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2. About Me Sarah Morehouse Librarian here since 2006 Specializing in instruction, interlibrary loan,copyright, Creative Commons, and Open EducationalResources Subject liaison for history, education, and business 3. What do you want to learn today? 4. Please jump in and ask questions! 5. Library resources Ebooks, electronic journal articles, images, videos, etc. Found in databases Subscriptions paid for with students tuition. Subject to: Copyright End user licenses that may be even more restrictive thancopyright. 6. What can you do with libraryresources? Log in and read/view Save it or print it for personal use only (if that is notdisabled) Email the permalink or paste it in your course You cant: Email a copy to a student Upload a copy to a web site or blog Upload a copy to your course (unless specifically allowedby the end user license) Ask a librarian! 7. Getting permission If you want to do something that the end user licensedoesnt allow, you need to get permission from thecopyright owner and pay royalties Usually about $0.30/page/student for articles and bookchapters 8. Finding library resources 9. Free resources Found on the web Just to be confusing, selected web resources areincluded in the library because they are academicallyvaluable Project Gutenberg PBS video Etc. Subject to copyright! 10. What can you do with freeresources Read/view (no log in required) Save it or print it for personal use only Email the link or paste it in your course You cant: Email a copy to a student Upload a copy to a web site or blog Upload a copy to your course 11. Educational/non-commercial use Ok to email a copy or upload a copy to your course aslong as it is for educational use and strictly not-for-profit 12. Getting permission If you want to do something more than that, you needto get permission from the copyright owner and payroyalties Web content owners may not be responsive to requests Some will be happy to give you permission at a very lowcost, but creative works and media are sometimesextremely expensive 13. Finding free resources 14. Open Content Also found on the web. Also some are included in the library. Also free. But theres more! 15. Open Content(Creative Commons) Copyrighted but the copyright owner gave everyone ablanket license to use their content under certainterms Creative Commons license 16. Creative Commons Works within copyright law to let the copyright ownergive users permission to Copy Share/distribute Sometimes make derivative works and share/distributethem 17. Creative Commons You always have to attribute the original source andlink back to it. Other possible terms: Non-commercial No Derivative Works Share Alike 18. What can you do with OpenContent? Read/view (no login required) Save or print (as many copies as you want) Email the link or paste it in your course Email the file itself, or upload it to your course, website, or blog Often make derivative worksThe word embed is too ambiguous! 19. Why is this important? Copyright gives the copyright owners (publishers) anexclusive monopoly. What they sometimes end up doing with thatmonopoly: Make the content too expensive for us to afford. Lock the content down so it cant be used the way weneed to. 20. Practical consequences (textbooks) The cost of textbooks per year is about 26% of the costof tuition per year. (U.S. PIRG) 70% of students have tried to complete at least onecourse without purchasing the textbook. (U.S. PIRG) Many students wait to buy their textbooks until theirfinancial aid check comes in. 21. Solution: Open Textbooks Several different models No cost to students Creative Commons license You can make copies, so you dont have to worry about itgoing away. You can make derivative works, so you can customize itfor your needs. 22. Open Textbook models1. Traditional Written and peer reviewed by experts Stable editions Basic unit is the book Either an ebook or an ebook plus multimedia and interactive materials2. Modular Written and peer reviewed by experts Stable versions Basic unit is the module Mix and match modules and revise/customize them to meet your needs3. Wikibook Written and edited by whoever is given access No stable version, but there is version control Basic unit is the page Great if you want your students to create the textbook for the course as asocial learning/constructivist exercise 23. Finding Open Textbooks 24. Teaching and Learning Developing courses and teaching involves a lot moredifferent kinds of activities than it used to. Subject knowledge is increasingly specialized. Technical skills are increasingly specialized. Demands on our time are growing out of control. 25. Solution:Open Educational Resources One persons effort can be magnified and harnessedon a bigger scale. Higher quality at less effort because division of laborallows specialization. Labor is already invested in creating materials onlytakes a little bit more to share them. Not as industrial as it sounds because theyre designedfor choice and customization. 26. Finding Open EducationalResources 27. Practical consequences(scholarly articles) Publishers often embargo content, which means the full-text wont be online for 1 or 2 years after it comes out inprint. The cost of journals is rising much faster than inflation. So much that many libraries have had to cut back on thebooks budget, and some have had to drop importantjournal subscriptions because theyre impossible to afford. Publishers provide online journals to libraries in bundlesrather than one by one, so libraries cant save money byskipping the lesser-quality or lower-priority titles. 28. Open Access Journals NOT Creative Commons Cant make or share copies, make derivative workswithout permission. But no cost to the library, no cost to the reader 29. Open Access models Green Road Author publishes in a traditional journal but retainscopyright OR negotiates permission to archive thearticle in a repository. The actual article, the pre-print, or the post-print? Gold Road Author publishes in a journal that is committed to OpenAccess free online access to all users from the momentof publication. Examples: Public Library of Science, JEP: eJournal of EducationPolicy, Journal of Applied Quantitative Methods 30. Finding Open Access journalarticles 31. Context of Open SUNY All revolves around lowering barriers to access anddegree completion for students. Free transfer of credits among colleges More, expanded, improved online learning Decrease cost of education for students Open Textbooks Open Access Journals Open Educational Resources and open licensing of academiccontent (Creative Commons) 32. Want to know more? Finding and then evaluating the quality/reliability ofthese resources? Creating and licensing Open Educational Resources? Publishing your articles under Open Access? Getting involved in writing Open Textbooks? 33. Any questions about todaysmaterial? 34. Any questions about the library?