1. Shireen Deboo Faculty Development 2013
Beyond the textbook: exploring open access resources providing context and overview
Thanks for being here. A few folks here to share info w/you today; I’m going to provide some history, background and global context for what OA is and how it might be a tool for you.
Shireen Deboo
Faculty Development
2013

2. “open access”—what does it mean?
Fairly generic term with different definitions in different contexts
OER, open source, free
Opposite of proprietary or fee-based content
--don’t confuse with “open source” which is about free software that anyone can use --often refers specifically to scholarly publishing through the open web --in our case, it’s about free educational content

3. Free ≠ open access
Free: anything you can find on the www Open access: anything you can find on the www that is not copyright restricted

4. How did we get here?

5. Cost of textbooks
Students of two-year public colleges spend, on average, $850 a year on textbooks. ¹
The cost of the average college textbook increased 186 percent between 1986 and 2004.²
¹¹“Tennessee Bill Seeks to Reduce Cost of College Textbooks,” Community College Week 18 June 2007: 21, 24 Feb Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. South Seattle Community College Library. <
²Alex Kingsbury and Lindsay Galloway, “Textbooks Enter the Digital Era; High-tech Options can Save Money and Boost Learning,” U.S. News and World Report 16 Oct. 2006, 25 Feb ProQuest Research Library. ProQuest. South Seattle Community College Library. <

6. problems with scholarly publishing
While the CPI increased 73% between , research library expenditures for serials increased 273%.
June 2010: Nature Publishing Group proposes 400% increase to University of California for its license for e-journals
source:
Chronicle of Higher Ed, 6/9/10
Scholarly publishing is largely controlled by corporate conglomerates, for whom academic journals are only one of their lines of business, not their primary mission.

7. more problems with scholarly publishing
publicly funded research remains in private/corporate control;
IHEs are double-paying: for the cost of research, and then to buy back the results of the research in journal articles;

8. So, what is the response to these challenges?

9. The World Wide Web happens:
Multi media/visual/audio/video opportunities
Collaborative ability
Editing capacity
Self-publishing capacity
Reduced costs of online access
Wikis, blogs, faculty webspace, professional association webspace…

10. Organizations like SPARC develop to address soaring costs of peer-reviewed journals published by multinational media corporations…
SPARC is an alliance of academic/research libraries working to promote open scholarly communication, and “correct imbalances in the scholarly publication system” through advocacy, education, and development of new models for sharing research.

11. Harvard faculty votes to make all scholarly publications available through
open access
This was February 2008; created a system where all published research is deposited centrally through the library, posted online and made available to the campus community and the public. Seen as a “breaking the floodgates” moment.

12. ROARMAP tracks OA mandates around the globe
83 institutions, 18 departments, includes MIT, Stanford, U Florida, Uvirginia, Kansas, Tennessee, Duke…
ROARMAP tracks OA mandates around the globe

13. A snapshot of the movement…MIT has been at the forefront, making its courses (lecture notes, reading lists, etc) available to the world. Hewlitt Foundation has helped support OA online efforts at a variety of institutions. Cape Town dec signed by over 2000 educators worldwide…supports initiatives like connexions and oer and esp advocates for the power of OA in low-resource nations and communities. SOFIA is one of the only community college OA initiatives I know of…foothill-de anza cc district, making courses available through one site.

14. So…what does all this mean for you?
More journal titles and scholarly research available without subscription or fee
Thousands of educators are creating, customizing and sharing educational content online, and you can use it for your students and classes.

15. Maybe you are looking for new classroom material on the Civil Rights movement.
Advanced search in social science.

16. You want new ways to teach a lesson on geodes. http://www. merlot
“igneous” with geoscience limit.

17. Looking for ways to present material on linear equations in algebra
connexions, limit to mathematics, then search for “linear equations”

18.
Might be wondering how you can share/use content while protecting your work. Most material online is under “creative commons” copyright---granting access while acknowledging the original creator. This is NOT an alternative form of copyright…it works within the confines of existing law to find open access solutions for those who want to use them.

19. “What surprises you most about how the Internet is used today?”
Vint Cerf is one of the unknown “inventors of the Internet”….worked for DARPA as a project manager, helped produce tcp/ip technology and the first systems. Was asked in an interview recently:

20. “The slow process by which education has made use of the Internet
“The slow process by which education has made use of the Internet.”¹ (Vint Cerf)
¹Snyder, Lawrence. Fluency with information technology: skills, concepts and capabilities. 2nd edition. Boston: Addison Wesley, Print.