Institutional repositories : content and culture in an open access environment by 
The access principle : the case for open access to research and scholarship by 
Open source software and open educational resources : a pathway for teachers by 
Hacking capitalism : the free and open source software movement by 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.
Find out how students can get involved in the OA movement and efforts to make scholarly research more accessible to everyone.
Articles and Blog Posts
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: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01639261003742181
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 2009. PLoS ONE, 6(6):e20961. Accessible through TRU Library.
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.
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.
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.
"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"
