Additional Resources
More information about Open Access and OER advocacy
A Very Brief Introduction to Open Accessby Peter Suber
- A short description defining open access, research articles, open access repositories, archives, and journals (places where open access content is shared)
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=digital_research_skills
OER and Advocacy: What Can Librarians Do?By University of Toronto Libraries
- Resources and information regarding how librarians can support OER adoption as well as some faculty perspectives on OER
https://guides.library.utoronto.ca/c.php?g=448614&p=3199145
Open Access Overviewby University of Minnesota Libraries
- An introduction to open access, specifically how it pertains to librarians. Provides additional resources and information from the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) about open access for librarians
https://www.lib.umn.edu/openaccess/open-access-overview
Open Access Publishing: A New Model Based on Centuries of Traditionby University of Washington Libraries
- A brief introduction to open access publishing for librarians including supplementary links to related guides for librarians regarding open access support
http://guides.lib.uw.edu/research/spoa
Open Access Publishingby Berkeley Library Scholarly Communication Services
- 关于开放获取，资金，and how open access scholarship fits into the framework of academic publishing
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/scholarly-communication/publishing/open-access-publishing
Academic Libraries and Open AccessBy Aaron Tay
- A substantial discussion regarding how open access publishing fits into the space of academic publishing at large and current issues surrounding open access
https://medium.com/a-academic-librarians-thoughts-on-open-access/academic-libraries-in-a-mixed-open-access-paywall-world-can-we-substitute-open-access-for-d30fa182cafd
Removing the Barriers to Research: An Introduction to Open Access for Librariansby Peter Suber
- A detailed description of open access for librarians that digs into some of the deeper logistics of how open access publishing works in practice
https://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/acrl.htm
Open access: The true cost of science publishing by Richard Van Noorden
- A discussion about the ethics of publishing, including how open access quells some of
these ethical issues and the practicality of free access to journals
https://www.nature.com/news/open-access-the-true-cost-of-science-publishing-1.12676
We’ve failed: Pirate black open access is trumping green and gold and we must change our approach by Toby Green
- A discussion of current issues in the realm of open access publishing and prescriptions
of how to make improvements to current models
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.1116/full
Open Access Overview: Focusing on open access to peer-reviewed research articles and their preprints by Peter SuberCC BY 3.0
- Article providing definitions, initiatives, and discussion surrounding open access,
including discussions regarding journals, repositories, cost models, and public interest
https://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm
Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science? By Stephen Buranyi
- Article discussing the ethics of the traditional academic publishing model and its impact
on the propagation of new research and scientific discovery
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science
Understanding Open Access: When, Why, & How to Make Your Work Openly Accessibleby Lexi Rubow, Rachael Shen, & Brianna Schofield at the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy ClinicCC BY 4.0
- An in-depth overview of open access and how to make your own work openly
accessible
https://authorsalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/Documents/Guides/Authors%20Alliance%20-%20Understanding%20Open%20Access.pdf
ROAR: Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policy by The School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton
- A review of existing open access policies including terms and details
- http://roarmap.eprints.org/981/
OER and Advocacy: What Can Librarians Do? By University of Toronto Libraries
- Resources and information regarding how librarians can support OER adoption as
well as some faculty perspectives on OER - https://guides.library.utoronto.ca/c.php?g=448614&p=3199145
Scholarly Communication Toolkit: Scholarly Communication Overview by Advancing Learning Transforming Scholarship at the Association of College & Research Libraries
- A toolkit to help librarians integrate a scholarly communication perspective into library
operations and programs, as well as prepare presentations on scholarly
communication issues for administrators, faculty, staff, students, or other librarians
http://acrl.libguides.com/scholcomm/toolkit/
More information about emerging models of Open Access publishing
Open In Order To…Accelerate Research and Scientific Discoveries by Timothy VollmerCC BY 4.0
- Article about the value of open access based on a recap of a Creative Commons Slack
chat about the importance of preprints for open access publishing
//www.familygiver.com/2017/10/25/open-order-accelerate-research-scientific-discoveries/
Q&A with PLOS co-founder Michael Eisen by Richard Poynder
- An interview with Michael Eisen about the costs and futures of open access publishing
- https://poynder.blogspot.ca/2017/10/q-with-plos-co-founder-michael-eisen.html
Participant Recommended Resources
CC Certificate participants’ recommended many additional resources through Hypothes.is annotations on the Certificate website. While Creative Commons has not vetted these resources, we wanted to highlight participant’s contributions here:https://certificates.www.familygiver.com/cccerteducomments/chapter/additional-resources-7/