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by openly sharing their ideas and resources with a global audience. But educators can’t do it alone. They need political, financial, time, staff, and policy support to shift to, and fully realize, the benefits of Open Education.
5.7 | ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
More Background on Open Access
- “A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access,” by Peter Suber.
- This is a short description defining Open Access, research articles, Open Access repositories, archives, and journals: http://api.ning.com/files/JOi7zGa2fuzuS*bGstF4DkFDsquoaB8WAHtxNzkKpmGEJcUtvbArAaUG56hLkiZaT3jSnZf354VW573zjj25qhlUnRcN6POA/AverybriefintroductiontoOpenAccessA4.pdf.
- “Open Access Overview,” by the University of Minnesota Libraries.
- This is an introduction to Open Access, and specifically how it pertains to librarians. It also provides additional resources and information from SPARC about open access for librarians: https://www.lib.umn.edu/openaccess/open-access-overview.
- “Open Access Publishing: A New Model Based on Centuries of Tradition,” by the University of Washington Libraries.
- This is a brief introduction to Open Access publishing for librarians, and includes supplementary links to related guides for librarians regarding open access support: http://guides.lib.uw.edu/research/spoa.
- “Open Access Publishing,” by Berkeley Library Scholarly Communication Services.
- This provides information on open access, funding, and how open access scholarship fits into the framework of academic publishing: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/scholarly-communication/publishing/open-access-publishing.
- “HowOpenIsIt? A Guide for Evaluating the Openness of Journals,” by SPARC in conjunction with PLOS and the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association.
- Presented as a downloadable chart, this guide provides a means to identify the core components of open access and how they are implemented across the spectrum between “open access” and “closed access”: https://sparcopen.org/our-work/howopenisit/.
