Embrace technology to avoid 'crisis of relevance'

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"[T]he annual conference of the Joint Information Systems Committee in London last week...also heard from Martin Bean, vice-chancellor of The Open University, who called for greater flexibility and open access to learning materials....Alma Swan, director of consultancy company Key Perspectives, said savings for universities setting up open-access repositories grew with the size of the institution. Martin Hall, vice-chancellor of the University of Salford, pointed to his institution's open-access repository, which Salford's academics have been ordered to use. "We didn't do it for the money but because we wanted to return to the notion of the university as a public institution," he said...."

Link:

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=411304&c=1

Updated:

04/22/2010, 09:28

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Tags:

oa.new oa.mandates oa.green oa.oer oa.uk oa.economics_of oa.savings oa.events oa.repositories oa.policies

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 18:55

Date published:

04/22/2010, 09:26