Registry of Open Access Repositories ROAR Growth map of repositories and contents, 1 Aug 2011 ROAR is a searchable international Registry of Open Access Repositories indexing the creation, location and growth of open access institutional repositories and their contents. ROAR was created by EPrints at University of Southampton in 2003. To date, 2500 institutional and cross-institutional repositories have been registered in ROAR.[1][2][3][4] ROAR's companion database, the Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies (ROARMAP), is a searchable international registry charting the growth of open access mandates adopted by universities, research institutions and research funders that require their researchers to provide open access to their peer-reviewed research article output by depositing it in an open access repository. References[edit] Jump up ^ Brody, T, Carr, L, Hey, JMN, Brown, A, Hitchcock, S (2007) PRONOM-ROAR: Adding Format Profiles to a Repository Registry to Inform Preservation Services.
Open-access Publishing & Educational Resources discussion is lively! Susan Edwards, Head Librarian, Education Psychology & Social Welfare Libraries and Margaret Phillips, Librarian at DOE facilitated a lively discussion today regarding Open Access Publishing & Educational Resources and shared with the group many useful links. Susan and Margaret shared a wonderful online resource for those of us who are interested in learning more about open content, open resources, and open publishing. Visit their Open Educational Resources in Higher Education library site for definitions, resources, copyright information, publishing, etc. The group talked a lot about the value of open access content. (Open Access can be defined as unrestricted online access to articles published in scholarly journals, books, or other texts.) See this wikpedia entry as a launching point for many definitions and usages. The question of, "Why not make your content available online to the widest possible audience?" Other resources shared that you may want to explore:
Open Access Project berkman interactive Book Talk: Peter Suber on Open Access The internet lets us share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at virtually no cost. We take advantage of this revolutionary opportunity when we make our work “open access”: digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. In this talk, Peter Suber — Director of the Harvard Open Access Project — shares insights from his new concise introduction to open access — what open access is and isn’t, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold.
Greenwich Academic Literature Archive - Greenwich Academic Literature Archive davidwiley.org The political consequences of academic paywalls - Opinion The suicide of Aaron Swartz, the activist committed to making scholarly research accessible to everyone, has renewed debate about the ethics of academic publishing. Under the current system, academic research is housed in scholarly databases, which charge as much as $50 per article to those without a university affiliation. The only people who profit from this system are academic publishers. Scholars receive no money from the sale of their articles, and are marginalized by a public who cannot afford to read their work. Academic paywalls are often presented as a moral or financial issue. The impact of the paywall is most significant in places where censorship and propaganda reign. Publishing as a means to freedom In 2006, I wrote an article proving that the government of Uzbekistan had fabricated a terrorist group in order to justify shooting hundreds of Uzbek civilians gathered at a protest in the city of Andijon. 'Shielded from the people who need it most'
Google Scholar Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and America's largest scholarly publishers, plus scholarly books and other non-peer reviewed journals. It is similar in function to the freely available CiteSeerX and getCITED. It is also similar to the subscription-based tools, Elsevier's Scopus and Thomson ISI's Web of Science. Its advertising slogan – "Stand on the shoulders of giants" – is taken from a quote by Isaac Newton and is a nod to the scholars who have contributed to their fields over the centuries, providing the foundation for new intellectual achievements. History[edit] Google Scholar arose out of a discussion between Alex Verstak and Anurag Acharya,[1] both of whom were then working on building Google's main web index.[2][3] Ranking algorithm[edit]
‘Free-Range Learners’: Study Opens Window Into How Students Hunt for Educational Content Online - Wired Campus Milwaukee — Digital natives? The idea that students are superengaged finders of online learning materials once struck Glenda Morgan, e-learning strategist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as “a load of hooey.” Students, she figured, probably stick with the textbooks and other content they’re assigned in class. Not quite. The preliminary results of a multiyear study of undergraduates’ online study habits, presented by Ms. Morgan at a conference on blended learning here this week, show that most students shop around for digital texts and videos beyond the boundaries of what professors assign them in class. “It’s almost like they want to find the content by themselves,” Ms. It’s nothing new to hear that students supplement their studies with other universities’ online lecture videos. Ms. But the study also highlights the challenge facing professors and librarians. They “don’t want to ask librarians or tutors in the study center or stuff like that,” she says. Ms.
PLOS Packages | Library Open-Source Software Registry Submitted by Peter Murray on Thu, 2015-05-14 10:17 Binder is an open source digital repository management application, designed to meet the needs and complex digital preservation requirements of museum collections. Binder was created byArtefactual Systems and theMuseum of Modern Art. Submitted by Nicole Engard on Sun, 2012-07-08 14:54 CollectionSpace is an open-source collections management application that meets the needs of museums, historical societies, and other collection-holding organizations. CollectionSpace is designed to be configurable to each organization’s needs, serving as a gateway to digital and physical assets across an institution. Submitted by acocciolo on Mon, 2015-05-04 08:55 FixityBerry is software that runs on a Raspberry Pi computer that runs fixity scans on all hard drives connected via USB. Submitted by porterolsen on Mon, 2013-01-28 13:10 BitCurator uses open source digital forensics tools to help collecting institutions manage born-digital materials.
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Go With The Flow According to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, great Web sites are not about navigating content, but staging experience. A compelling Web site transforms a random walk into an exhilarating chase. The key, says psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, is a finely tuned sense of rhythm, involvement, and anticipation known as "flow." Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced "CHICK-sent-me-high-ee"), a professor at the University of Chicago, has spent more than 25 years researching flow, a state of "intense emotional involvement" and timelessness that comes from immersive and challenging activities such as software coding or rock climbing. His work is studied by marketing specialists like Vanderbilt University's Donna Hoffman and Thomas Novak, who write that flow is "a central construct when considering consumer navigation on commercial Web sites." In books like Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention, Csikszentmihalyi explores the implications of flow for personal and societal evolution.
Putting the "Public" In Publicly-Funded Research Sometimes an idea is so blindingly, obviously good that you have to wonder why it hasn’t already been implemented. A few years ago, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) had an idea like that. Why not create a free, public, online archive of findings from research studies that were funded by Americans' tax dollars? Now the Obama Administration (specifically, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, or OSTP) is considering extending the policy to other federal agencies that fund academic research. Now, the public has an opportunity to show support for this innovative, common sense idea.
Considering College During a Recession? Think Again. Culture Teaching Strategies Flickr:BradleyGee “I’m going back to school.” It’s a common decision when someone wants a job promotion or a career change. And that’s especially the case during an economic downturn. But as the cost of college tuition skyrockets and the burden of student loans outpace other forms of consumer debt, going back to school might not be such a great plan. And that’s the case author Kio Stark is arguing. Helping independent learners build networks so they can access a professional or learning community. Stark’s book will join a number of others, including Uncollege‘s Dale Stephens’ Hacking Your Education (due out from Penguin in 2013) and Anna Kamenetz’s Edupunk Guide, which are making a similar argument: college may no longer be necessary. Stark’s own background makes this project particularly compelling. “College didn’t used to be about getting a job,” she said. In some ways, that’s easier said than done. Related Explore: Higher Education