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"OPEN ACCESS & cIRcle: SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING IN CONTEXTBarbara Sobol, Learning Services Librarian (Research) & Hilde Colenbrander, cIRcle Coordinator Centre for Teaching and Learning ConferenceUBC Okanagan, May 5, 2010Engaging students in the scholarly publishing processq Importance of evaluating online informationq Role of open access and cIRcleq Importance to teachingq Importance to learningWhat to make of information online?q How do we teach students the value of different types of information?q How do we convey that there is often a \u00E2\u0080\u009Chierarchy\u00E2\u0080\u009D of information?q How do we teach students that these evaluative skills are not only necessary for completing assignments but for interacting with the world of information?Evaluating information is not easyPeer Reviewed JournalNotable Publisher - SpringerJournal established in 1930Article is about oil and cancer rates in the Amazon in an area where locals have a $27 billion lawsuit against Chevron. The authors find no indication that oil pollution is linked to cancer in the region. In the acknowledgements of the article \u00E2\u0080\u0093 the study is funded by Chevron.Evaluating information is a skill setAuthorityBias (Political, Religious, Personal)ComprehensivenessDateAppropriatenessMethodologyReliability of SourcesPublisher \u00E2\u0080\u0093 Status & PrestigePeer ReviewedStatus and Prestige of Researcher/AuthorAffiliation(s)These are the kinds of criteria that students need to be taught. Many of these criteria are highly subjective and discipline specific.Potential approachesq Open Access provides a new/current avenue to broach the topic of information evaluation skillsq Librarians can directly address these issues through course/discipline specific instructionq Faculty can integrate evaluative skills into lectures/discussions/assignmentsWhat is Open Access?q Open access literature is:q Digital information made available free-of-charge on the webq Refers particularly to peer reviewed research articles and their preprintsq Not free to produceq OA started as a response to exponential journal price increasesq OA is a response to growing demands for public accountability for tax dollarsq OA makes scholarly information freely available around the worldWhat is cIRcle?q A web-based database for published and unpublished scholarly materialsq Openly accessible to anyone: creators must be acknowledged and properly citedq Supports scholarship by enabling the easy sharing of research findingsq Goal: To showcase UBC\u00E2\u0080\u0099s intellectual outputq Pilot project launched spring 2007q Full service spring 2009q cIRcle home page https://circle.ubc.caAre there other Open Access databases?q ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories) currently lists 1700+ repositories around the worldq Australia: 57q Brazil: 70q Canada: 56q Germany: 116q India: 55q South Africa: 22q UK: 171q USA: 331http://roar.eprints.org/Why contribute to cIRcle?q Increased visibility and readership around the worldq Improved indexing and hence findabilityq Search engines: Google, Google Scholar, Yahoo, etc.q Content harvesters: oaister.orgq Multidisciplinary inquiryq Serendipitous discovery and collaborationq Classroom teaching toolq Valuable recruiting toolq Stable URLs q Preservation and management of information assetsq Open Access mandates, e.g. CIHRWith acknowledgements to SMARTech at Georgia TechPublic Health in the 21st Century: the Open Source Outbreakq Public Health 2.0: Jennifer Gardy @ UBC\u00E2\u0080\u0099s TED Terry Talks http://www.terry.ubc.ca/terrytalks/2009/11/03/public-health-in-the-21st-century-the-open-source-outbreak-jennifer-gardy/q Comparison of H1N1 and SARS outbreaks in terms of scientific response:q Rapidly improving communications technologiesq Scientists\u00E2\u0080\u0099 changing attitudes: collaboration, open access to research results, open data sharingq When scientific information about the virus spreads faster than the virus itself, we can beat the virus!What can be contributed to cIRcle?q Digital materials:q Research papers: pre- or postprints, or published versions (depending on copyright) q Conference and workshop papers q Theses and dissertationsq Outstanding student projects (selected by academic units)q Unpublished reports and working papers q Books, chapters and sections q Datasets q Learning Objects q Multimedia and audio-visual materials q SoftwareWhat about copyright?q For materials deposited in cIRcle:q cIRcle requires a non-exclusive license to distributeq Copyright owner retains copyrightq If you are not the copyright owner, you need permission from the copyright owner/publisher to deposit your work in cIRcleq Note: Publishers\u00E2\u0080\u0099 Copyright Transfer Agreements/ Publication Agreements are critical!Why is Open Access important to researchers?q For authors \u00E2\u0080\u0093 open access broadens readershipq For governments \u00E2\u0080\u0093 tax payer funded research is available to publicq For institutions \u00E2\u0080\u0093 demonstrates output/impact/reach of universityq For researchers \u00E2\u0080\u0093 funding agencies and/or institutions are increasingly mandating open access of scholarly outputSource: Shearer, Kathleen. 2010. A Review of Emerging Models in Canadian Academic Publishing. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/24008How is Open Access relevant in a classroom?q Open access as a movement and as something \u00E2\u0080\u009Cnew\u00E2\u0080\u009D provides an opportunity to engage students in these discussionsq Students develop an understanding of the information landscape \u00E2\u0080\u0093 direct evaluative skillsq Students begin to view themselves as creators \u00E2\u0080\u0093 as having agency within academic publishingq cIRcle can be used as a tool in this discussionWhy is this important to teaching?q Evaluating information is a lifelong skill that university students should be competent atq Within university, strong evaluative skills will improve student work; both in understanding and gradesApproaches to teaching evaluative skillsq Directly addressing the issue of publishingq Discussing open access and changes to traditional publishing models \u00E2\u0080\u0093 cIRcle can be used as a tool in this discussionq Discussing the different values of informationOpen Access as teaching toolExamples from cIRcle:Electronic Theses & Dissertationshttp://hdl.handle.net/2429/17445http://hdl.handle.net/2429/12919Undergraduate Honours Essays http://hdl.handle.net/2429/23908http://hdl.handle.net/2429/7852Faculty Research Papershttp://hdl.handle.net/2429/19587Note: Scholarly level indicator, peer review indicator Open Access as teaching toolOther Examples:Canadian Journal of SociologyACME: International Journal for Critical GeographiesDOAJ - Directory of Open Access JournalsSSRN - BusinessRePEc \u00E2\u0080\u0093 Working Papers in EconomicsarXiv.org \u00E2\u0080\u0093 e-prints in Physics, Math, Computer ScienceOpen Access as learning toolq \u00E2\u0080\u009CStudents write differently \u00E2\u0080\u0093 and better \u00E2\u0080\u0093 when they write for other students.\u00E2\u0080\u009DCatherine Prendergast, UIUC http://www.eui.illinois.edu/methods.htmlq \u00E2\u0080\u009CNothing makes me strive for excellence more than knowing that anyone in the world could see my work.\u00E2\u0080\u009D (Andre Malan, UBC Undergraduate Student)Discussion pointsq Questions about open access?q Would you discuss open access in your classes?q Would you prefer a librarian to discuss/introduce these topics with your classes?q Do you think that these topics could provide a bridge to addressing evaluative skills with students?q Questions about cIRcle? q What benefits do you see for your students if they deposit outstanding projects in cIRcle?"@en . 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