Posts Tagged ‘open access’
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Care, Code, and Digital Libraries: Embracing Critical Practice in Digital Library Communities
2019–02–20 | 1 commentTags: digital curation, digital libraries, digital publishing, digital repositories, digital scholarship, digital strategies, ethics of care, open access, open sourceIn Brief In this article, the author explores the necessity of articulating an ethics of care in the design, governance, and future evolution of digital library software applications. Long held as the primary technological platforms to advance the most radical values of librarianship, the digital library landscape has become a re-enactment of local power dynamics…
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In Pursuit of Equity: Applying Design Thinking to Develop a Values-Based Open Access Statement
2018–07–25 | 4 commentsIn Brief We wanted to rethink how our library supported open access, so we attempted to ask ourselves and our staff why they supported “open” and how they defined “open”. By unpacking our institutional and individual understandings of “open” using design thinking principles, we were able to not only create a strong and value-driven statement,…
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A Critical Take on OER Practices: Interrogating Commercialization, Colonialism, and Content
2015–10–21 | 8 commentsTags: colonization, inequality, learning objects, librarianship, open access, open educational resources, pedagogyPhoto by Flickr user arbyreed (CC BY NC 2.0) In Brief Both Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Access (OA) are becoming more central to many librarians’ work and the core mission of librarianship, in part because of the perceived relationship between openness and social justice. However, in our excitement about the new opportunities afforded…
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Randall Munroe’s What If as a Test Case for Open Access in Popular Culture
2015–04–08 | 6 commentsIn Brief: Open access to scholarly research benefits not only the academic world but also the general public. Questions have been raised about the popularity of academic materials for nonacademic readers. However, when scholarly materials are available, they are also available to popularizers who can recontextualize them in unexpected and more accessible ways. Randall…
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A radical publishing collective: the Journal of Radical Librarianship
2015–03–25 | 2 commentsTags: advocacy, capitalism, copyright, ethics, information ethics, journal, librarianship, neoliberalism, open access, outreach, politics, radical librarianship, radicalism, writingIn Brief: the Journal of Radical Librarianship is a new open-access journal publishing scholarly work in the field of radical librarianship. The focus on critical approaches to librarianship and anti-marketisation of information is reflected not only in our subject matter but in our publishing model, our licensing model, and our organisational practices. We hope to…
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Editorial: Open for Business – Why In the Library with the Lead Pipe is Moving to CC-BY Licensing
2014–09–10 | 3 commentsTags: open access, open publishingIn brief: Lead Pipe is changing our licensing from CC-BY-NC to CC-BY. Here, we explain why. by Editorial Board, Brett Bonfield, Ellie Collier, Erin Dorney and Coral Sheldon-Hess In the Library with the Lead Pipe has, since we began publishing in 2008, been run by volunteers with a desire to spread ideas for positive change as…
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Open Ethos Publishing at Code4Lib Journal and In the Library with the Lead Pipe
2012–12–12 | Comments Off on Open Ethos Publishing at Code4Lib Journal and In the Library with the Lead PipeIn Brief: The library world is deeply entrenched in the open ethos, yet there are few examples of library publications that engage in open editorial and peer review processes. In this article we discuss the challenges and opportunities posed by the open editorial processes used at In the Library with the Lead Pipe and Code4Lib…