Open Access: What's In It For Your Library?

Paid webinar sponsored by the Southwest Florida Library Network (SWFLN) to educate library professionals on OA principles and resources, Jan 2015

Transcript

1. Michael Rodriguez E-Learning Librarian Open  Access:   What’s  In  It  For   Your  Library?   A  SWFLN  Webinar   January  29,  2015  
2. Presenter   Michael  Rodriguez,  MLIS   E-­‐Learning  Librarian,  Hodges  University   Social  Media  Manager,  ALA_LITA     TwiBer  @topshelver   Linkedin.com/in/mrlibrarian   topshelvr@gmail.com  
3. Preview   Copyright  –  Open  access  (OA)  –  Open  licensing  –  Benefits  –     The  OA  movement  –  Challenges  –  Open  resources  –  Call  to  acPon  
4. Copyright  &  Fair  Use    
5. What  is  Open  Access?  
6. Open  access  resources  are  online  books,   arPcles,  images,  and  other  resources  that   anyone  can  read,  look  at,  or  download  for   free,  anywhere,  any  Pme.  No  insPtuPonal   affiliaPon  is  required  to  obtain  access.   Generally  these  resources  come  with   extensive  reusage  rights.   My  DefiniDon  
8. CreaDve  Commons  
9. Public  Domain   Generally  refers  to  works  whose  copyright   has  expired  or  has  not  been  renewed,  or   whose  creators  have  waived  all  rights  to   their  work.  Everything  created  prior  to   1923  is  in  the  U.S.  public  domain.  
10. Benefits  for  Libraries  
12. Benefits  for  the  Community  
13. The  Open  Access  Movement   Credit:  RomoloTavani,  Thinkstock  
14. Challenges   Generally   Lack  of  integraPon   Lack  of  awareness     Scholarly   Profiteering  publishers   Green  vs.  gold  OA   Quality  concerns  
17. Open  Scholarship  
18. Open  Medicine  
19. Open  Books  
20. Open  Images  
22. Favorites   SPARC:  hBp://www.sparc.arl.org   hBp://www.openaccessweek.org     hBp://www.doabooks.org   hBp://www.doaj.org   hBp://www.plos.org   hBp://dp.la   hBps://archive.org   hBps://librivox.org   hBps://openlibrary.org   hBps://commons.wikimedia.org   hBps://www.oercommons.org   hBps://www.edx.org  
23. What  You  Can  Do   Be  aware   Take  a  MOOC   Use  open  images  in  displays   Enhance  your  reference  skills   Grow  your  access  to  resources   Look  into  all  those  open  libraries   Reach  out  to  your  communiPes   Start  an  insPtuPonal  repository   Build  OER  into  your  teaching   Celebrate  Open  Access  Week  
24. Credit:  Flickr  user  Alan  Levine,  hBps://flic.kr/p/62n52f