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Open Access: What Is It And What Does It Mean For Academic Authors?, C. Jeffrey Belliston Jun 2009

Open Access: What Is It And What Does It Mean For Academic Authors?, C. Jeffrey Belliston

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What is Open Access? The modern Open Access (or OA) movement has historical roots - some fairly recent and some much older. If one has a correct understanding of these historical roots, the OA movement will properly be seen as evolutionary rather than as revolutionary. In addition to this theoretical treatment of the "what is OA" question, a treatment of what John Willinsky has called the "flavors" of OA will elucidate the very practical side of the same question." What does OA mean for academic authors? Just as with the "what is OA" question, there are multiple sides to the …


Open Access: What Is It And What Does It Mean For Academic Authors?, C. Jeffrey Belliston Jun 2009

Open Access: What Is It And What Does It Mean For Academic Authors?, C. Jeffrey Belliston

Faculty Publications

What is Open Access? The modern Open Access (or OA) movement has historical roots — some fairly recent and some much older. If one has a correct understanding of these historical roots, the OA movement will properly be seen as evolutionary rather than as revolutionary. In addition to this theoretical treatment of the "what is OA" question, a treatment of what John Willinsky has called the "flavors" of OA will elucidate the very practical side of the same question." What does OA mean for academic authors? Just as with the "what is OA" question, there are multiple sides to the …


Open Educational Resources, C. Jeffrey Belliston May 2009

Open Educational Resources, C. Jeffrey Belliston

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Open Educational Resources (OER) were the topic of the ACRL-SPARC Forum at the Midwinter Meeting of the American Library Association in January." Textbook prices are a significant barrier for students. Most students still prefer print to online textbooks. How OERs can help this situation and what librarians can do to facilitate creation and adoption of OERs.


Tapping Utah's Scholarly Works, C. Jeffrey Belliston, Allyson Mower, Cheryl Walters Apr 2009

Tapping Utah's Scholarly Works, C. Jeffrey Belliston, Allyson Mower, Cheryl Walters

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Librarians from academic institutions in Utah talked about the institutional repositories (IRs) they have created to provide open access to the intellectual output of their faculty, staff, and students. Panelists provided an introduction to institutional repositories, considerations in choosing an IR software, workflow and copyright issues. They also highlighted some of the variety of materials in their respective IRs. 38 slides.