David Rapp has a new post relating what happened at the Open Data, Open Minds SPARC meeting. From the post:
The 2010 SPARC (Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition) Digital Repositories Meeting this week managed to combine serious talk about the challenges of open data, examining both successes and failures, with an efficient and informative showcase, the Innovation Fair, featuring rapid-fire presentations of tools and services from institutional repositories (IR).
Billy Brick has tweeted about a video from SPARC about open access. The three-minute video is meant to introduce viewers to the concept of open access.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, open access, SPARC
Ray English, Director of Libraries at Oberlin College has posted a webcast about Harvard’s Open Access policy. Participants included librarians and staff from twenty-six liberal-arts colleges. From the article:
The webcast featured Stuart Shieber, Professor of Computer Science at Harvard and director of the university’s new office of scholarly communication. Shieber was the chief architect of the open access policy passed by the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences in February 2008, and has been instrumental the passage of similar policies by the Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government…
In his webcast presentation Shieber outlined the reasons for Harvard’s adoption of its open access policy, including in particular the history of scholarly journal price increases and resulting problems in access to research literature.
Thanks to Gavin Baker at Open Access News for the link.
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Tagged higher education, journal, library, open access, SPARC
The SPARC Videoblog has posted a video of David Wiley presenting a brief introduction to Open Educational Resources to the SPARC-ACRL Forum in January. The presentation is only fifteen minutes long and is also available on Vimeo.
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Tagged higher education, oer, Open Education, openness, presentation, SPARC
