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Open Your Research Without Opening Your Wallet, Janelle L. Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

Open scholarship promotes sharing and collaboration, increases readership, and amplifies impact. It is gaining traction as institutions, professional associations, and funding agencies encourage or require broad sharing of research results. Yet many authors believe that the only way to open their work is to pay publishers thousands of dollars for the privilege. Luckily for us, that just isn’t the case. Come hear about a range of ways to open your research without paying for the privilege! Lunch provided. (Limited seating, RSVP to jwertzbe@gettysburg.edu)

Open Your Research Without Opening Your Wallet, Janelle L. Wertzberger

Open Access Week at Gettysburg College

Open scholarship promotes sharing and collaboration, increases readership, and amplifies impact. It is gaining traction as institutions, professional associations, and funding agencies encourage or require broad sharing of research results. Yet many authors believe that the only way to open their work is to pay publishers thousands of dollars for the privilege. Luckily for us, that just isn’t the case. Come hear about a range of ways to open your research without paying for the privilege!

Lunch provided.

(Limited seating, RSVP to jwertzbe@gettysburg.edu)

Introducing Undergraduates To Open Access And The Power Of Collaboration Between Scholarly Communications And Instruction Librarians, Kristin Laughtin-Dunker, Annie Knight

Library Presentations, Posters, and Audiovisual Materials

Undergraduates are often left out of conversations surrounding open access. While they may not share the same concerns about publishing and prestige as faculty and graduate students, they do consume vast amounts of information, and thus can benefit just as much as those farther in their academic careers by knowing how to find, evaluate, and use open access resources. This presentation highlights a successful collaboration between the presenters in their respective roles as scholarly communications librarian and course developer to create and implement curriculum for a 3-unit information literacy course to teach undergraduate students about open access principles. Once the …

The Open Education Initiative At Umass Amherst: Seeking Alternatives To High-Cost Textbooks, Charlotte Roh

Charlotte Roh

As part of Open Education Week, this presentation was part of a panel of practical examples of open education in action. It includes an overview of the Open Education Initiative at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as well as some of the expected and unexpected consequences. Open Ed Forum: Opening Minds, Sharing Knowledge

Copyright, Fair Use, Creative Commons Licensing, Charlotte Roh

Charlotte Roh

These are slides from a workshop on copyright, fair use, and Creative Commons licensing for the Open Ed Forum at UMass Boston. It is an introducton to these concepts for the higher education environment.