From textbooks to course materials, videos to software, journals to digital collections, the creation and sharing of open materials can reduce the cost of textbooks, expand access to knowledge, and support student success. This webcast features three librarians who have been leading OER projects on their campuses. Each provides an overview of the project, discusses the impact achieved for students, and provides practical tips and advice for other campuses exploring OER initiatives. - See more at: http://www.sparc.arl.org/resource/libraries-leading-way-open-educational-resources#sthash.PXUzZfNa.dpuf
Libraries can and should support open education. It fits with librarians' professional support for access to information as a public good, the institutional mandate of academic libraries to support teaching and research, and the professional obligations of librarians in public libraries to support continuing education. But before libraries do so, it is useful to understand the open education movement as a whole, including some of the key challenges facing both OERs and MOOCs and how libraries are well positioned to help address these challenges. By taking a holistic approach, libraries can aid the movement to facilitate universal, affordable, quality education for the peoples of the world and ensure that institutions, faculty, funding agencies, and governments avoid pathways to open education that might prove detrimental to scholarship as well as to society as a whole.
Library Journal Opening Up | Next Steps for MOOCs and Libraries Library Journal Since LJ first covered massive open online courses (MOOC)s in May's “Massive Open Opportunity,” they have expanded in several directions in academic, public, and LIS...
Educators and institutions have a choice about who controls MOOC copyright, their ability to earn revenue and their MOOC user data.
The Open Education Initiative at UMass Amherst has demonstrated there are several ways to address the concerns students and parents have as they face an average of $1,168 per year for books and supplies.
D-Lib Magazine The rapid growth of Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in higher education has raised the question of what services libraries on campus can, and should, provide for these courses. One area in which librarians are frequently the source of advice and assistance is in providing copyright education and obtaining permissions to use copyrighted material, and there is now a pressing need to address those areas for MOOCs. This article describes the creation of a copyright and permissions service for MOOC instructors within the Duke University Libraries. Although the service has not been free of difficulties, and its success in actually obtaining permission for desired uses has been uneven, overall the response from faculty has been positive, and the libraries believe that this service is a fruitful and sensible way for them to support the MOOC phenomenon.
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