Open Access, Diversity, and Inclusion โ€“ Erin Learns to Teach

Amyluv's bookmarks 2017-11-08

Summary:

"A few weeks ago, I went to an Open Access night held at the library. Sadly, it appeared that only my peers from another class and library personnel attended. In order to get open access more utilized and accepted, more people need to (1) know about it and (2) care about it. Open access refers to research published online that has no fees associated to them. These articles are available to anyone (with internet access) who wishes to read them, and are therefore a step in the right direction for making science available to a more diverse audience, and not solely to either academics or those with the financial means to purchase subscriptions. Currently, it appears to me that when people think of scientific journals, they typically think of those that are only available to journal subscribers. In this case, the publishers of the journal own the rights to all the articles they publish."

Link:

https://blogs.lt.vt.edu/erinleighvt/2017/11/06/open-access-diversity-and-inclusion/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป Amyluv's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.publishing oa.awareness oa.intro oa.lay oa.journals oa.rights oa.benefits oa.advocacy

Date tagged:

11/08/2017, 12:38

Date published:

11/08/2017, 07:38