by Caroline Winter | 27 September 2019 | English, Observations
Review, promotion, and tenure guidelines have been criticized by some as impediments to a transition to open scholarship (see The Film Paywall: The Business of Scholarship and Partner Response to Tri-Agency Statement of Principles on Digital Data Management). The Review, Promotion, and Tenure (RPT) Project analyzes RPT documents from universities in the US and Canada in order to determine how publishing in Open Access (OA) and closed-access venues are incentivized and how this incentivization affects open scholarship.
by Caroline Winter | 31 July 2019 | English, Observations, Observations and Responses
On April 17, 2019, the Government of British Columbia announced a $3.26 million investment in Open Educational Resources (OER) through BCcampus. The funding was announced at the Cascadia Open Education Summit held at Simon Fraser University’s Harbour Centre Campus. BCcampus is a provincially funded agency with a mandate to “provide teaching, learning, educational technology, and open education support to the post-secondary institutions of British Columbia” (“Our Mandate” n.d.).
by Caroline Winter | 24 April 2019 | English, Observations, Observations and Responses
Open Education Week celebrates and raises awareness of the global Open Education (OE) movement. It was founded in 2013 by the Open Education Consortium, a nonprofit organization that supports a global network of OE advocates.
by Caroline Winter | 3 April 2019 | English, Observations, Observations and Responses
On February 28, 2019, the University of California (UC) announced that it would not renew its subscriptions to Elsevier journals. UC is a public research university in California, USA, with 10 campuses across the state.
by Caroline Winter | 25 February 2019 | English, Observations, Observations and Responses
Generating discussion about scholarly publishing practices and supporting open access is precisely what Paywall aims to do. The film was directed and produced by Jason Schmitt, a filmmaker, journalist, and Associate Professor and Chair of Communication and Media at Clarkson University.
by Caroline Winter | 19 February 2019 | English, Observations, Observations and Responses
The Analysis & Policy Observatory (APO) is a member of the Canadian–Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship (CAPOS), a collaboration between the INKE Partnership and Australian-based partners that works toward greater engagement and capacity for open scholarship, internationally and locally. The Australian-based APO is a publisher of and repository for open access research and policy resources.
