What is the role of Open Access and Open Educational

Resources within Distance Education ?

Jon GregsonStylianos Hatzipanagos

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Introducing Open Access

The Open Access Spectrum

The Open Access Debate

Examples from IDS

Survey responses on current status

Some conclusions to discuss

Suddenly Open Access is in the mainstream

Attribution Some rights reserved by James Cridland

The Open Access Spectrum

Open Content

Open Publishing: Gold = Journals, Green = Repositories

Open Data – reuse, revise, remix, redistribute

Open Educational Resources

Open Development

Open Licensing: Creative Commons Licensing - CC-BY is now the defacto standard for OA licensing (free to copy, distribute, display, perform, make derivative works, and make commercial use, but must give the original author credit)

Green…

AttributionNoncommercialNo Derivative Works Some rights reserved by ENOUGH Project

… Or the gold

Science Research Publication

"Scientific research is as much the product of the society that enables it, as of the individuals who author it." David Dorling, 2006http://www.worldmapper.org/

Open Access Debate “Access to publically funded knowledge is a

human right”

Changing the business model for research and education

Author Payment Charges (APC) model another exploitation ?

Researchers resistance to Open Access

ISI Impact factor and Alt-Metrics http://www.altmetric.com/whatwedo.php

AltMetrics (altmetric.com)

Open Access FundingAuthor Processing Costs (APCs) mean author must pay

to cover loss of subscription fees

UK Finch report - £30m/yr to pay for OA

RCUK and EU providing £ for OA

RCUK gives block grants to HEFCE institutions to cover APCs for Gold OA

Welcome trust withholds 10% of grants for non compliance

DFID – researchers must self archive within 6 months of finishing

OA: Examples from IDSOpenDocs: Institutional

Repositories

Federated Repositories – building capacity with Southern partners

Open Knowledge Hub Project

IDS Knowledge Services is an example of a non UoLIP institution that is providing open licensed materials of potential use to UoLIP and its students

Responses about our libraries

Does your library have any policies related to open access subscriptions?

5 YES, 6 NO

Are you developing a collection of recommended open access materials?

5 YES, 6 NO

Do you have an open licensed digital repository?

8 YES, 3 NO

If yes, what system does it use (Dspace etc)?

7 E-Prints, 1 Not Sure

Responses about our libraries

Does your college produce any open journals?

5 YES, 6 NO

If yes, how are these made available through your library?

Often, maybe not always, create catalogue record and links to full next

Added to Institutional Repository at roar.uel.ac.uk

Open Journals System platform, archived in the ePrints repository

Birkbeck Law Review (student led) - in print and link to open access site

Does your library provide training or support to staff on how to produce open licensed materials?

4 YES, 5 NO

Does your library provide training or support to students on how to produce open licensed materials?

2 YES, 5 NO

Do you have any plans to make open access materials more available via mobile technologies and tablet PCs?

5 YES, 6 NO

Do you think a collaborative scheme for drawing together an open access repository across the colleges involved in the UoLIP would be useful?

8 YES, 3 NO

Responses about our libraries

Does your library provide training or support to staff on how to find open licensed materials and assess their quality?

3 YES, 7 NO

Does your library provide training or support to students on how to find open licensed materials and assess their quality?

3 YES, 7 NO

Responses about our libraries

What is your opinion on the current quality and usefulness of open licensed materials? (Programme directors)

“All books should be available online. I am a strong supporter of Google's scanning program”.

“There are many good resources of information, including informal ones”.

“Variable. until there is a way of screening /rating that is robust difficult to recommend”

“MOOCs and open journals generally of very high standard in my experience”.

“I think that it is useful to use open licensed materials where possible but aware of them being carefully used in context”

Responses about our libraries

How do you promote your open access collection?

MARKETING via social media, emails

and RSS feeds Mailouts and blogs, at

conferences ,workshops, school committees and department meetings

via informal academic networks

Fliers and working closely with IT services and Dept Administrators

LINKING Research Online

(repository) Indexed to library’s

resource discovery tool: Summon

EthOS, http://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do

Open to Google Scholar TRAINING Information Skils Guides Online resources

Responses about our librariesWhat is your view on how significant open

access materials are likely to become in the next 5-10 years?

“would be significantly increased”.

“Indispensible”

“OA publishing will become part of the default”

“I think there will be increasing pressure to make research findings available”.

“With shrinking budgets, growing awareness of open access & research council funders mandating deposit, significance will grow - although unevenly across disciplines”.

“if the academics are changing their practice, so too must students be prepared to learn in this new research environment”

I think this will be hugely significant for us, and has both positive and negative implications.

Advantages of OA

Many students in developing countries, and libraries globally becoming more digital and serving people who are not physically present

Promotes access, availability and usage

Gain more feedback and engagement with readers, who can collaborate on ongoing development of ideas and resources

New ways to measure impact

Supports more effective ‘browsing’ – purchase not needed

Enables data mining as it allows simultaneous access to many articles

Some conclusions for ODL/HE Reaching a global audience, off campus and distance

students

Engaging with MOOCs – becoming a new driver

Rights and equity issues: How do they apply in UoLIP ?

Digital Repositories, Standards, Quality & Linkages – librarians, IT departments, course leaders and researchers need to work closely together

Build awareness of students, and make resources available as OA, e.g. data sets for ODL students to work on

Author open licensed ODL materials with references to open licensed research. Value citations of OA materials – markers can more easily access this

Plagiarism awareness !

Recognise and support and reward OA initiatives and systems