Open Access

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Open Access

7 Things You Should Know About MOOCs II

June 11, 2013

A MOOC is a model of educational delivery that is, to varying degrees, massive, open, online, and a course. Most MOOCs are structured similar to traditional online higher education course…

Up and Away: Open Access in Portugal

May 6, 2013

Portugal stands out among nations that have embraced open access to scholarly communication because of its early adoption of institutional policies , creation of a network of reposito…

The PressForward Project and Scholarly Communication on the Open Web

February 21, 2013

A healthy ecosystem for scholarly communication requires a continuum from independently distributed work to postpublication peer review. With funding from the Sloan Foundation, the Roy Rosenzwe…

The Cost and Quality of Online Open Textbooks: Perceptions of Community College Faculty and Students

February 4, 2013

Proponents of open educational resources (OER) claim that significant cost savings are possible when open textbooks displace traditional textbooks in the college classroom. We investigated st…

ds106: Not a Course, Not Like Any MOOC

January 28, 2013

Alan Levine, an independent consultant ( CogDog.it ), currently teaches the open digital storytelling course ds106. Levine is an innovator in educational technology, previously working…

California Bill = Path Around Curricular Bottlenecks Through 3rd-Party Online Providers

March 13, 2013

As numerous mainstream and higher education media outlets have reported--for two, see the New York Times and Inside Higher Education --the California state senate president is pois…

Open Education Week, March 11-15, 2013

March 11, 2013

Open Education Week 2013 starts today! Here's the announcement from the Open Courseware (OCW) Consortium , which organizes the event: The second annual Open Education week will…

Napster, Udacity, and the Academy

November 12, 2012

Clay Shirky provides a thoughtful discussion in this blog on MOOCs and its early stages of possible disruption of higher education. Clay Shirky p…

Increasing Access to Federally Funded Scientific Research: Initiatives from the White House and the Congress

February 25, 2013

A new bill mandating Open Access to federally-funded research was just introduced into both houses of Congress.  Entitled the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research ACT (FASTR), it was i…

Massive Open Online Courses: Legal and Policy Issues for Research Libraries

October 22, 2012

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) raise significant legal and policy questions for research libraries, which are often asked to support the development of MOOC courses. These questions involve …