Australian Digital Alliance Digital Forum 2014

1. Higher education and copyright: fair
use vital for the Australian policy
agenda
Roxanne Missingham
University Librarian

2. • The 21st century academic
• Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
and more
• Data – digital humanities, data recreation
• Copyright: fractures
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3. The 21st century academic
http://politicsjob.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/look-like-pro-clear-off-that-messy-desk.html
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4. Tenopir, C. (2013) Scholarly Reading in a Digital Age: Some things change, some stay the same. Presentation given at ANU.
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5. Porous boundaries
• Scholar needs
• When researchers cannot get hold of a
work in their library, 87% (US) and 90%
(UK) often or occasionally search for a
free online version. (Schonfeld)
Schonfeld, R. (2013) “The Space Between: Our latest Ithaka S+R Issue Brief pinpoints where US faculty members and
UK academics diverge and asks why?” http://www.sr.ithaka.org/blog-individual/space-between
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6. MOOCS and online learning
Reading: Libraries in the Time of MOOCs by Curtis Kendrick and Irene Gashurov
http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/libraries-time-moocs
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7. Kortemeyer, G. (2013) Ten Years Later: Why Open Educational Resources Have Not Noticeably Affected Higher
Education, and Why We Should Care. Educause review. http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/ten-years-later-why-openeducational-resources-have-not-noticeably-affected-higher-education-and-why-we-should-ca
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8. Four major hurdles for open education
resources (Kortemeyer):
– discoverability,
– quality control,
– bridging the last mile, and
– Acquisition.
Add strategy and sustainability
Kortemeyer, G. (2013) Ten Years Later: Why Open Educational Resources Have Not Noticeably Affected Higher
Education, and Why We Should Care. Educause review. http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/ten-years-later-why-openeducational-resources-have-not-noticeably-affected-higher-education-and-why-we-should-ca
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9. MOOCs
• A major theme “using resources on a
global scale”.
• sometimes resources freely available in
the US but not in other countries
• Our national agenda – copyright legislation
has failed to keep up
Davis, S. (2014) MOOCs and libraries: the good, the bad and the ugly
SCONUL. http://www.sconul.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/20_12.pdf
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10. Changing scholarly publishing
• Work arounds – new approaches to rights
– Open publishing – ANU Press – over 500
titles and 880k downloads per annum
– Now eText books
– Unglue it
– Knowledge unlatched
– Crowdsourcing eg Kickstarter, Pozible
– OAPEN
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11. englishharmony.com/information-overload/
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12. New forms of scholarship
• Data visualisation
• More coming
http://mashable.com/2010/07/21/twitter-moods-map/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blprnt/6281316931/in/set-72157627854698933/
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13. Policy objectives
• Open access (ARC and NHMRC
mandates)
• Data publishing
• Impact (Excellence in Research
Australia, competitive edge)
• Australia in the international environment
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