This week, Open Access Week, we've been sharing a number of events and resources to celebrate free and open access to information.
In Cairns and Townsville we showed the movie Paywall, which explored the way publishers have been milking researchers and librarians for money, and put forward the case for Open Access publishing.
We told anyone who would listen to us about our Open Access Publishing guide, which gives researchers information and options about publishing their research in open and accessible publications.
And we welcomed a new Special Collection to the fold - the Sir Charles Maurice Yonge Collection, meaning that hundreds of books that used to be in a private collection are now able to be viewed by members of the public (and stay tuned to hear about digitisations from our Special Collections as we secure copyright permissions).
To cap off Open Access Week, we'd like to introduce you to our newest library guide:
Open Educational Resources (OER).
This guide is a teaching resource. It gives information about OERs and provides some guidance on where to find them and how to use them.
Open Educational Resources are books, journal articles, sound files, video files, study plans, lesson plans, entire courses, curriculums and MOOCs that can be accessed by students for free. When lecturers assign open textbooks for a course, it means students no longer have to worry about how they are going to pay for an expensive textbook. It cuts the cost of providing education, and it cuts the cost of gaining an education.
Open Educational Resources may completely revolutionise the way we study in the future. Want to learn more? Check out the guide.
In Cairns and Townsville we showed the movie Paywall, which explored the way publishers have been milking researchers and librarians for money, and put forward the case for Open Access publishing.
We told anyone who would listen to us about our Open Access Publishing guide, which gives researchers information and options about publishing their research in open and accessible publications.
And we welcomed a new Special Collection to the fold - the Sir Charles Maurice Yonge Collection, meaning that hundreds of books that used to be in a private collection are now able to be viewed by members of the public (and stay tuned to hear about digitisations from our Special Collections as we secure copyright permissions).
To cap off Open Access Week, we'd like to introduce you to our newest library guide:
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This guide is a teaching resource. It gives information about OERs and provides some guidance on where to find them and how to use them.
Open Educational Resources are books, journal articles, sound files, video files, study plans, lesson plans, entire courses, curriculums and MOOCs that can be accessed by students for free. When lecturers assign open textbooks for a course, it means students no longer have to worry about how they are going to pay for an expensive textbook. It cuts the cost of providing education, and it cuts the cost of gaining an education.
Open Educational Resources may completely revolutionise the way we study in the future. Want to learn more? Check out the guide.
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