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Open Access Campus Conversations Cohort, Amanda Y. Makula
Open Access Campus Conversations Cohort, Amanda Y. Makula
Copley Library: Faculty Scholarship
The Open Access Campus Conversations Cohort is a discussion series for faculty members across campus, representing a variety of academic disciplines and unique perspectives, that meets regularly throughout the course of an academic year. The cohort seeks to establish a community where faculty members who are interested in issues related to open access and changes in the scholarly publishing ecosystem can gather, share information, learn from one another, and take actionable steps to provoke positive change at their institutions. While many scholarly communications outreach efforts are isolated, individual, or one-shot activities, the Open Access Campus Conversations Cohort is designed to …
Scholarly Publishing Education For Academic Authors: Reframing The Library’S Instruction Role, Charlotte Roh, Gail P. Clement
Scholarly Publishing Education For Academic Authors: Reframing The Library’S Instruction Role, Charlotte Roh, Gail P. Clement
Digital Initiatives Symposium
Scholarly publishing has made great strides in fulfilling the vision of open access, with more journals and papers now freely available to read and reference on the Internet. Yet that achievement falls short of a truly global open, trusted, and reuseable scholarly record. What are the next steps in openness and the pain points in providing completely open scholarship? Education about the publishing process is still developing, particularly when the publishing infrastructure includes the same colonial systems and biases in academic research and publishing that persist throughout academia. These biases influence what gets published, who gets tenure, what research gets …