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"Open Culture: - A definition

A brief desciption of open culture and its relation to copyright laws in Canada and worldwide.

Creative Commons Canada

Site granting Creative Commons licenses to copyright holders in Canada.

freeculture.org

An international, chapter-based student organization advocating on behalf of the free culture movement.

RIP: A remix manifesto

NFB documentary by Brett Gaylor about copyright and remix culture.

Open Access Directory

The Open Access Directory is a wiki where the open access community can create and maintain simple factual lists about open access to science and scholarship.

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(Mis)Leading Open Access Myths

A response to many common (and misleading) arguments against open access from BioMed Central.

Create Change Canada

An educational initiative examining new opportunities for scholars and researchers in a digital environment.

OASIS: Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook

Training and resources for anyone interested in OA initiatives, including researchers, students and librarians.

Open Access Overview

A detailed introduction to Open Access by Peter Suber, a leading voice in the OA movement.

Right to Research Coalition

Find out how students can get involved in the OA movement and efforts to make scholarly research more accessible to everyone.

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/@openaccessnet/videos

Further Reading

Articles and Blog Posts

Beall, J. (2012). Scholarly Open Access [Web Blog]. Retrieved from: http://scholarlyoa.com/

Coonin, B. & Younce, L. M. (2010). Publishing in Open Access Education Journals: The Authors’ Perspectives. Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 29:118–132.
Accessible through TRU Library at: http://bit.ly/SZHHnb

Furlough, M. (2010). Open Access, Education Research, and Discovery. Teachers College Record, 112(10): 2623–2648.
Accessible through TRU Library. 

 

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Laakso M., Welling P., Bukvova H., Nyman L., Björk B. C. & Hedlun, T. (2011). The  Development of Open Access Journal Publishing from 1993 to 2009PLoS ONE, 6(6):e20961. Accessible through TRU Library.

Suber, P. (2004, December 29). A very brief introduction to open access [Web log post]. Retrieved from: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm

 

 

Suber, P. (2010, November 6). Open Access Overview: Focusing on open access to peer-reviewed research articles and their preprints [Web log post]. Retrieved from: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

 

 

Willinsky, J. & Alperin, J. P.(2011). The academic ethics of open access to research and scholarship. Ethics and Education, 6(3): 217-223. Accessible through TRU Library InterLibrary Loan program at: http://bit.ly/R3zLVP

 

Tutorials

Open of Course  

Open-Of-Course is a multilingual community portal for free online courses and tutorials. To fully utilize the site( forum etc) registration is necessary.

UNESCO's Open Access Curriculum for Researchers and Library Schools  

Contains a set of 5 modules for researchers and 4 modules for library schools.

FreeMind Tutorial (Video)  

Youtube video on using FreeMind Mind Mapping Software.

20+ Video Tutorials for Open Source Applications  

A number of video tutorials on open source applications.

Many Eyes Social Networking Tutorial  

Tutorial for IBM's Many Eyes Social Networking Data visualization application.

Visual Literacy  

"This e-learning site focuses on a critical, but often neglected skill for business, communication, and engineering students, namely visual literacy, or the ability to evaluate, apply, or create conceptual visual representations"