How Open is Open? Open Access versus Accessibility

Jennifer Ferguson, Simmons College Lauren Buckley, Simmons College

ACRL New England Annual Conference May 13, 2016

How Open is Open? Open Access versus Accessibility

A googolplex of

open access resources*

*OK, I might be exaggerating slightly…

How do you choose?

domain!

Really, it is...

Except this is how it looks to non-librarians…

…and we need to make it look

more like this.

What’s in and what’s out?

What’s the best* tool?

*Or easiest, cheapest, most readily available…

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Overcoming imposter syndrome

Approaching the learning curves

Finding the time

Lessons learned

Next Steps

Jennifer Ferguson jennifer.ferguson@simmons.edu

Lauren Buckley buckll@simmons.edu

Find it: http://simmons.libguides.com/19thCFictionOnline

Pictures!

Slide 1: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ca2987.photos.382182p Slide 4: https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday Slide 5: http://kottke.org/15/01/crazy-whirlpool-traffic-interchange-in-dubai Slide 6: https://walkoverstates.wordpress.com/category/indiana/ Slide 7: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35069707 Slide 8: http://www.jeffbullas.com/2015/08/04/16-irreplaceable-tools-content-marketers-make-content-unique/ Slide 15: By Dbx54 - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8363108 Slide 16: http://cdn.dexmedia.com/media/Untitled-design-4-640x537.png