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…

Add content

Get help!

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