ACRL/SPARC Forum (ACRL) | 2014 ALA Annual Conference
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Summary:
"Our community has worked hard to make a growing number of resources
open, from journal articles, to textbooks, to datasets. While this has
resulted in a robust body of open content, one question that commonly
arises is “How do I determine the quality of this content?”
New strategies for assessing the quality of open content are emerging
from different quarters. These strategies range from new methods of
peer review, such as open peer-review or post publication peer-review;
new methods of measuring impact, such as alternative metrics; and new
forms of annotation, such as data set annotation and open comments on
publications.
This forum will explore the challenges and opportunities of
evaluating open content, across disciplines and across resources types,
while identifying promising pathways to identify and use quality open
content ..."