Open Access?

Open Access, Open Source, Open Data – What’s with all this “Open”!
Open Access, Open Source and Open Data are simply promoting the principle of “Openness” or:

· Open to contributions and participation
· Open and free to access
· Open to use & reuse w/few or no restrictions
· Open to indexing and machine readable
· From OPENNESS: CONTRIBUTE, ACCESS, USE By ACRL Workshop: Scholarly Communication 101 at http://www.scholcomm.acrl.ala.org/node/12

Open access literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. - Peter Suber, Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College. Why do you think there is such a push for “Openness”? What do you think about this principle? Agree or disagree…let us hear from all sides!

Scholarly Communication & what it is

What is Scholarly Communications?

It is the system of people, procedures, and tools through which the results of research and scholarship are registered, evaluated, disseminated, and preserved. The topics range from Open Access Publishing to Author Rights Retention to Digital Repositories. The library is interested in starting a conversation with everyone in the University community. As such, the library will be posting regular pieces that will discuss not only scholarly communications, but also the research support the library can provide.

So let’s start talking!