Rachel Arteaga
Open Education Week seeks to "to raise awareness and showcase [the] impact of open education on teaching and learning worldwide." Participate in Open Education Week by looking at the list on online events. Find out more about open education and why it is important by reading Open Education Week's short introduction.
Rachel Arteaga
Don’t know much about Open Access? Here’s a quick rundown.
Traditionally, unless you pay for access, the system of communicating research is closed. In other words, it costs money to subscribe to academic journals and read the articles within. These subscriptions can cost individuals and institutions lots of money. OA offers a solution. It is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles combined with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment.
OA and OER both utilize open licenses and and are part of the larger open movement. Working in conjunction, OA articles may be used in the classroom as OER, or the findings from OA research may be used to author OER. Both OA and OER broaden access to knowledge and education by removing the barriers of cost and the ownership of information.
Research should be available to everyone. With OA anyone with an internet connection can benefit from and expand on OA research. Faculty can collaborate and communicate with people from around the world, opening up new avenues of research and exploration. Students, who lose access to high quality research when they graduate, always have access to OA materials.
Though you can find Open Access articles anywhere you have the internet, you can also find them through the Butte College library. The library subscribes to many quality Open Access journals including PLoS ONE, Nature Communications, Royal Society Open Science, and many more.
If you would like to find out more about Open Access, Open Educational Resources, or Zero Textbook Cost classes, contact Rachel Arteaga at arteagara@butte.edu.
A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
What Faculty Can Do to Promote Open Access
Adapted in part from Open Access, SPARC, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Rachel Arteaga
Rachel Arteaga
Welcome to Textbook Heroes, a blog where we highlight ZTC happenings at Butte College. Along with ZTC news, each month we will highlight a faculty member to learn some fun and useful information about their ZTC course.
Do you know a Textbook Hero you'd like to highlight? Email arteagara@butte.edu or wakimsu@butte.edu for more information.
It's Open Access Week! What exactly is Open Access? According to SPARC, "Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles combined with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment." To learn more you can read "A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access" by Peter Suber.
You can also participate in a number of international webinars or other events available throughout Open Access Week.
If you want to learn how to use open access in your classroom or research, you can contact Rachel Arteaga in the library at arteagara@butte.edu.
Open Access, SPARC, CC BY
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