Open access & cIRcle: Scholarly Publishing in Context
1. Open Access & cIRcle: Scholarly Publishing in Context Barbara Sobol, Learning Services Librarian (Research) & Hilde Colenbrander, cIRcle Coordinator Centre for Teaching and Learning Conference UBC Okanagan, May 5, 2010
6. How do we convey that there is often a “hierarchy” of information?
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8. Evaluating information is a skill set Authority Bias (Political, Religious, Personal) Comprehensiveness Date Appropriateness Methodology Reliability of Sources Publisher – Status & Prestige Peer Reviewed Status and Prestige of Researcher/Author Affiliation(s) These are the kinds of criteria that students need to be taught. Many of these criteria are highly subjective and discipline specific.
64. For researchers – funding agencies and/or institutions are increasingly mandating open access of scholarly outputSource: Shearer, Kathleen. 2010. A Review of Emerging Models in Canadian Academic Publishing. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/24008
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66. Students develop an understanding of the information landscape – direct evaluative skills
67. Students begin to view themselves as creators – as having agency within academic publishing
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70. Discussing open access and changes to traditional publishing models – cIRcle can be used as a tool in this discussion
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72. Open Access as teaching tool Other Examples:Canadian Journal of Sociology ACME: International Journal for Critical Geographies DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals SSRN - Business RePEc – Working Papers in Economics arXiv.org – e-prints in Physics, Math, Computer Science