Marygrove Library News

Announced on May 10:

2012 is a significant year for open education and open educational resources (OER). We are celebrating 10 years since UNESCO coined the term “Open Educational Resources.”

In joining the global celebrations, the OER Foundation will host a free online training workshop on OERs, Copyright and Creative Commons licensing.

When: 20 June -  3 July 2012 (to coincide with the UNESCO World OER Congress in Paris).
Where: Online
Cost: Free
Registrations for this celebratory online workshop are now open:  Register today to reserve your seat.

You can read more here (http://blog.oer.sbctc.edu/2012/05/registrations-now-open-for-ocl4ed.html) or download this PDF flyer for more information.

From the May 2012 issue of College & Research Libraries News:

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland has opened its Library and Archives to the public, granting scholars, and fans alike access to the world’s most comprehensive repository of written and audiovisual materials relating to the history of rock and roll. The Library and Archives houses a growing library collection that includes thousands of books, academic dissertations, periodicals, and sound and video recordings.

Begin your visit here: http://rockhall.com/library/

From a May 11 post at the Scholarly Communications @ Duke blog, written by Kevin Smith:

I think we have reached a point where we are no longer having to sell the idea of open access.  There is widespread acceptance that that is the way that all or most scholarship will be distributed in the near future.  The discussions we are having now focus on specific advantages of OA, like altmetrics, the mechanics of the transition, and the ways in which costs can be managed.

In this context I was delighted to see the recently released “Guidelines for Evaluating Work in the Digital Humanities and Digital Media” from the Modern Language Association… What is important here is not so much what the Guidelines say as who is saying it.  It is very important that the MLA, one of the oldest and largest scholarly societies in the U.S., is taking notice of the changes that are happening in scholarly communications.

Read more here: http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2012/05/11/of-groundhogs-and-sequoias/

From a May 14, 2012, post at Science 2.0:

The University of Luxembourg has agreed to actively participate in the Open Access initiative.

Through the signature of a collaboration agreement with the University of Liège (ULg), the University of Luxembourg hopes to inspire its researchers to use a pay-to-publish journal in order to attain the success that the ULg has achieved with ORBi , its digital repository.

This collaboration agreement will, through the transfer of knowledge and experience, strengthen the ties between the Universities, both partners in the University of the Greater Region project.  It will, above all, provide the University of Luxembourg with its own digital repository, ORBi ^lu.

The benefits of open access and repository tools are numerous. Besides the preservation aspects, it will increase access to what UL researchers are doing by making their scientific work more visible and more widely read and used.  By putting in place its own repository, ORBi ^lu , the University of Luxembourg hopes to significantly increase the worldwide impact of its scientific production and, in particular, to increase the number of citations of articles published by its researchers.

This increased visibility will open up, as well, new partnering opportunities. Once ORBi ^lu is in place – planned for the first quarter 2013 – the results of research performed at the University of Luxembourg will be available via a simple online search.

Read the entire post here: http://www.science20.com/news_articles/university_luxembourg_jumps_open_access-90021

From his April 10 blog post titled “World Bank to Introduce Open Access Policy,” Richard Poynder writes:

The World Bank has announced today that it is introducing an Open Access (OA) policy. This will mandate that World Bank research outputs and knowledge products are deposited in a newly-created institutional repository called the Open Knowledge Repository (OKR), which will be freely accessible on the Internet.

In addition, the Bank will become the first major international organisation to make much of its research output available under Creative Commons licensing. As a result, any user in the world will be able to read, download, save, copy, print, reuse and link to the full text of the World Bank’s work, free of charge.

Read more…